New Publication from Prof. Wilke
Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor , of the Department of Law and Legal Studies, recently teamed with Lena Foljanty (Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany) to co-edit a special section, “Critical Inheritance: National Socialism, Law, and Memory” in the German law journal Kritische Justiz (Critical Justice).
The special section engages with the journal鈥檚 own history of unearthing the involvement of the German legal profession in the crimes of National Socialism. The articles in this collection offer a variety of fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on the politics of memory, law, history, and professional identities. Professor Wilke contributed an article on ghosts in the German Supreme Court and translated an article by historian Devin Pendas on a murder in Berlin during the last days of the war and its legal aftermath.
Citation:
Christiane Wilke, 鈥淐ritical Inheritance: The Presence of the Past in German Transitional Justice鈥 [Kritisches Erbe: Die Gegenwart von NS-Rechtsbeugungsfaellen in den BGH-Urteilen zur Rechtsbeugung von DDR-Richtern], Kritische Justiz Vol. 46 (2013).