Legal responses to Holocaust and genocide denialDo we not believe in the power of history anymore? Reactions to the European legislation.DIIS Senior Researcher, PhD Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, chaired a panel on ”Legal Responses to Holocaust and Genocide Denial” at the international conference in The Hague, 60 Years Genocide Convention, December 7-8, 2008. The conference gathered legal experts and historians to discuss different aspects of the convention, and thus also the relation between law and history. At the panel, “Legal Responses to Holocaust and Genocide Denial” the European legislation on denial was commented and discussed by Prof. Dr. Johannes Houwink ten Cate, Amsterdam, and Prof. Dr. Hagen Fleischer, Athens, both in favour of legal responses to denial. Dr. Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke raised the question whether criminalizing denial, and particular Holocaust denial, could be seen as a sign of decreasing believe in the power of history, as also suggested recently by Harvard law Professor, Alan Dershowitz. For more on the conference, click here Papers from the conference will soon be available, including the introduction by Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, “Do we not believe in the power of history anymore? Legal Responses to Holocaust and Genocide Denial”. |
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