ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 introduces the first of three elements of the new framework for the understanding of law and memory’s intersections, the concept of legal institutions of memory, i.e., those institutions of law that attempt to impact the social perceptions of the past the most, dividing them into soft, medium, and hard, depending on the degree of their direct impact on memory. Six such institutions are recognised: two soft (reparations, both material and symbolic, and international tribunals), two medium (lustration and truth and reconciliation commissions), and two hard (legal amnesia and memory legislation).
