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Professor Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Faculty of Laws, has won , alongside author Ayelet Gundar-Gosher, for his book East West Street; On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity.

The annual JQ-Wingate prize, run in partnership with , is awarded to the best book or books – fiction or non-fiction – of Jewish interest for the general reader.

Professor Philippe Sands QC said:

‘It is a humbling privilege to be awarded the JQ Wingate Prize, all the more so in its 40^th years, and alongside Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, whose work I so deeply admire and enjoy. East West Street is an intensely personal book, written with a multitude of purposes. In the writing I can hardly claim that it was my intention to offer an idea of Jewishness to a general reader, but I can see how in the result that consequence might have arisen.

Leon, Lauterpacht and Lemkin were remarkable individuals, each experiencing a long period of deep darkness simply because they happened to belong to the wrong group, yet somehow managing to find a crack of light. Perhaps it is that universal theme – needed once again in these days – that is so very Wingate.’