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To identify universal and unique characteristics of national legislation and judicial practice regarding official remembrance policies and the legal codification of historical events.

July 6, 2022Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative LawOpen Access

The Official Remembrance Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Legislation and Judicial Practice of Modern States

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To identify universal and unique characteristics of national legislation and judicial practice regarding official remembrance policies and the legal codification of historical events.
Application of chronological and descriptive methods to chart the adoption timeline and contemporary prominence of memory-related legal acts.
Employment of formal legal and comparative legal methodologies to evaluate regulatory frameworks and judicial decisions across modern foreign states.
Use of legal modeling to design an appropriate framework for the statutory implementation of state remembrance policy.
States legally institutionalize historical events under three conditions: when an event defines statehood and ideology, when societal experience demands official statutory consolidation, or when international interpretations diverge from the national narrative.
Modern official remembrance legislation focuses predominantly on memorializing world wars, barring the revision of World War II outcomes, redressing colonialism and racism, and characterizing civil wars as national tragedies.

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Comparative legal analysis reveals key drivers of official remembrance policy across modern states, highlighting legal mechanisms used to codify national historical narratives.

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Dorskaya et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0971a44b13cba792513685 https://doi.org/10.12737/jflcl.2021.061

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Comparative legal analysis reveals key drivers of official remembrance policy across modern states, highlighting legal mechanisms used to codify national historical narratives.

The Official Remembrance Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Legislation and Judicial Practice of Modern States

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The Official Remembrance Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Legislation and Judicial Practice of Modern States

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