Rene Cassin
Rene Cassin
René Samuel Cassinwas a French jurist, law professor and judge. The son of a French-Jewish merchant, he served as a soldier in World War I, and later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. That same year, he was also awarded one of the UN's...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth5 October 1887
CountryFrance