Format:
Online-Ressource (426 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107032569
Series Statement:
Human Rights in History
Content:
Presents a new interpretation of the history of human rights through the biography of a key player in the movement
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Plates; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction to the English edition; Abbreviations; Part I In the shadow of the Great War; 1 Family and education, 1887-1914; The family; Education; Friends; 2 The Great War and its aftermath; A casualty of war; Victims' rights: a prelude to social security in France; President of the UF, 1922-23; The national commissions for disabled veterans and wards of the nation; Autonomous and centralized commissions; Joint control; Increasing influence; Professor of law; The UF and the National Commission for Disabled Veterans (ONM)
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The National Commission for Wards of the Nation (ONP)3 Cassin in Geneva; The third way, the ILO and veterans' politics, 1919-25; CIAMAC; The League of Nations; Intellectual cooperation; L'Union Internationale de Secours (UIS); The Geneva Protocol; A political interlude; Disarmament: endgame; 4 From nightmare to reality, 1936-1940; A personal reckoning; From collective security to the Leviathan state, 1935-40; Growing isolation in the veterans' movement; The end of a world; Part II The jurist of Free France; 5 Free France, 1940-1941; The Churchill-de Gaulle accords: negotiations and outcomes
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The Defence Council of the EmpireLiving under the Blitz; 6 World War, 1941-1943; Permanent secretary of the Defence Council; Exiles; Cassin among the Allies; Minister of Justice and Education; Ambassador of Free France, 1942; The organization of the Ministry; The study of post-war problems; Human rights; The Provisional Consultative Assembly (ACP); 7 Restoring the Republican legal order: the 'Comité Juridique'; What now?; The re-establishment of Republican legality; Cassins political thinking and the law of 21 April 1944; The general principles of law in exceptional times
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Dealing with the victims of VichyVichy repression and respect for the general principles of law; The course of justice and the crime of national indignity; 8 Freeze frame: René Cassin in 1944; The man in the portrait; The teacher; Loyalties; Part III The struggle for human rights; 9 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins and echoes; Rethinking state sovereignty: Geneva and The Hague; Towards UNESCO; The Commission on Human Rights; The Universal Declaration: a collective manifesto; The European turn; The Nobel Prize and after; 10 The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 1944-1960
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New directions for the Conseil d'EtatThe war in Algeria; Chairing the executive board of ENA; From the Fourth to the Fifth Republic; 11 A Jewish life; The legacy of the war; The President of the Alliance Israélite Universelle; Cassin, the AIU, France and Israel; Cassin and the French Jewish community; Conclusion; An essay on sources; Sources and archives; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107345843
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107032569
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe René Cassin and Human Rights : From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Language:
French
Keywords:
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