Philippe Sands: 10 Years of East West Street

From Gaza to Ukraine to America and beyond, the rule-bound international legal order appears to be collapsing.

Yet, as lawyer and author Philippe Sands argued in the Guardian recently, ‘the assault on international rules has been more or less continual since 1945’. 10 years on from East West Street – his landmark, Baillie Gifford Prize-winning family memoir uncovering the origin of the concept of genocide – Sands reflects on the ongoing defence of international law against its enemies.