Rafał Lemkin (1900–59) was an outstanding penal/criminal law expert of Polonised-Jewish descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the John Casimir University (Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza) in Lwów. He contributed to the codification of the Polish penal law, and analysed criminal legislations of the totalitarian regimes of Italy and Soviet Russia. In 1933, he… Continue reading Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide as a Crime under International Law”
