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East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity.” By Philippe Sands . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House, 2016. Pp. xii, 425. Index. $32.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

David Scheffer
David Scheffer*
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Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 111 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 559 - 566
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References

1 The most notable of these prior to World War II is Hersch Lauterpacht, The Function of Law in the International Community (1933).

2 Hersch Lauterpacht, An International Bill of Rights of Man (1945).

3 London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, para. 6(c), 1945.

4 See International Law Commission, Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission, Crimes Against Humanity, at http://legal.un.org/ilc/guide/7_7.shtml.

5 The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Center, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes Jurisdiction (Nov. 2016), at http://www.loc.gov/law/help/genocide/chart.php.

6 Lauterpacht, Hersch, Review of Raphael Lemkin: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, 9 Cambridge L.J. 140 (1945)Google Scholar.

7 Sands writes on page 341 of his book that he found the press release in Lemkin's papers as “Special Release No. 1,” dated July 27, 1946.

8 GA Res. 96(1) (Dec. 11, 1946).

9 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Dec. 9, 1948, 78 UNTS 277.

10 David Scheffer, All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals 428–37 (2012).