East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide | Conf茅rence Ren茅 Cassin avec Philippe Sands
The Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique vous invite 脿 r茅server cette date pour une conf茅rence avec le professeur Philippe Sands, UCL Faculty of Laws, Grande Bretagne.聽
Le conf茅rencier
[En anglais seulement] Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers, of which he was a co-founder in 1999. He practises as Counsel before many international courts, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. He sits as arbitrator in ICSID and other investor state disputes, and on the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
He is the author of fourteen academic books, including Principles of International Environmental Law (4th edition, 2018); of Lawless World (2005); and Torture Team (2008); and contributes to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and The Guardian.
His latest book is East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson), winner of numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford (Samuel Johnson) Prize, 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 2018.
He is President of English PEN and a Vice President of the Hay Festival. You can follow him on Twitter at @philippesands.
La conf茅rence Cassin
Les conf茅rences Ren茅 Cassin sont organis茅es par la 贵补肠耻濒迟茅 de droit de McGill. En 1988, l'Alliance Isr茅alite Universelle a cr茅茅 cette s茅rie de conf茅rences pour souligner le centenaire de la naissance de Ren茅 Cassin, qui a re莽u le prix Nobel de la paix en 1968. L'Alliance Isr茅alite Universelle est un organisme de d茅fense des droits de la personne qui a une histoire distingu茅e, ayant 茅t茅 fond茅 脿 Paris en 1860. Ren茅 Cassin en a 茅t茅 le pr茅sident entre 1943 et 1969.
Cette conf茅rence est accr茅dit茅e pour 1,5 heures de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes par un dispensateur reconnu.
