Exilés politiques et avènement du « droit humain » : la pensée juridique d'André Mandelstam (1869-1949)

The discussions on the notion of “crime against humanity”, far from starting with the Shoah, finds its origin earlier with the notion of “crime of lese-humanity” mentioned in connection with the genocide of the Armenians. At the League of Nations, around the jurist of Judeo-Russian origin André Mand...

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Autor principal: Kévonian, Dzovinar
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicat: 2003
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:The discussions on the notion of “crime against humanity”, far from starting with the Shoah, finds its origin earlier with the notion of “crime of lese-humanity” mentioned in connection with the genocide of the Armenians. At the League of Nations, around the jurist of Judeo-Russian origin André Mandelstam, and some others, the Armenian genocide was the occasion of fruitful legal discussions that tended to make the “Human Right” prevail over the State sovereignty, as it aimed to the limitation of the power of the State within its borders. This culminated in a “Declaration of the Human Rights” (1929), written twenty years before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.