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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invites you to 
 its annual René Cassin lecture\, which will be given by Professor Philippe
  Sands\, UCL Faculty of Laws\, Great Britain.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nPhil
 ippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a barri
 ster at Matrix Chambers\, of which he was a co-founder in 1999. He practis
 es as Counsel before many international courts\, including the Internation
 al Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. He sits as arbit
 rator in ICSID and other investor state disputes\, and on the Court of Arb
 itration for Sports.\n\nHe is the author of fourteen academic books\, incl
 uding Principles of International Environmental Law (4th edition\, 2018)\;
  of Lawless World (2005)\; and Torture Team (2008)\; and contributes to th
 e New York Review of Books\, Vanity Fair\, the Financial Times and The Gua
 rdian.\n\nHis latest book is East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Ag
 ainst Humanity and Genocide (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson)\, winner 
 of numerous prizes\, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford (Samuel Johnson) P
 rize\, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year\, and the
  2018 Prix Montaigne. It is accompanied by a BBC Storyville film\, My Nazi
  Legacy: What Our Fathers Did. He is now writing the sequel\, along with a
  ten part BBC podcast series\, The Ratline\, to be broadcast in Sepember 2
 018.\n\nHe is President of English PEN and a Vice President of the Hay Fes
 tival. You can follow him on Twitter at @philippesands.\n\nAbout the book
 \n\n[From the publisher] East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' an
 d 'Crimes Against Humanity' looks at the personal and intellectual evoluti
 on of Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht\, the two men who simultaneousl
 y originated the ideas of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity\,' both 
 of whom\, not knowing the other\, studied at the same university with the 
 same professors\, in a city little known today that was a major cultural c
 enter of Europe\, 'the little Paris of Ukraine\,' a city variously called 
 Lemberg\, Lwów\, Lvov\, or Lviv.\n\nIn this extraordinary and resonant boo
 k\, Sands looks at who these two very private men were\, and at how and wh
 y\, coming from similar Jewish backgrounds and the same city\, studying at
  the same university\, each developed the theory he did\, showing how each
  man dedicated this period of his life to having his legal concept - 'geno
 cide' and 'crimes against humanity' - as a centerpiece for the prosecution
  of Nazi war criminals.\n\nAnd the author writes of a third man\, Hans Fra
 nk\, Hitler's personal lawyer\, a Nazi from the earliest days who had dest
 royed so many lives\, friend of Richard Strauss\, collector of paintings b
 y Leonardo da Vinci. Frank oversaw the ghetto in Lemberg in Poland in Augu
 st 1942\, in which the entire large Jewish population of the area had been
  confined on penalty of death. Frank\, who was instrumental in the constru
 ction of concentration camps nearby and\, weeks after becoming governor ge
 neral of Nazi-occupied Poland\, ordered the transfer of 133\,000 men\, wom
 en\, and children to the death camps.\n\nSands brilliantly writes of how a
 ll three men came together\, in October 1945 in Nuremberg - Rafael Lemkin\
 ; Hersch Lauterpacht\; and in the dock at the Palace of Justice\, with the
  twenty other defendants of the Nazi high command\, prisoner number 7\, Ha
 ns Frank\, who had overseen the extermination of more than a million Jews 
 of Galicia and Lemberg\, among them\, the families of the author's grandfa
 ther as well as those of Lemkin and Lauterpacht.\n\nA book that changes th
 e way we look at the world\, at our understanding of history and how civil
 ization has tried to cope with mass murder. Powerful\; moving\; tender\; a
  revelation.\n\nCassin Lectureship\n\nThe René Cassin Lectureship is organ
 ized by the 91µ¼º½ÊÓƵ Faculty of Law. In 1988\, the Alliance Isréalite Univer
 selle established this Lectureship to mark the centenary of the birth of R
 ené Cassin\, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. The Alliance Isré
 alite Universelle is one of the oldest and most distinguished human rights
  organizations\, having been founded in Paris in 1860. René Cassin was its
  president from 1943 to 1969.\n\nWe have received accreditation by a recog
 nized provider for 1.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education for jurists.\n
 \nPlease note that while the location is wheelchair-accessible\, construct
 ion work around the Faculty and the closure of McIntyre garage have made r
 eaching our building more complicated. See our explainer on how to best re
 ach the Faculty\, which includes information for people with reduced mobil
 ity.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:East West Street and the Origins of Genocide & Crimes against Human
 ity: Looking Back\, Looking Forward |René Cassin lecture with Philippe San
 ds
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