"One of the key elements that Felman claims marks a landmark trial is the way it repeats elements of other trials. The landmark trial is a site of memory, a moment of legal intertextuality in which key elements of the drama of law are reenacted."
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Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). âHistory, Memory, and the Lawâ. University of Michigan Press. p.15
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