How to Accept German Reparations

How to evaluate German unification?

Abteilung „Sozialstruktur und Sozialberichterstattung“ im Forschungsschwerpunkt III Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) • Reichpietschufer 50 • D 10785 Berlin Telefon 030 25 491 0 Veröffentlichungen der Abteilung Sozialstruktur und Sozialberichterstattung des Forschungsschwerpunktes Sozialer Wandel, Institutionen und Vermittlungsprozesse des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für So...

Restorative Justice and Reparations

In her book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Martha Minow begins a chapter on reparations with a brief discussion of restorative justice. She characterizes restorative justice as seeking “repair of social connections and peace rather than retribution against offenders;” she describes it as “building connections and enhancing communication between perpetrators and those they victimized, and fo...

Contract Automata with Reparations

Although contract reparations have been extensively studied in the context of deontic logics, there is not much literature using reparations in automatabased deontic approaches. Contract automata is a recent approach to modelling the notion of contract-based interaction between different parties using synchronous composition. However, it lacks the notion of reparations for contract violations. ...

Representing the Race: Standing To Sue in Reparations Lawsuits

The fundamental problem raised by reparations, and particularly reparations litigation, is the question of how to apportion responsibility for historical wrongs. The most controversial harm targeted by reparations litigation is the enslavement of Africans and African Americans and the injuries consequent to that enslavement. The task faced by such litigation, therefore, is to construct persuasi...

Pollution and respiratory morbidity: how much do we accept?