Raphael Lemkin was a Polish Jewish legal scholar who lived from 1900 to 1959, born in what is now Belarus and educated at the University of Lwow. He coined the term genocide and introduced the concept to legal discourse in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. After fleeing Nazi occupied Poland in 1939 he settled in the United States, taught on the Duke University law faculty from 1941, lectured in criminal law at Yale from 1948 and became a professor at Rutgers School of Law in 1955. He advised United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg trials and was the primary architect of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. He died in New York City.
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What was Raphael Lemkin's role in making genocide a crime under international law?
Lemkin led the campaign that ended in the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Lemkin led the campaign to have genocide recognised and codified as an international crime. After he coined the word in 1944, the United Nations General Assembly first recognized genocide as a crime under international law in 1946. It was then codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled the country and sought asylum in the United States, where he became an academic at Duke University and campaigned vigorously to raise international awareness of the atrocities that the Axis powers were committing across occupied Europe.
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Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin, IPA: [ˈrafaw ˈlɛmkʲin]; 24 June 1900 - 28 August 1959) was a Polish Jewish lawyer who is known for coining the term "genocide" and for campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention, which legally defines the act. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled the country and sought asylum in the United States, where he became an academic at Duke University and campaigned vigorously to raise international awareness of the atrocities that the Axis powers were committing across occupied Europe.
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Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin, IPA: [ˈrafaw ˈlɛmkʲin]; 24 June 1900 - 28 August 1959) was a Polish Jewish lawyer who is known for coining the term "genocide" and for campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention, which legally defines the act.
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In 1945 to 1946, Lemkin became an advisor to Supreme Court of the United States Justice and Nuremberg Trial chief counsel Robert H. Jackson. Starting in 1948, he gave lectures on criminal law at Yale University. In 1955, he became a Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
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Wikidata Q505586, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1900
Wikidata Q505586, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1900-06-24
Wikidata Q505586, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1959
Wikidata Q505586, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1959-08-28
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P19 (place of birth): Biazvodna
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P20 (place of death): New York City
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