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Emil Stanisław Rappaport

Emil Stanisław Rappaport
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Emil Rappaport, circa 1919
Born (1877-07-08)8 July 1877
Warsaw, Poland
Died 10 August 1965(1965-08-10) (aged 88)
Łódź, Poland
Occupation Judge
Known for member of the Supreme National Tribunal
Awards Order of Polonia Restituta

Emil Stanisław Rappaport (8 July 1877 – 10 August 1965) was the son of Feliks Rappaport and Justyna Bauerertz and a Polish Jewish lawyer . He was a specialist in criminal law and a founder of the doctrine of international criminal law. In 1930, he was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of Order of Polonia Restituta.

From 1897-1901 he studied law at the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw. In 1910 received a Doctor of Law degree at the university in Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

From 1919 he was a member of the Codification Committee, one of the founders of International Association of Penal Law (L'Association Internationale de Droit Penal) and he served as its vice-chairman between 1924 and 1939. He proposed that not only aggressive war, but also the propaganda for aggressive war should be considered an international crime.

He is co-founder and member of the Senate of Free Polish University and a professor of criminal policy at this university. In the years 1920-1932, as assistant professor, teaches criminal law at the University of Lviv and in 1948 is appointed full professor at the University of Łódź.

From 1917 to 1919 he was appellate court judge in Warsaw, and from 1919 to 1951, he was judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland.

In the period of the German occupation, he was arrested by the Gestapo and held prisoner for almost one year in Pawiak and Mokotow Prison (under the charge of miscarriage of justice of citizens of German nationality).


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