Inga Markovits (born 1937 in
Germany
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) is an American
lawyer
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, and The Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair, at the
University of Texas
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.
She is the recipient of the 2012 Ellen Maria Gorrisen
Berlin Prize and is a Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin
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.
Works
*'' Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary'', Oxford University Press, 1995, ; Clarendon Press, 1995,
*
*"Selective Memory: How the Law Affects What We Remember and Forget About the Past. The Case of East Germany", 35 ''Law & Society Review'' 513, 2002
* "Justice in Lüritz", 50 ''American Journal of Comparative Law'' 819, 2002
References
External links
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*https://archive.today/20121211163954/http://www.utexas.edu/law/magazine/tag/inga-markovits/
*http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/markovit.htm
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120426001301/http://wmlawreview.org/files/MARKOVITS.pdf
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American lawyers
University of Texas faculty
Berlin Prize recipients
Living people
1937 births
American women lawyers
American women academics
21st-century American women