Must Know
A Nobel Prize winner for coauthoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Born in Bayonne, France, he studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence. Following an injury in World War I, he established the International Conference of Disabled War Veterans. In 1920, he was appointed professor at Lille University and later on at Sorbonne. Cassin also taught in the Hague Academy of International Law. He functioned as the French delegate to the League of Nations from 1924-1938. During World War II, he served the Free French Government of de Gaulle in many important positions and, afterwards, as vice-president of the Council of State in France and as chairman of the UN’s Commission on Human Rights.
