Holocaust Denial and the Law: A Comparative Study - Softcover

Kahn, R.

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ISBN 10: 1349528307 ISBN 13: 9781349528301

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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From 1978-1996 Holocaust denial emerged as a major concern for the liberal democracies of Europe and North America. This period also saw the first prosecutions of Holocaust deniers. But these prosecutions often ran into trouble. Holocaust Denial and the Law relates how courts in four countries (Canada, France, Germany and the United States) resolved the dilemmas posed by Holocaust-denial litigation. It also describes how, in the United States, student editors had to decide whether to run ads denying the Holocaust. The book concludes that a given country's resolution of these dilemmas turns on its specific legal traditions and historical experiences.

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ROBERT A. KAHN earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. He also holds a law degree from New York University School of Law and spent a year in Berlin as a Social Science Research Council Berlin Program Fellow. His articles have appeared in Patterns of Prejudice and the George Mason Civil Liberties Law Journal. After receiving his Doctorate, Dr. Kahn taught comparative law and politics at Connecticut College. He is currently an Instructor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, USA.

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""Holocaust Denial and the Law" is a very fine and impressive piece of work that deserves a wide audience. The book is very well-written, meticulously researched, and well-organized: it reads like a book, something one can rarely say these days about academic publications. Kahn makes a substantial contribution to the field of Holocaust denial studies with this elegant text about comparative criminal procedure." -- Lawrence Douglas, Author of T"he Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust"
"Robert Kahn has written an important book on an important subject." --Anthony Julius, counsel for Deborah Lipstadt in the libel suit brought against her by David Irving

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1349528307
• ISBN 13: 9781349528301
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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