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

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2013Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (426 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107348349
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 341.48
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Innehåll:
Intro -- 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) -- 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 -- The Defence Council of the Empire -- Living 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.
Dealing with the victims of Vichy -- Vichy 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 -- New directions for the Conseil d'Etat -- The 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.
Sammanfattning: Through the biography of one extraordinary man at the centre of the human rights movement, this book reveals how the political and intellectual movement emerged from the experiences of a generation who endured two world wars, and gained the momentum to ultimately enshrine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Intro -- 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) -- 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 -- The Defence Council of the Empire -- Living 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.

Dealing with the victims of Vichy -- Vichy 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 -- New directions for the Conseil d'Etat -- The 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.

Through the biography of one extraordinary man at the centre of the human rights movement, this book reveals how the political and intellectual movement emerged from the experiences of a generation who endured two world wars, and gained the momentum to ultimately enshrine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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