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The 13th annual
Henry Morris Lecture in International
and Comparative Law
Law and Remembering: Socialism
in
East Germany and its Impact
Today
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Inga Markovits
Professor of Law and the Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair, University
of Texas
School of Law
Tuesday, September 26, 2000
12:00 p.m.
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams
Chicago,
IL 60661-3691
(312) 906-5090 for more information
Law and Remembering: Socialism
in East Germany and its Impact Today
In this year’s Morris lecture, Professor Markovits
will
examine the ways in which the socialist experience in the former German
Democratic Republic affects the operation of law in Germany today.
She shows how public memories of the past are constructed by political
choices and how law plays important roles in the process of selecting what
images of the past are used. Professor Markovits examines the ways
in which history is written by the winners in the former socialist states,
how law is part of that writing, and how that process influences law in
such states today. Her focus will be on the German experience, but
she will relate her claims to the experience of post-Socialist states generally.
Inga Markovits has been a professor of law at the
University of Texas School of Law since 1993. She was named to the
Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair in 1996. Educated at the Free
University of Berlin, Cornell University, Yale Law School, and the London
School of Economics, Professor Markovits holds the degrees of Dr. jur (Free
University), and LLM (Yale). She has been a visiting professor at
Fordham Law School (Spring, 2000), a visiting scholar at the Zentrum für
Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany, and a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She is the
author of numerous articles on civil law in East Germany, German family
law, and socialism and the rule of law for leading journals in Europe and
North America. She is the author of IMPERFECT JUSTICE. AN EAST-WEST
GERMAN DIARY (Oxford University Press, 1995) and is currently writing JUSTICE
IN LÜRITZ, a local history of East German law reflected in the work
of one socialist trial court and the experiences of its users.
The Henry Morris Endowment
This program is funded through the Henry Morris Endowment.
An 1889 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Henry Crittendon Morris
(1863-1948) enjoyed a distinguished career as an international lawyer and
diplomat. During 25 years of foreign service prior to World War I, Mr.
Morris served as the United States Consul in Ghent, Belgium, and as secretary
to Chief Justice Fuller at the Permanent International Court at the Hague.
When the war broke out, he returned to Chicago to coordinate Red Cross
and Liberty Loan campaigns on behalf of the American war effort.
Mr. Morris was a member of the American Society of International
Law and a number of other organizations devoted to improving international
relations. He was the author of The History of Colonization from the
Earliest Times to the Present Day (1906). The French government made
him a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1937.
The Public is Cordially Invited
to Attend the Lecture
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