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event • Fellows' Presentation

Should Law Foster Forgiveness?: Child Soldiers, Sovereign Debt, and Alternatives to Punishment

  • Wednesday, November 8, 2017
    4 PM ET
  • Knafel Center
    10 Garden Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138
Headshot of Martha Minow
Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Martha Minow's current work considers whether and when legal systems and rules should promote forgiveness. When people violate criminal laws, fail to pay debts, or run afoul of immigration laws, should law promote forgiveness by those who have been harmed? When should governments pursue amnesties, pardons, or alternatives to legally authorized sanctions? What should be unforgiveable? Looking at issues within the United States and at international debates over sovereign debt and treatments of child soldiers, the project considers legal, historical, religious, and cultural resources.

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Martha Minow speaks at a podium in front of an audience.

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