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Lessons On Law And Regret From U.S. History

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published February 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM EST
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  In Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History, Steven W. Bender examines how the United States’ collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior.

We regret slavery and segregationist Jim Crow laws. We eventually apologize, while ignoring other oppressions, and our legal response to regret often fails to be transformative for the affected groups.

Originally aired February 2015.

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