René Cassin (1887 to 1976) was a French jurist, professor of law and human rights advocate, best known as a principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, work for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. Born in Bayonne to a Sephardi Jewish family and raised in Nice, he studied law and took a doctorate in 1914, was gravely wounded in the First World War and afterwards founded a federation of disabled war veterans. He taught law at Lille from 1920 and at Paris from 1929, represented France at the League of Nations, and in 1940 joined General de Gaulle in London, where his legal expertise served the Free French. After the war he sat on the Council of State, revised John Humphrey's draft of the Universal Declaration for the United Nations, served on the Hague Court of Arbitration, and was a member of the European Court of Human Rights from 1959 and its president from 1965 to 1968.
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was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Cassin was appointed professor of law at Lille
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president (1965-1968) of the European Court of Human Rights
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he was a major contributor to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Interwar period, teaching
Academy of International Law of The Hague
Later life and career, administrative law
help to develop the French doctrine in administrative law
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he was a major contributor to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887
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was a French jurist
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Between 1944 and 1959, Cassin was a member of the Council of State.
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He served on the UN Human Rights Commission and the Hague Court of Arbitration.
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