Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of
transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study interrogates the history of the …

¿ Qué hacer con el legado de un dictador tras su muerte o caída? Esta memoria conflictiva
también incluye una herencia material, que va desde la tumba del autócrata a los lugares …

In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a
separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme …

Several years after the transition to democracy, positive attitudes towards the authoritarian
past are still observable in Portugal: the belief that the previous regime had more good …

Considering the recent challenges to democracies in Europe and beyond, the issues of
regime stability and change have become more important than ever. In this chapter, we …

The Revolution of 25 April 1974 had a strong impact on justice in Portugal. Initially, it can be
said that there was evidence of a process of democratisation involving the judicial structures …

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to
the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly …

Centred around three general claims–that law and collective memory influence each other,
in particular through the legal institutions of memory, that these intersections are heavily …

A Comissão do Livro Negro Sobre o Regime Fascista foi criada em Portugal, em 1977, para
investigar os abusos cometidos durante a vigência do regime ditatorial inaugurado em maio …

Em 1977 foi criada em Portugal, por iniciativa do Primeiro-Ministro do Partido Socialista
Mário Soares, a Comissão do Livro Negro. Esta comissão foi encarregada de investigar os …