Rene Cassin and Human Rights : From the Great War to the Universal Declaration (Hardcover)

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.