East West Street : on the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" /
Sands, Philippe, 1960-
East West Street : on the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" / On the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" Philippe Sands. - First Vintage books edition. - xx, 425 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-409) and index.
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.
9780525433729 0525433724
Sands, Philippe, 1960- --Family.
Frank, Hans, 1900-1946.
Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Lʹviv.
International law--History.
Genocide (International law)--History.
Crimes against humanity (International law)--History.
East West Street : on the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" / On the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" Philippe Sands. - First Vintage books edition. - xx, 425 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-409) and index.
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.
9780525433729 0525433724
Sands, Philippe, 1960- --Family.
Frank, Hans, 1900-1946.
Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Lʹviv.
International law--History.
Genocide (International law)--History.
Crimes against humanity (International law)--History.