This collection challenges established approaches to transitional justice by opening up new dialogues about the problem of assembling law's archive. By treating the law as an 'archive', this book trace the failure of universalized categories such as 'perpetrator', 'victim', 'responsible', and 'innocent' posited by the liberal legal state.

Stewart Motha, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Honni van Rijswijk, School of Law, University of Technology Sydney,

Australia.

1. Introduction 2. Storytelling and the Counter-Archive: Recollecting Hannah Arendt's 'Reflections on Little Rock' 3. Constitutions Are Not Enough / The Museum as Law's Counter-Archive 4. Re-placing the native on the land: law's archive and the preservation of Indian testimony on the 1970s development frontier in Canada 5. Archiving Victimhood: Practices of Inscription in International Criminal Law 6. Archives of Evil: Law, Gaze, and Body 7. Animating the Archive: Legal Sources and the New Materialisms 8. The Indian Ocean as Archive of the Present 9. Un-Remembering: Mistake and Apology in Ephemeral Performance 10. What hearings fail to hear: Testimony and law's counter-archive 11. Recycled Legality: Documents, Files and the Many Lives of the Paper State 12. Memory and Metaphor 13. The Figure of the Child and the Politics of Legal Responsibility 14. Weisheit der Zelle: Rethinking the concept of the political