In Swedish Entitled: Raphaël Lemkin i Stockholm, läraren vid juridiska institutionen i Stockholm som myntade ordet folkmord och initierade antagandet av FNs Folkmordskonvention

Description:

Raphaël Lemkin, a refugee in Sweden during 1940–1941, taught at the Department of Law at Stockholms högskola (now Stockholm University). Remarkably, after just five months in Sweden, he began teaching a course in Swedish, which he later adapted into the book Valutareglering och clearing (Norstedt, 1941). Lemkin is widely recognized for coining the term genocide in his seminal work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944), contributing to the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946), and playing a key role in the creation of the UN Genocide Convention (1948).

A substantial portion of the material for Axis Rule in Occupied Europe was gathered during his time in Stockholm. This seminar explores new findings about Lemkin's journey to Sweden, his tenure as a teacher at Stockholm University, and the network of individuals who supported him, including lawyer and politician Karl Schlyter and Professor Gösta Eberstein, then pro-rector of Stockholm University and an expert in civil, financial, and intellectual property law.

The study also investigates the intriguing possibility that the Swedish businessmen who facilitated Lemkin’s access to documents on the Nazi occupation may have been the same individuals who assisted the Polish resistance in smuggling critical reports on the Holocaust to the Polish government-in-exile in London via Stockholm.

Bio:

Dr. Klamberg is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of International Law at Stockholm University and Deputy Director of the Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice (SCILJ). He is a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh Law School. He is the editor-in-chief of Commentary on the Law of the ICC (CLICC) and the author of two monographs: Evidence in International Criminal Trials: Confronting Legal Gaps and the Reconstruction of Disputed Events (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013) and Power and Law in International Society: International Relations as the Sociology of International Law (Routledge, 2015). He has also published articles in the International Criminal Law Review and the Journal of International Criminal Justice and book chapters published by Oxford University Press.