Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
Abstract
The French National Assembly's adoption of a bill penalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide (October 12, 2006), later followed by the German plan to outlaw genocide denial throughout European Union, stoked the vigorous French debate on the connection between genocide denial and law and, more generally, between history and law. The main criticism expressed by the detractors of laws against negationism - in particular historians - is the following: penalization of denial constitutes a violation of freedom of expression and, as such, represents a threat to democracy.
Disciplines
Communications Law | Constitutional Law | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | First Amendment | Human Rights Law | Law | Law and Race
Recommended Citation
Sévane Garibian,
Taking Denial Seriously: Genocide Denial and Freedom of Speech in French Law,
9
Cardozo J. Conflict Resol.
479
(2008).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjcr/vol9/iss2/17
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