Document Type
Article
Abstract
Restitution following mass dispossession is often considered both ideal and impossible. Why? This Article identifies two previously unnamed paradoxes that undermine the possibility of restitution: the time-unworthiness paradox and the collective responsibility paradox. After developing these ideas, the Article examines them in the context of a particularly difficult and intractable case of dispossession and restitution. The Article draws upon interviews with restitution claimants whose stories reveal the paradoxes of restitution.
Recommended Citation
Mark A. Edwards,
The Paradoxes of Restitution,
116
W. Va. L. Rev.
(2013).
Available at:
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol116/iss2/8
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