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East West Street On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

"A ... personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolutio...

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Main Author: Sands, Philippe, 1960- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sands, Philippe, > 1960- > Family.
Frank, Hans, > 1900-1946.
Genocide > History.
Genocide (International law) > History.
Crimes against humanity > History.
Crimes against humanity (International law) > History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine > Lʹviv.
International law > History.
Biographies.
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Summary:"A ... personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of "genocide" and crimes against humanity," both of whom not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professor, in a city little know today that was a major cultural center of Europe, "the little Paris of Ukraine," a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv ... Sands ... realized that his own field of international law had been forged by two men--Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht--each of whom had studied law at Lviv University in the city of his grandfather's birth, each of whom had come to be considered the finest international legal mind of the twentieth century, each considered to be the father of the modern human rights movement, and each, at parallel times, forging diametrically opposite, revolutionary concepts of humanitarian law that had changed the world."--
Item Description:Maps on lining papers.
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."--Title page verso.
Physical Description:xii, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-409) and index.
ISBN:9780385350716
0385350716
1474601901
9781474601900
1474603556
9781474603553
9780525433729
0525433724
Author Notes:Philippe Sands was born in 1960 in London. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving his B.A. in 1982 and his LLM, first class honours in 1983. He finished his postgraduate studies at Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. He has held positions at numerous distinguished universities around the world. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985. He has written numerous academic and general nonfiction books, newspaper articles, book reviews, and more. His books include Lawless World, and Torture Team. In 2016, he won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.

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