Introduction: Beyond the legalist paradigm / Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson -- Memory culture and human rights: a new constellation / Andreas Huyssen -- Reparative claims and theories of justice / Janna Thompson -- The political field of reparations / John Torpey -- How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembrance / Jeffrey Blustein -- The politics of memory, victimization and activism in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Elazar Barkan and Belma Becirbasic -- Memories in transition: the Spanish law of historical memory / Patrizia Violi -- How can truth telling count as reparations? / Margaret Urban Walker -- Promoting historical justice through truth commissions: an uneasy relationship / Onur Bakiner -- Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire / Daniel Butt -- Historical dialogue: beyond transitional justice and conflict resolution / Elazar Barkan -- Memory, justice, and post-terror futures / Mark Pendleton