UKLFI Charitable Trust held a webinar on  Holocaust Denial – what Role should the Law Play?  With Professor Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff on Monday 25 November 2024

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This webinar discussed Holocaust distortion in two perspectives: (1) “regular” distortion via memory laws and (2) current distortion in the context of the 7/10 pogrom and its aftermath. Can and should law be used to counteract such distortion and denial?

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More about the speakers:

Professor Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
She specialises in constitutional law, legal tools for fighting antisemitism, freedom of speech, vulnerable groups’ rights and legal governance over memory.
She has held numerous fellowships, including at the University of Cambridge, Yale University and the European University Institute.
She is co-editor and co-author of Constitutionalism under Stress (OUP, 2020) and Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (CUP, 2017)

Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister at 6 Pump Court Chambers and a frequent speaker on International Law. She has a law degree from Oxford University, qualified as a solicitor at Skadden, and subsequently gained an LLM from Tel Aviv University, focussing on public international law and the law of armed conflict.

She clerked for Miriam Naor, President of Israel’s Supreme Court, and was a Fellow at Columbia Law School’s National Security Program. Natasha is legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust.