Claude Liauzu (April 24, 1940 in Casablanca, Morocco – May 23, 2007), was a French historian specializing in the history of colonialism. He was an ardent critic of the French law of February 23, 2005 of the teaching of French colonial empires describing the colonization positively. He was professor at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris VII - Denis-Diderot). Works Colonisation. Droit d’inventaire, Paris, Armand Colin, 2004 External links C. Liauzu: Une loi contre l’histoire Text of the law Université de Paris VII - Denis-Diderot Obituary 1940 births Academic staff of the University of Paris 2007 deaths French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians 20th-century French male writers