Genocide Denials and the Law

Ludovic Hennebel is a Research Fellow at the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) and member of the Perelman Centre of Legal Philosophy of the Law School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he holds lectureship in human rights and legal theory. Ludovic Hennebel is the Executive and Faculty Director of the Magna Carta Institute, an independent research institute based in Brussels, specialized in global justice, human rights and international law. He is also a Global Fellow at the Law School of New York University, visiting professor at SciencesPo Paris where he teaches transnational law, human rights and Global Justice, and a member of the Alumni College of the Royal Belgian Academy. Thomas Hochmann is Research Fellow at the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne where he taught public law. He holds a Master's degree in public comparative law and writes a PhD on freedom of expression and holocaust denial in comparative law, supervised by Professor Otto Pfersmann. He won several awards for this research, including a scholarship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (2006) and the prize of the City of Paris for research on antisemitism and xenophobia (2010).

Few issues, even in the heavily contested realm of human rights, raise quite such complex and foundational questions as laws prohibiting the denial of genocide. This volume provides a fascinating array of insights into both how necessary and how fraught such laws are."

• PROF. DAVID FRASER (UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM); PROF. LAWRENCE DOUGLAS (AMHERST COLLEGE); PROF. ROBERT A. KAHN (UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS); PROF. KENNETH LASSON (UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE); MARTIN IMBLEAU (MONTREAL); THOMAS HOCHMANN (UNIVERSITY OF PARIS PANTHEON-SORBONNE)