1 Sol Iustitiae Setting. Slavery by Utrecht Law Professors in Learned Law; 2 Batavian Freedom – On the Tacit Acceptance of Slavery in Dutch Law; 3 Can Justice Unleash? An Investigation into the Means of Transitional Justice that the Netherlands Can Deploy for the Processing and Recovery from the Slavery Past and the Liability of the Dutch State for Damages from the Slavery Past; 4 Does Time Heal All Wounds? An International Human Rights Law and Natural Law Analysis of Reparations in the Netherlands for Slavery in the Context of Transitional Justice; 5 ‘Not a Full Stop, but a Comma’. The Reparation Program for the Dutch Slavery Past in Light of the Field of Transitional Justice; 6 Jan Ackersdijck against Slavery – A Mission with Method between Law and Economics; 7 Disrupting the Silent Legacy. Slavery and Criticality in the UU Law School; 8 Follow the Money: A Legal Historical Analysis of the Compensation Provisions in the Dutch Emancipation ActSlavery was legal, in conformity with the law in force in the former colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, until abolition on July 1, 1863. Seldom is it shown more clearly that the law as it stands may indeed be unjust and utterly abject. The consequences work their way through, which does not surprise at all. Precisely the academic institution that has law and justice as its domain, the law faculty, should be concerned with this past and with its relationship to the institution of slavery. How did the Utrecht law faculty, its professors, students and alumni relate to slavery? A dozen students and four supervisors researched aspects of this relationship. This book reports on that bewildering past and present. The editors and authors are associated with the Utrecht University Law School as professors and students.