This article interrogates how law is used to make ‘official’ memory in transitional justice (TJ) contexts. It posits that law performs three key roles in the ‘making’ of memory after conflict and authoritarianism: visibility, definition, and judgement. Using insights from existing academic literature that has addressed TJ processes and mechanisms across geographical sites and time frames, it argues that law is central to memory making by rendering certain harms, victims, and victimizers either ‘seen’ or ‘unseen’, by categorizing certain actors and timeframes into binary groupings, and by judging particular actors and actions to be either morally good or morally bad. The decisions that law makes on each of these fronts, it is argued, are ultimately determined by how the prevailing post-conflict state wishes to have the divisive past understood in the present.

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法律、“当下主义”议程以及集体暴力后“官方”记忆的形成

本文探讨了在过渡司法 (TJ) 的背景下，法律是如何被用来制造“官方”记忆的。它假设法律在冲突和威权主义之后的记忆“形成”中发挥三个关键作用：可见性、定义和判断。使用现有学术文献中的见解，这些文献已经解决了跨地理位置和时间框架的 TJ 过程和机制，它认为法律通过将某些伤害、受害者和施害者“看得见”或“看不见”，对记忆的产生至关重要。行为者和时间框架分为二元组，并通过判断特定行为者和行为在道德上是好的还是在道德上是坏的。有人认为，法律在这些方面做出的决定，