CGG Lecture: Prof. Philippe Sands (UCL Law)A cooperation with Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS)

31 January 2017

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg trial. Part historical detective story, part family history, Sands guides us through some interconnected stories on the development of international law and the inclusion of the terms 'crimes against humanity' (Lauterpacht) and 'genocide' (Lemkin) in the judgement at Nuremberg.

Philippe Sand gives a lecture in which he will present his most recent book East West Street. The book is winner of the Baillie Gifford (Samuel Johnson) Prize for Non-Fiction.

Prof. Philippe Sands (University College London, Faculty of Laws)

East West Street. On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Wednesday, February 8^th, 2017, 6 p.m.

Hamburg Institut for Social Research (HIS), Mittelweg 36

The lecture is open to the public.