![]() ![]() ![]() However, for Sands, these men also demonstrate the still-present irreconcilable divisions between international lawyers. ![]() The Nuremberg trials are now seen as the birth of modern international law because of the actions of the lawyers – and principal characters of the book – Herscht Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin. Combining memoir, biography, work of history and study of international law, it could most aptly be described as a ‘biography of a generation’ (as Mark Mazower argues) or of generations - generations that still live with the trauma of genocide and try to find justice in its aftermath, generations that suffered from a lack of international law before the 1945-1946 Nuremberg Trials, and generations that benefit from it today. ![]() The work has recently won the Bailie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but to label it as such could be limiting: Sands presents no usual work of non-fiction. Philippe Sands’ East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a book unlike any other, a work impossible to categorise. ![]()
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