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Judicialising history or historicising law : reflections on Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt

O'Donnell, Therese (2011) Judicialising history or historicising law : reflections on Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 62 (3). pp. 291-320. ISSN 0029-3105

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Abstract

Examines the questions about the relationship between law and history, and the role of expert historian witnesses, raised by the Queen's Bench Division judgment in Irving v Penguin Books Ltd on whether the book "Denying the Holocaust" by Deborah Lipstadt defamed the historian David Irving by associating him with the Holocaust revisionist movement. Discusses how the court approached the assessment of Irving's historical methods and conclusions. Considers the significance of the case.

Author(s):	O'Donnell, Therese ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-717X
Item type:	Article
ID code:	35357
Keywords:	witnesses, legal history, evidence, genocide, racism, Law (General)
Subjects:	Law > Law (General)
Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Law > Law
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	28 Oct 2011 08:46
Last modified:	22 Jun 2019 00:19
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/35357
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