Facing the past in Lviv: talk with Philippe Sands
Date and time:
Wednesday 27 September, 2017
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
In 2016, leading human-rights lawyer Philippe Sands won Britain's premier non-fiction prize, the Baillie Gifford, with his forensic and passionate book East-West Street: on the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. A combination of wartime history and family memoir, it follows the intertwined lives of his own forbears and two Lviv-trained lawyers, Raphael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht, who assisted the Nuremberg prosecution and laid the foundations of international human rights law. All lost their families in the Holocaust. Interviewed by the journalist and historian Anna Reid, Sands will talk about Lviv's Jewish history, its memorialisation, and his ongoing project to establish a department of international human rights law at Lviv University.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Philippe Sands QC
Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. His teaching areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law. As a practising barrister, he has extensive experience litigating cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the European Court of Justice. In 2003 he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. He is frequently invited to lecture around the world and previously held positions at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings College London and University of Cambridge and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003.
Moderator
Anna Reid
Anna Reid is a journalist and historian. She worked as Kyiv correspondent for The Economist and the Daily Telegraph from 1993-95 and later covered the country for the Economist Intelligence Unit. From 2002-6 she ran the think tank Policy Exchange's foreign affairs programme. She is the author of Borderland: Journey through the History of Ukraine (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, third edition 2015), The Shaman's Coat: a Native History of Siberia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), and Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 (Bloomsbury, 2011). Anna is Trustee of the Ukrainian Institute London.
