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Jewish Chronicle
February 2, 2018
The guest speaker was lawyer Philippe Sands, who discussed his latest book, East West Street, on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity. He said his own family had been “supported by the predecessor of World Jewish Relief. “It is an extraordinary organisation which provides necessaryÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 26, 2018
Born in 1939, Niklas Frank is the son of Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor of Poland, and he travelled through Europe with the human rights lawyer Philippe Sands in the acclaimed documentary My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did. His memory in Kriegskinder is from a childhood shopping trip with hisÃÂ ...
Canadian Lawyer Magazine
January 16, 2018
And, yet, Ukrainian lawyers (there are about 40,000 of them for a population of 45 million) have dramatically failed to rise to the occasion. ... When I was in Lviv, I went to a lecture at Lviv University given by Philippe Sands, an international lawyer who lives in London but has strong family connections toÃÂ ...
The Adelaide Review
January 16, 2018
Thanks to personal connections to Australia and Adelaide, renowned international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands and his colleagues will tour the ... West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, is a fascinating and sobering exploration of three lawyers and their connection toÃÂ ...
Jewish Chronicle
January 11, 2018
Last year's joint winners were lawyer Philippe Sands for his novel East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen for her novel Walking Lions. The winner will be announced on February 15 at a ceremony held at JW3 and chaired by Emily Kasriel,ÃÂ ...
The Bookseller
January 5, 2018
Prominent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands QC is to be the new president of English PEN, taking over from Maureen Freely. Sands is professor of law at University College London and also an author, most recently of East West Street (W&N), which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016 asÃÂ ...
Livemint
December 31, 2017
In East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands writes an exceptional memoir, which weaves in the stories of two persistent lawyers—Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin—with his own family history, and the post-war trial ofÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
December 21, 2017
Philippe Sands, the author of East West Street, is one of those rare things, a practising and eminent international lawyer. When I was studying international ... however much we wanted it. Back then, there were as few as five lawyers in the world whose practices were entirely international law, we were told.
The Guardian
December 20, 2017
The ICTY's legacy has been pivotal, Philippe Sands QC, professor of international law at University College London, believes, paving the way for a ... “We, the trial lawyers, so far as I know, were all doing our imperfect best to keep our cases 'clean' and to resist improper interference where we detected it.
Kyiv Post
December 19, 2017
Philippe Sands: Lviv diary – horror, law, music (VIDEO). By Philippe Sands. Published Dec. 19, 2017 at 11:34 am. A picture shows a general view of Lviv. Photo by Anastasia Vlasova. Philippe Sands, human rights lawyer, returns to Lviv, the Ukrainian city at the heart of his book 'East West Street' and talks of the horrors ofÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 15, 2016
Sands' East West Street begins and ends with the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials, in particular that of the “butcher of Poland”, Hitler's personal lawyer Hans Frank, and looks at how the concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity were included in the judgment. It also explores the author's family history, asÃÂ ...
PBS (blog)
April 30, 2016
While some might call Philippe Sands the on-screen host of My Nazi Legacy, the new film by David Evans that is based on Sands' new book, he's actually the probing, searching journalistic heart at the center of this powerful documentary. The book, East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and CrimesÃÂ ...
Vox
October 30, 2017
As Philippe Sands, an international human rights lawyer who wrote about the origins of the two terms in his important book East West Street, ...
Green Bay Press Gazette
October 5, 2017
Philippe Sands, a distinguished human rights lawyer and professor, and also this film's host and writer said, "This is both an intensely personal ...
Network Norwich
October 3, 2017
Prof Philippe Sands, QC, a London barrister and leading human rights lawyer, who describes Elsie's extraordinary story in his international ...
The Guardian
November 15, 2016
Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands has beaten the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich to win the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction for East ...
New York Times
September 16, 2016
Philippe Sands knew that his grandfather, Leon Buchholz, had been born in ... conceived by rival lawyers, both of whom studied law at what is now Lviv ... Hitler's personal lawyer, who became governor-general of occupied ...
Vanity Fair
May 27, 2016
5 Questions for Philippe Sands Ahead of His Nazi-Era Saga East West Street ... The third man, Hans Frank, was Hitler's personal lawyer and later .... that the two prosecuting lawyers, Lauterpacht and Lemkin, learn that the ...
PBS (blog)
April 30, 2016
While some might call Philippe Sands the on-screen host of My Nazi Legacy, the new film by David Evans that is based on Sands' new book, ...
GhanaWeb
September 26, 2017
Ghana owes a debt of gratitude to the following- former Attorney ... Helen Ziwu; International Counsels Professor Philippe Sands Q.C. and PaulÃÂ ...
GhanaWeb
September 25, 2017
He also commended the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo for consulting ... international lawyers and experts led by Ghana's former Attorney General, ... International Counsels Professor Philippe Sands Q.C. and Paul Reichler;ÃÂ ...
Nature.com
September 13, 2017
As British lawyer Philippe Sands puts it: “We have gone well beyond the classical standards on the burden of legal proof, whether it be balanceÃÂ ...
Network Norwich
September 11, 2017
... Norwich,” says Prof Philippe Sands, QC, a London barrister and leading human rights lawyer, who describes Elsie's extraordinary story in hisÃÂ ...
Church Times
September 8, 2017
A visit to the Ukrainian city of Lviv leads Philippe Sands to pursue the ... the city); and two lawyers, Raphael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht,ÃÂ ...
Slugger O'Toole
September 7, 2017
Amnesty International's annual festival lecture will be delivered by human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, accompanied by Guillaume de ChassyÃÂ ...
Spiked
September 6, 2017
Two days later, the respected international lawyer Philippe Sands fulminated in the Guardian about the evils of nationalism. He claimsÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
September 5, 2017
(ie Sept.5) For many months lawyers for the two men, Bruce Jessen and ... The spell-binding new book by lawyer Philippe Sands should beÃÂ ...
Scottish Legal News
August 16, 2017
Humbling the role played by lawyers. Read Philippe Sands' East West Street. Read Deborah Lipstadt's Denial. Forgive, but do not forget.
lareviewofbooks
December 19, 2016
In East West Street, Philippe Sands, himself an international human rights lawyer, writes ... In Cambridge, in the summer of 1945, he was visited by Robert Jackson, US Attorney General under FDR ... Distrustful of lawyers, Wetherley uncoils sufficiently to give him vivid information about his mother's rescuer.
The Guardian
November 15, 2016
Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands has beaten the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich to win the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction for EastÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 12, 2016
Philippe Sands: Chance, and an excess of curiosity. ... Over the summer, preparing the lecture, I discovered that the lawyers who put the terms ... entered the scene: the fascinating but dastardly Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 16, 2016
Philippe Sands knew that his grandfather, Leon Buchholz, had been born in ... But it was not until Mr. Sands, an international lawyer and university ... conceived by rival lawyers, both of whom studied law at what is now LvivÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
May 27, 2016
5 Questions for Philippe Sands Ahead of His Nazi-Era Saga East West Street ... The third man, Hans Frank, was Hitler's personal lawyer and later .... that the two prosecuting lawyers, Lauterpacht and Lemkin, learn that theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
May 21, 2016
Philippe Sands begins this important and engrossing book in Nuremberg. ... a leading human rights lawyer who was involved in Chilean dictator Pinochet's .... Along the way, it underscores that it was Jewish lawyers, men withÃÂ ...
PBS (blog)
April 30, 2016
While some might call Philippe Sands the on-screen host of My Nazi Legacy, the new film by David Evans that is based on Sands' new book,ÃÂ ...
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
December 31, 1999
... somewhere on Bluebell Road, Norwich,” says Prof Philippe Sands, QC, a London barrister and leading human rights lawyer, who describesÃÂ ...
Nature.com
December 31, 1999
As British lawyer Philippe Sands puts it: “We have gone well beyond the classical standards on the burden of legal proof, whether it be balanceÃÂ ...
The Sun
March 7, 2017
And the Tory MP hit out at the Government for giving "those who committed crimes on one side of the argument a different deal to those that served the state.
Haaretz
February 23, 2017
We chose to split the prize between Sands' memoir, in which he interleaves the story of his own mother's family with those of the lawyers Raphael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht, and Gundar-Goshen's uncompromising and challenging novel about AfricanÃÂ ...
Myjoyonline.com
February 17, 2017
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has officially ended Ghana's oral arguments at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) with a call on the ITLOS to reject Cote d'Ivoire's claims that Ghana has moved ...
GhanaWeb
February 14, 2017
Addressing the Special Chamber hearing the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana's lead international lawyer, Professor Philippe Sands, said: "Our friends offer you a cloud of smoke and a ...
The Australian
February 10, 2017
These factors are reflected in other works that focus on the minutiae: the young lawyers who populate Sebastian Haffner's remarkable Defying Hitler (2000), for example, or the musicians in Fritz Trumpl's fascinating and more recent The Political ...
The Guardian
February 10, 2017
In 1993, the scholar and international lawyer Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, who has died aged 88, played a leading role in the genocide case filed against Serbia at the international court of justice in The Hague.
GhanaWeb
February 10, 2017
Ghana's team includes officials from the Attorney-General's Department, the Ministry of Energy, the Maritime Boundaries Secretariat, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation the Environmental Protection Agency, the Petroleum Commission and lawyersÃÂ ...
GhanaWeb
February 8, 2017
Ghana's legal team is firing a series of salvos against Cote d'Ivoire at the hearing of the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries.
BusinessGhana
February 7, 2017
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has prayed the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany, to uphold Ghana's position on the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire ...
GhanaWeb
February 7, 2017
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has prayed the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany, to uphold Ghana's position on the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.
Graphic Online
February 6, 2017
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has prayed the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany, to uphold Ghana's position on the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire ...
The Ferret (registration)
February 6, 2017
Bombs made in Scotland will be a key issue in a landmark legal case this week on the legality of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Over three days in London the High Court will hear a judicial review into UK weapons exports to Saudi Arabia for use in ...
Sunatimes
February 2, 2017
Mr. Paul S. Reichler, Attorney-at-Law, Foley Hoag LLP, member of the Bars of the United States Supreme Court and the District of Columbia,.
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