TY - BOOK AU - Collings,Justin TI - Scales of memory: constitutional justice and historical evil T2 - Oxford comparative constitutionalism SN - 9780191890963 (ebook) : AV - K3161 U1 - 342.029 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Constitutional history KW - United States KW - Germany KW - South Africa KW - Slavery KW - Law and legislation KW - National socialism KW - Apartheid N1 - This edition also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This monograph explores how the constitutional courts in the United States, Germany, and South Africa have invoked slavery, Nazism, and apartheid - three historical evils - as an aid in constitutional interpretation. It examines how the memory of evil pasts moulds constitutional meaning in the contested present UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858850.001.0001 ER -