Nicola Henry is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her central research interest is the relationship between politics and law and how this can be understood in relation to violence against women, trauma, collective memory and human rights.

• 1. Introduction: How the Past is Made to Matter  2. Traces of Truth: Collective Memory and the Law  3. A History of Silence: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials  4. Casualties of Law: Wartime Rape and War Crimes Courts  5. Trials and Trauma: The Impossibility of Bearing Witness  6. Wartime Rape and the Legacy of Law

'Nicola Henry has written an erudite and powerfully argued book about the role of law in constructing collective memories of sexual violation in wartime.' - Joanna Bourke, Gender & Development, Vol. 19, 2, July 2011'The book is well written and is great use to anyone interested in gender studies, war studies and legal studies or collective memory issues.' Rasa Balockaite, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Nicola Henry is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her central research interest is the relationship between politics and law and how this can be understood in relation to violence against women, trauma, collective memory and human rights.

• 1. Introduction: How the Past is Made to Matter  2. Traces of Truth: Collective Memory and the Law  3. A History of Silence: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials  4. Casualties of Law: Wartime Rape and War Crimes Courts  5. Trials and Trauma: The Impossibility of Bearing Witness  6. Wartime Rape and the Legacy of Law

'Nicola Henry has written an erudite and powerfully argued book about the role of law in constructing collective memories of sexual violation in wartime.' - Joanna Bourke, Gender & Development, Vol. 19, 2, July 2011'The book is well written and is great use to anyone interested in gender studies, war studies and legal studies or collective memory issues.' Rasa Balockaite, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Nicola Henry is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her central research interest is the relationship between politics and law and how this can be understood in relation to violence against women, trauma, collective memory and human rights.

• 1. Introduction: How the Past is Made to Matter  2. Traces of Truth: Collective Memory and the Law  3. A History of Silence: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials  4. Casualties of Law: Wartime Rape and War Crimes Courts  5. Trials and Trauma: The Impossibility of Bearing Witness  6. Wartime Rape and the Legacy of Law

'Nicola Henry has written an erudite and powerfully argued book about the role of law in constructing collective memories of sexual violation in wartime.' - Joanna Bourke, Gender & Development, Vol. 19, 2, July 2011'The book is well written and is great use to anyone interested in gender studies, war studies and legal studies or collective memory issues.' Rasa Balockaite, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania