Publication: Origins of post-World War II Justice

Last year I spent a week commuting to the Łódź archive to work through the personal papers of Emil Stanisław Rappaport. He was a criminologist and Supreme Court justice both before and after World War II. He was also Raphael Lemkin’s forgotten mentor in Warsaw.

My latest article shows how Rappaport and Polish criminology paved the way for postwar justice, set up mostly by Polish Jews like Lemkin and Lauterpacht. The piece is part of a larger volume on Polish contributions to criminology and it is (sadly) not open access.

The chapter is available here.

Emil Stanisław Rappaport (circa 1915)