Historical abuse of children in institutional settings has increasingly been recognized as a
serious issue requiring redress and reparations for survivors. This article explores the …

Background Governments in multiple countries have established redress schemes to
acknowledge institutional responsibility for child maltreatment; to provide survivors with …

Over the last few decades, experiences of welfare institutions have emerged on the political
agenda. Experiences can be understood as lived or remembered events that happened to …

In the autumn of 1953, Clara's funeral in the small Danish province of Holbæk was held in
absolute silence. Her late husband, Carl, saw no need to “gather a crowd participating more …

Contract law is about alienation, about making strange, putting at a distance, transforming
into something else, fixing a price, making interchangeable with the currency of the realm …