ABSTRACT
Throughout this first part of the thesis, the term “collective memory” has been used in a number of contexts. I have analysed sociology’s proliferation of various approaches towards it, meant to describe every potential phenomenon of memory, philosophy’s attempts to fit in collective memory within its various theories without directly engaging with it, and law at the crossroads as to how approach it, both politicising and ignoring it, most often without acknowledging its presence not only when its forces come into play, but even when it would be beneficial for law itself.
