East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

When the famous international lawyer Philip Sands received an invitation to give a lecture to law students in Lviv, he decided that this was also an opportunity to discover the city of his grandfather, who did not like to talk about the past.

Why did Lviv become the starting point of modern international law? What is the relation to this of the most eminent international lawyers, Lauterpacht and Lemkin, whose efforts led to the inclusion of the terms "crimes against humanity" and "genocide" in the Nuremberg trials? Building a powerful journey-meditation, in which on the path of memory, crimes and sins leave scars in generations, with gaps that will always be secrets of others, the author eventually finds unexpected answers to questions about his family.

In this book - an attempt to talk about the past, in it you will read at the same time a historical detective story, a family story, and a legal thriller, in which Philip Sands travels between the past and the present, weaving several stories into one whole.