René Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

ISBN: 9781107655706 出版年：2013 页码：426 Winter Prost Cambridge University Press

Introduction to the English edition Part I. In the Shadow of the Great War: 1. Family and education, 1887-1914 2. The Great War and its aftermath 3. Cassin in Geneva 4. From nightmare to reality: 1936-1940 Part II. The Jurist of Free France: 5. Free France: 1940-41 6. World war: 1941-43 7. Restoring the Republican legal order: the 'Comite Juridique' 8. Freeze frame: Rene Cassin in 1944 Part III. The Struggle for Human Rights: 9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins and echoes 10. The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 1944-1960 11. A Jewish life Conclusion An essay on sources.