![]() ![]() ![]() He delineates how these approaches to justice and prevention in the face of unprecedented human cruelty, despite commonalities rested on different views of notions of rights. Sands begins by drawing distinctions between these two seminal concepts that emerged during World War II and the Nuremberg trial process. Sands examines the personal and intellectual evolution and travails of these two men in a brilliant account that reads as part history, part human rights theory, and part thriller, with powerful strands of autobiographical narrative that connects the author to these two men. A monumental and profoundly important book, East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” by international human rights lawyer and law professor Philippe Sands recounts the lives and work of Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, who developed and advocated for the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide. ![]()
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