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Philippe Sands: international law risks letting Putin off the hook

Kate Laycock
April 28, 2022

The top international lawyer and author of 'East West Street' talks to DW's Inside Europe program about his personal connection to the Ukrainian city of Lviv, and why he's calling for the establishment of a new international tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression.

https://p.dw.com/p/4AZWE

Philippe Sands QC is a founding member of Matrix Chambers, Professor of Law at University College London and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University.  His book, 'East West Street', tells the stories of two Jewish lawyers whose experience of the Holocaust led them to develop the concepts of human rights and genocide respectively.