Hersch Lauterpacht
Hersch Lauterpacht · Philosophy & Social Sciences
International Human Rights Law
1897, Żółkiew, Austria-Hungary (now Zhovkva, Ukraine) — 1960, London, England
United Kingdom · Austria-Hungary (Galicia)
Hersch Lauterpacht is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — International Human Rights Law
Hersch Lauterpacht was an international lawyer who shaped the modern human-rights and international-law order, promoting the concept of individual human rights and helping frame the legal charges at the Nuremberg trials. His book on an international bill of rights influenced the post-1945 human-rights regime. He was born to a Jewish family in Galicia and lost relatives in the Holocaust.
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