East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2016 book by Philippe Sands that examines the lives of two Jewish lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, born within three years of each other and students in the same city on the eastern outskirts of Europe, Lviv, who created the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide.

[1] It is a memoir and history of the origins of international criminal law in the aftermath of the Second World War.

"[6] John le Carré called it: "A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision.

"[7] Dominic Sandbrook in The Sunday Times wrote: "Supremely gripping.

Written with novelistic skill, its prose effortlessly poised, its tone perfectly judged, his book teems with life, from the bustling streets of Habsburg Lviv to the high drama of the Nuremberg trials.