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Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as author of the books ''Denying the Holocaust'' (1993) and ''The Eichmann Trial'' (2011). She is currently the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lipstadt-deborah.html )〕 She received her BA from City College of New York, and her MA and PhD from Brandeis University. Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994 she was appointed by Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, serving two terms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ''News & Publications'' "> Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (11/22/05) )〕 ==David Irving libel suit== (詳細はDavid Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books for libel in an English court for characterizing some of his writings and public statements as Holocaust denial in her book ''Denying the Holocaust''. Lipstadt's legal defence team was led by Anthony Julius of Mishcon de Reya while Penguin's was led by Kevin Bays and Mark Bateman of Davenport Lyons. Both defendants instructed Richard Rampton QC while Penguin also instructed Heather Rogers as junior counsel. The expert witnesses for the defence included Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans, Christopher Browning, Robert Jan van Pelt, and Peter Longerich. Although English libel law puts the burden of proof on the defendant rather than the plaintiff, Lipstadt and Penguin won the case using the justification defence, viz. by demonstrating in court that Lipstadt's accusations against Irving were substantially true and therefore not libelous. The case was argued as a bench trial before Mr Justice Gray, who produced a written judgment 334 pages long detailing Irving's systematic distortion of the historical record of World War II. ''The Times'' (April 14, 2000, p. 23) said of Lipstadt's victory, "History has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory."〔(Holocaust Denial On Trial: Holocaust Denial and the 2000 Libel Trial in the U.K. ), a project of The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deborah Lipstadt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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