‘East West Street,’ by Philippe Sands

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The New York Times, May 23, 2016

Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London, recounts the life and work of Hersch Lauterpacht for the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin for that of genocide, in “East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity.’ ”