Cassin, René

Cassin, René

▪ French jurist
in full  René-Samuel Cassin 
born October 5, 1887, Bayonne, France
died February 20, 1976, Paris

      French jurist and president of the European Court of Human Rights. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1968 for his involvement in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

      The son of a Jewish merchant, Cassin studied law before entering the French Army in World War I. During the war he sustained a severe abdominal wound, the effects of which troubled him for the rest of his life. He later became a professor of international law in Paris and then, from 1924 to 1938, served as a French delegate to the League of Nations assemblies and disarmament conferences in Geneva. After the fall of France in June 1940, he joined General Charles de Gaulle in London and served as a key member of the Free French government in exile.

      After World War II Cassin became president of the Council of State (Conseil d'État), France's highest administrative court, and held other high legal and administrative offices in France. Internationally, he helped found the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (UNESCO) in 1944 and was a French delegate to UNESCO from 1945 to 1952. A French representative to the United Nations from 1946 to 1968, he was president of the UN Commission on the Rights of Man (1947–48) and helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although Cassin was originally credited as the author of the document, an examination of the original manuscript seemed to indicate that it had been written by John Peters Humphrey, the director of the Human Rights division of the UN. From 1965 to 1968 Cassin was president of the European Court of Human Rights.

      Cassin received the Nobel Prize for Peace on December 20, 1968, the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the UN Declaration. He was also a Zionist and campaigner for Jewish rights and was president of the Alliance Israélite in France.

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