Robert Falco was a French jurist who lived from 1882 to 1960 and served as the alternate French judge at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Born in Paris to a Jewish family, he began working as a barrister in 1903 and earned his doctorate in law in 1907, later serving as a judge at the court of chancery and then on the Paris Court of Appeal, from which he was dismissed in 1940 because he was Jewish. In June 1945 he represented France in the negotiations that produced the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which established the procedures for the Nuremberg trials, and he sat there as alternate judge alongside Henri Donnedieu de Vabres. Reinstated to the French judiciary in 1947, he joined the Cour de Cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour; his unpublished trial notes were later published as the 2012 memoir Juge a Nuremberg.
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RoleJudge at the Nuremberg trials 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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1. Robert Falco (Wikipedia)
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His great-grandfather was decorated by Louis Philippe in 1831, and his maternal grandfather Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe worked as an architect for Leopold II of Belgium and Gustave de Rothschild.
Introduction, nationality
Robert Falco was a French jurist who lived from 1882 to 1960 and served as the alternate French judge at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
Introduction, role
Robert Falco was a French judge at the Nuremberg trials, who later sat in the Cour de Cassation.
Full article, field of law
During the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials in June 1945 in London at the International Conference on Military Trials he represented France together with André Gros, professor of international law, and was one of the main authors of the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, defining the procedures and protocols observed during the Nuremberg Trials, where he was one of the two French judges, as the alternative to Henri Donnedieu de Vabres.
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Wikidata Q316461, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1882
Wikidata Q316461, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1882-02-26
Wikidata Q316461, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1960
Wikidata Q316461, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1960-01-14
Wikidata Q316461, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Paris
Wikidata Q316461, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Paris
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