We are extremely pleased to announce that the book Criminalizing Holocaust Denial in the EU: Compendium on 27 Member States, is out now in open access. The Compendium is one of the outputs of the project Mnemonic Reality: Investigating Memory Laws’ Impact on Reality and Reality’s Impact on Memory Laws.
The Mnemonic Reality project is a two years project funded by Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany), under the program Next – Law Between Normativity and Reality. This project is developed by an interdisciplinary team of young researchers from the Academy of European Human Rights Protection (University of Cologne – Germany), the Centre for Global Studies (Open University – Lisbon, Portugal), and the Memory and Justice Research Centre (Mykolas Romeris University – Vilnius, Lithuania).
This new Compendium aims to collect, translate to English and provide an overview on the current state of criminal Holocaust denial legislation of all 27 Member States. Being the first endeavor of this kind, it pursues primarily four goals: first, it aims to provide an EU-wide comprehensive empirical basis for further comparative research on Holocaust denial bans and memory laws more generally. The compendium is therefore kept deliberately descriptive. Second, it seeks to inform policy makers at the national and EU level about the existing rules in (other) EU Member States and their application. Thus, the compendium serves as a source of inspiration for national policy regarding possible regulatory techniques of denial bans. It also helps EU policy makers to assess to what extent states have implemented the EU FD 2008 regarding Holocaust denial. Thirdly, it seeks to broaden legal practitioners’ and the general public’s knowledge about Holocaust denial legislation, which is crucial for a critical and informed discourse about memory politics and law within the EU space. With its linkage to public education about the Holocaust as such, the compendium finally aims to contribute to providing a basis for a world in which memory laws such as Holocaust denial bans may no longer be necessary.
Out now, open access, at: https://mnemonicreality.eu/compendium/
