Martha Minow

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Martha Minow is the sooth Anniversary University Professor and former dean of the Harvard Law School. She has been globally honored as an expert in law, human rights, and responses to violence, beginning with her work with the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and the Imagine mostrar mais Coexistence program for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. mostrar menos

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Obras de Martha Minow

Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (1990) 53 cópias

Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover (1993) 38 cópias

When Should Law Forgive? (2019) 33 cópias

Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge In Liberal Democracies (2002) — Editor — 24 cópias

In Brown's Wake (2010) 21 cópias

Frug's Women and the Law (1992) 20 cópias

Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law (1997) 18 cópias

Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (2002) 16 cópias

Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002) 12 cópias

Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference (2008) 9 cópias

Saving the news : why the Constitution calls for government action to preserve freedom of speech (2021) 6 cópias

Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and the Law (1993) 3 cópias

The First Global Prosecutor: Promise and Constraints (2015) 3 cópias

Upstanders, whistle-blowers, and rescuers (2016) 2 cópias

Daedalus, Winter 1993: America's Childhood 2 cópias

Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (Aspen Casebook Series) 1 exemplar(es)

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The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Contribuinte — 88 cópias

Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (Critical America) (2006) — Prefácio — 26 cópias

Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America (1997) — Prefácio — 18 cópias

A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy (2019) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 2 cópias

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When Should Law Forgive? de Martha Minow

Short book about law and forgiveness. Good but I guess I hoped for a little more. Forgiveness is not really a legal concept, although Minow makes a good case for how law could be better if it could better incorporate aspects of forgiveness. She had a very interesting discussion about “child soldiers” in conflict zones and compared them to very young gang members here at home. How do you respond to victimized and traumatized children who commit atrocities? And how do you respond to their victims?

I wish she had spent a bit more time fully defining forgiveness. I guess next up for me is to read this piece at my favorite philosophy reference site: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/forgiveness/

Minow ended her book with a beautiful quote from Paul Boese: “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”… (mais)

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steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |

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