Hans Corell

Hans Axel Valdemar Corell (born July 7, 1939) is a Swedish lawyer and diplomat.

In this capacity, he was head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat.

He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University from 2006 to 2012.

Corell is on the Steering Committee of The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, launched in 2008 by the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute to study the need for a comprehensive convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity, analyze the necessary elements of such a convention, and draft a proposed treaty.

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