Professor Alfred de Zayas

Authority in International Law and Historian
 

" The Genocide against the Armenians 1915-1923 and the relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention "
by Alfred de Zayas

PLEASE CLICK HERE To read the above authoritative study by Professor De Zayas on the relevance in International Law, of the 1948 Genocide Convention,  to the Genocide of the Armenians in Turkey in 1915-1923

PLEASE CLICK HERE To Read   " The Twentieth Century's First Genocide: International Law, Impunity, the Right to Reparations, and the Ethnic Cleansing Against the Armenians, 1915-16 "

Alfred de Zayas (1947) is an American lawyer and historian. He holds a J.D. from Harvard and a Dr.phil.(PhD)in history from Göttingen. A member of the New York and Florida Bars, he practised law in the law firm Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett in New York for three years, and then moved to Europe with a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship. He was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and member of the editorial committee of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law. In January 1981 he became a staff member of the then UN Division of Human Rights in Geneva, and worked for 22 years as a lawyer for the United Nations, taking early retirement in 2003 in order to teach and write. He was Secretary of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Deputy Chief of the Communications Branch and Chief of the Petitions Section. He has been visiting professor of international law at DePaul University in Chicago, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the Universität Trier in Germany, the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, the Académie internationale de droit constitutionnel in Tunis, and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. He is the author of five books, including "Nemesis at Potsdam" (Routledge) and "A Terrible Revenge" (Palgrave/Macmillan), co-author and co-editor of several books, and author of scholarly articles on international law and history. He was President of the UN Society of Writers 1990-2005 and remains Editor-in-Chief of the UN literary journal ''Ex Tempore''. For many years Secretary-General of PEN International, Centre Suisse romande, he was elected President in 2006.
( Biography taken from the website of The Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations University Institute, Geneva -   http://www.genevadiplomacy.com/?menu_id=6&page_id=15&full=1&faculty_id=24 )