Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 31 May 1947 ["Heimatrecht ist Menschenrecht", Journal "Deutsche Umschau", May 2001, p.3] in Cuba) is an American lawyer, writer, and historian. He is currently a professor of international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations [cite web |title=Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations |url=http://www.genevadiplomacy.com/?menu_id=6&page_id=15&full=1&faculty_id=24 |accessdate=2007-12-06] , and was formerly a senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [ A. de Zayas "Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for" in H. Volger (ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Kluwer, the Hague, 2002, pp. 217-223, favourably reviewed by Ruth Wedgwood in the American Journal of International Law, vol. 99, pp. 284-287 at 285;] [ A. de Zayas, "United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights" in Rudolf Bernhardt (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, Vol. 4, 2000, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1129-1132 ] , Secretary of the Human Rights Committee, and the Chief of Petitions. He practised law in New York as an associate in the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 1970 to 1974, specializing on corporate law, and is also a retired member of the Florida Bar.

De Zayas has written and lectured extensively on human rights, including the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee [ "The Procedures and Case-Law of the United Nations Human Rights Committee" in Carlos Jiménez Piernas, The Legal Practice in International Law and European Community Law, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 2007 ] , the Armenian Genocide [ http://www.armeniaforeignministry.com/conference/speakers.html A de Zayas, "The Twentieth Century's First Genocide" in Steven Vardy and Hunt Tooley (eds.) Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe, Columbia University Press, New York 2003, S. 157-180 ] , the US-run detention centers at Guantanamo Bay [cite journal |url=http://www.law.ubc.ca/files/pdf/events/2003/november/GUANTANA.pdf |title=The Status of Guantanamo Bay and the Status of the Detainees" |journal=University of British Columbia Law Review |volume=Vol. 37 |year=2004 |pages=pp. 277–342|format=PDF] [cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève |title=Guantánamo, la violation du droit en toute impunité |volume=17-18 |month=January | year=2004 |pages=p. 4] [cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève |title=Les Etats-Unis n'auront pas à répondre de Guantanamo |date=23 April 2004] "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia [ "Ethnische Säuberungen und das Internationale Kriegsverbrechertribunal für das ehemalige Jugoslawien" in Archiv des Völkerrechts, Band 35 (1997) pp. 29-72, "Der Krieg im ehemaligen Jugoslawien aus völkerrechtlicher Sicht" in Tilman Zülch (ed.) Ethnische Säuberung, Luchterhand Verlag, 1999 ] , the expulsion of Eastern European Germans after the Second World War [A. de Zayas "Nemesis at Potsdam" (Routledge 1977, 6th revised edition Picton 2003 ISBN, 0-89725-360-4, "A Terrible Revenge", Palgrave/Macmillan, New York 2006, 2nd revised edition, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-7308-5, "Vertreibung und Voelkerrecht" in the official catalogue of the exhibit "Flucht Vertreibung Integration", Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 3rd edition, Kerber Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-938025-58-1.] , the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974 [ [http://www.nyulawglobal.org/events/cyprus.htm cyprus ] ] [cite journal |first=Alfred |last=de Zayas |title=The Annan Plan |journal=Cyprus Yearbook of International Relations |year=2006, |pages=pp. 163–179 |url=http://www.aconstitutionalconventionforcyprus.ch/index.php?content=inner&linkid=29&head=Expert%] , the rights of minorities [ "Minority Rights in the New Millennium" in The Geneva Post Quarterly, May 2007, pp. 155-208 ] , and indigenous peoples. [ "The International Judicial Protection of Peoples and Minorities" in Catherine Brölmann "Peoples and Minorities in International Law", Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1993, pp.253-288 ] . He is an advocate of "the right to homeland" as a universal human right. [cite journal |first=Alfred-Maurice |last=de Zayas |title=International Law and Mass Population Transfers |journal=Harvard International Law Journal |year=1975 |pages=pp. 207–258] [cite journal |first=Alfred-Maurice |last=de Zayas |title=The Right to One's Homeland, Ethnic Cleansing and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |journal=Criminal Law Journal |year=1996] [cite book |title=Heimatrecht ist Menschenrecht |publisher=Universitas |location=Munich |year=2001]

While de Zayas' literary output and his international law and human rights publications are mainstream, his peace activism has rendered him somewhat controversial [ [http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Irak/zayas.html Impunität von Bush, 21.04.2003 (Friedensratschlag) ] ] . Since his retirement from the UN in 2003, de Zayas has become a vocal critic of the Iraq war [ [http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=4041#453084534 Poets Against War ] ] , indefinite detention [ [http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/review-857-p15 Human rights and indefinite detention ] ] in Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, nuclear pollution, and extreme poverty. He has chastised the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for their lack of intellectual honesty and their lip service to human rights. St. Galler Tagblatt 14 May 2004 "Verbrechen gegen den Frieden bestrafen" [ [https://aktuell.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/isku/AKTUELL/2004/20/128.htm «Verbrechen gegen Frieden bestrafen» ] ]

Biography

De Zayas' family is of Spanish and French descent. He grew up in Chicago. He earned his juris doctor from Harvard Law School and a doctorate of philosophy in modern history from the Georg-August University of Göttingen. He practiced corporate law in New York and family law in Florida, as member of the New York and Florida Bars. He was also a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tübingen and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. In 1978-80, he participated in the German-American Schoolbook Commission at the Georg Eckert Institut in Braunschweig and in 1980 published a long article on the subject of prejudice and stereotypes in schoolbooks in "Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte". [ ""Deutsch-amerikanische Schulbuchrevision" Das Parlament, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 14. Juli 1979, pp. 37-47, "Deutsch-amerikanische Schulbuchrevision: 1962 bis 1967, und heute?" Lecture at the Rhein-Ruhr-Klub, Düsseldorf 29 March 1979, "Verzerrtes Deutschlandbild in Amerika" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 August 1978, p. 2, "Hässliche Klischees in Schulbüchern" in Der Junge Beamte, November 1980, p. 14 ] .

During the course of his legal and academic career, he has been a visiting professor of international law and of world history at a number of institutions, including the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), the DePaul University College of Law (Chicago), the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, the Schiller International University (Leysin), the Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel (Tunis), the University of Trier, the Santa Clara Law School, the Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN, Genève), the Institut de Droits de l'Homme Strasbourg, the Felix Ermacora Institute in Vienna, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund (Sweden), and the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). He has been member of doctoral commissions at Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, the universities of Amsterdam, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), and the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

De Zayas regularly publishes op-ed articles and essays in German and Swiss newspapers, including the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", "Die Welt", "Das Parlament", "Der Spiegel", "Bayernkurier", "Zeit Fragen", and the "Tribune de Genève". He has made television appearances on round tables and panels for CNN, WDR, WDR's "Monitor", WDR's "Alte und neue Heimat", Phoenix, 3sat, ZDF, "ZDF-Magazin", "Südwestfunk/Baden-Baden", "Report", "Aschaffenburger Gespräche", Bayerischer Rundfunk, Léman Bleu (Geneva) etc. He has been legal and historical consultant to numerous television documentaries in the US, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, including the Discovery Channel film on the sinking of the refugee ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", and the Bayerischer Rundfunk documentary "Flucht und Vertreibung". He regularly gives radio interviews to Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, Radio Cité (Geneva), WBAI (New York), and other stations. [cite web |title=Irak/USA/UNO: Feilschen, tricksen, erpressen - US-Diplomatie im "Feilschen, tricksen, erpressen - US-Diplomatie im Sicherheitsrat" |url=http://frieden.kommunikationssystem.de/news/Frieden/Irak-USA-UNO:-Feilschen,-tricksen,-erpressen-US-Diplomatie-im-17083.html |accessdate=2007-12-06] [cite web |first=Gerhard |last=Lange |title="Niemand hat Bush zum Weltpolizisten bestellt" |accessdate=2007-12-06 |url=http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Irak/zayas.html ]

De Zayas is a Roman Catholic and resides with his Dutch wife in Geneva. [ "Servez L'Eternnel avec Joie" Paroisse des Crêts, Grand Saconnex, Le Messager, July 2007, pp. 28-29 ]

According to press articles, he has been a registered Republican in the United States since 1968, when he was a Harvard student and active member of the Harvard Republicans, but has voted for the Democratic party since 2004. [ Commentary on the US Supreme Court Judgement on Guantanamo, in the German daily Die Welt, 1 June 2004, "Das Gericht hätte eine Frist setzen müssen". See also Harvard Law School Yearbook 1970 p. 187, 194, 218]

Publications on German history

While de Zayas' human rights publications largely reflect United Nations positions, his historical research and conclusions regarding the transfer of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe at the end of WWII, a topic that had been hitherto largely neglected by academics, have given rise to much controversy [cite book |first=Manfred |last=Kittel |title=Die Vertreibung der Vertriebenen |publisher=Oldenbourg Verlag |location=Munich |year=2007 |pages=pp. 119, 158, 164.] [cite book |first=Pertti |last=Ahonen |title=After the Expulsion |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |year=2003 |pages=pp. 20-21.] [cite book |first=Giles |last=MacDonough |title=After the Reich |publisher= John Murray Publishers |location=London |year=2007 |pages=pp. 126, 556, 585 ff. |quote=There is a similar lack of documentation in English on events in Czechoslovakia. The best remains Alfred M. de Zayas's "Nemesis at Potsdam" (London 1979)] [ [http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~wwwdrint/20042karagiannis1.htm Miskolc Journal of International Law ] ] . In 1975, he published a study in the Harvard International Law Journal in which he questioned the legality of the expulsion of possibly as many as 15 million Germans from their homes after World War II, invoking the Atlantic Charter, the Hague Conventions, and the Nuremberg Principles. [cite journal |first=Alfred-Maurice |last=de Zayas |journal=Harvard International Law Journal |title=International Law and Mass Population Transfers |volume=Vol. 16 |pages=p. 207–258] The article was followed by the book "Nemesis at Potsdam" which focused on the degree of responsibility of the Anglo-Americans for decisions leading to the expulsions of these ethnic Germans. U.S. Ambassador and Eisenhower advisor Robert Murphy wrote the preface. [cite book |first=Alfred-Maurice |last=de Zayas |title=Nemesis at Potsdam |publisher=Routledge |year=1977http://hermes.zeit.de/pdf/archiv/1977/20/Poker-in-Potsdam.pdf (Book review in Die Zeit)] In the same year, an enlarged German edition was published by the foremost legal publisher in Germany, C.H. Beck, becoming a bestseller, and was quickly reissued by Germany's largest pocketbook publisher, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. In this book, de Zayas took an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of population transfers and examined the situation of the ethnic Germans from both an historical and legal perspective. De Zayas was the first American historian to address this topic. [ See Chapter by Dr. Raymond Lohne in Steven Vardy/Hunt Tooley (eds.) "Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe", Columbia University Press, New York, 2003 http://hungarianhistory.com/lib/vardy/vardy.doc ] . As law professor at DePaul in Chicago, he organized an exhibit entitled "Ethnic Cleansing 1944-1948", which ran from November 1993 to February 1994, consisting of more than 100 poster-sized "Wochenschau", "Bundesarchiv" and US-Army Signal Corps pictures, as well as paintings by survivors of the expulsion, which was widely visited and commented in the Chicago press. [Chicago Sun Times, Sunday, November 28, 1993 ] [cite journal |journal=Chicago Daily Law Bulletin |title=Professor recalls post-WWII atrocities |date=1993-11-19 |pages=pp. 3–4] [DePaul University Reporter, Vol. VII, No. 5, January 234, 1994, p.4 ]

His second book, "The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau" was published in Germany by Universitas/Langen Müller. Professor Howard Levie, a noted expert in international humanitarian law, wrote the preface. This book describes some of the work of the Wehrmacht-Untersuchungsstelle, a special section of the legal department of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, which investigated Allied and German war crimes. Examples include the murder of Ukrainians in Lviv by the NKVD in 1941, the murder of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn in 1940, executions of German PoWs by French irregulars in 1944, and the sinking of the German hospital ship "Tübingen" by the British in 1944. De Zayas was the first researcher to see and evaluate the extant 226 volumes (only about half of the total records, the rest apparently having been burned in Langensalza, Germany near the end of the war, according to de Zayas. [de Zayas, Alfred-Maurice, "The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945", University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, USA, 1989, pp. xiii-xiv.] ), which had been classified documents in the United States and had just been returned by the US National Archives to the German Bundesarchiv. The book was savagely attacked in the media of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Notwithstanding criticism from a few historians in Germany, "Nemesis at Potsdam" and "The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau" were well-received in the academic community, are used in colleges and universities, and remain in print thirty years after their initial publication, in the 14th and 7th revised and updated editions, respectively. [cite web |title=Fast ein Klassiker |date=2006-07-06 |accessdate=2007-12-06 |url=http://www.faz.net/s/RubA330E54C3C12410780B68403A11F948B/Doc~E10BC7A8F13DB4F8ABAC3535A8647A833~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.htmlhttp://hermes.zeit.de/pdf/archiv/1980/05/Die-Verbredien-der-anderen.pdf (book review in Die Zeit)]

Civic activities

De Zayas was co-President with Jacqueline Berenstein Wavre of the "Association Suisses et Internationaux de Genève" (1996-2006). ASIG was particularly active in the cultural integration of international civil servants into Geneva life, an activity currently carried out by the "Geneva Welcome Centre" at the Villa la Pastorale in Geneva. It also organized numerous round tables at the United Nations and other public events with a view to promoting Switzerland's entry into the United Nations. On 11 November 1998 ASIG hosted a conference at the Palais des Nations on "Denis de Rougement ou l'art de penser en avant les problèmes". On 12 May 1999 ASIG hosted a conference by Professor Peter Tschopp, Director of the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, on "La Suisse et l'ONU" at the Centre d'Accueil Genève Inernationale. ASIG also hosted round tables at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Palais Wilson 2000-2002 [ cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève |date=4 March 1998 | title=Article|pages=p. 11] [ cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève |date=12 February 2000 |title=Article |pages=p. 8] [ cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève|title=Article|date=7 February 2003] [ cite journal |journal=UN Special |month=April | year=2002 |pages=pp. 28–29|title=Article] [cite web |title=International Geneva - Welcome Centre - International Circles |url=http://www.cagi.ch/en/Cercles_internationaux.htm ]

Activist for human rights and peace

De Zayas is a member of numerous professional organizations and non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International, Point Coeur [cite web |title=UN Round table on human dignity at centre of human rights, moderated by Alfred de Zayas, |url=http://www.heartshomeusa.org/] [cite web |title=Points-Cœur |url=http://www.pointscoeur.org] , the Geneva "Club de la Presse", the German Society for International Law, the Forschungskreis Vereinte Nationen, and the Centre Against Expulsions (Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen). He sits on the advisory boards of several organizations, including the Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte in Frankfurt, and is a member of the International Expert Panel for a European Solution in Cyprus (2004-2008). In January 2008, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights placed his name on the public list of candidates for Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council [ http://portal.ohchr.org/extranet/docs/Pblist_fulldata.pdf ]

He is currently treasurer of Millennium Solidarity, a Geneva non-governmental organization working for world peace and the eradication of poverty [ [http://millennium-solidarity.net/committee.html Millennium Solidarity Geneva Group - Millénium Solidarité Groupe de Genève ] ] . He has participated on podium discussions at the UN and chaired an expert panel on peace, disarmament and powerty at the Civil Society Development Forum on 28 June 2007 in Geneva. [ [http://www.ngocongo.org/ CONGO - Welcome ] ] Millennium Solidarity has synergies with the Geneva Institute for Peace [ [http://www.gipri.ch/spip/ Geneva International Peace Research Institute | BIENVENUE ! | ACCUEIL - SOMMAIRE ] ] , CETIM -Centre Europe- Tier Monde [http://www.cetim.ch/fr/act_cfirak.php, and GCAP Global Call for Action against Poverty ] [ [http://www.whiteband.org/ Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) — Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) ] ] [ [http://www.pressclub.ch/archives/events_2005/event_090605_1130.htm CSP - Manifestations: 09 juin 2005 à 11 h.30 ] ] [ [http://www.pressclub.ch/doc/CSP_CP_090605_1130.pdf ] ] [ [http://wl5www268.webland.ch/index.php?id=405 Civil Society Development Forum 2007 ] ] [ [http://www.divainternational.ch/spip.php?article165 Diva International.“Life motivations in Geneva - A new international centre for life management skills and well-being” ] ]

He is a member of the "Asociación Española para el Desarrollo del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos" (AEDIDH), which in October 2006 produced the "Luarca Declaration on the Human Right to Peace" [http://www.fund-culturadepaz.org/spa/04/LIBROS/Luarca_Declaration.pdf] . He has represented AEDIDH, the International P.E.N., and the International Society for Human Rights at round tables at the United Nations in Geneva. [(http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=299 ] , including with Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor Jean Ziegler, and with the Chairman of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Luis de Alba. He is an advocate of the human right to peace and a signatory of the "Luarca Declaration on the Human Right to Peace" [http://www.ngoic.org/_upload/2007/9/12-9-2007_Human_Rights_to_Peace-231808.doc]

While at the U.N., de Zayas was the founder and editor of the series "Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol." He is a regular participant in panels and round tables at the United Nations, where he represents the International Society for Human Rights. During the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th sessions of the Human Rights Council, he participated in panels on various issues including the right to development, extreme poverty, the millennium development goals, moderated a panel on human dignity, and presented the statement of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on the International Day of Human Rights, 21 September 2007. [Current Concerns, October 2007 No. 14, p. 8] [cite journal |journal=Diario de las Americas |title=Abogan por la paz |date=2007-09-21 |url=http://www.diariolasamericas.com/news.php?nid=36777 |accessdate=2007-12-06 ] [cite web |title=September 21 : International Day of Peace The Luarca Declaration and the Human Right to Peace |publisher=DIVA International |month=December | year=2007 |url=http://www.divainternational.ch/spip.php?article247 ]

Literary endeavors

De Zayas has published poetry in English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch, translated Rainer Maria Rilke into English, French, and Spanish, translated Joseph von Eichendorff and Hermann Hesse into English. [ de Zayas translation of Hesse in Bernward Koch-Boehm's CD-recording with Erdenklang/da music, Nr. 61182. Deutsche Austrophon GmbH, D-49356 Diepholdz, 2008, "Montagnola. Dedicated to Hermann Hesse. Meditative Piano Improvisations"] .

As a member of the International Rainer Maria Rilke Society (Sierre, Switzerland), he published the first English-language translation of Rilke's "Larenopfer", 90 poems dedicated to Rilke's homeland of Bohemia, and hometown of Prague (with a historical commentary, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2005). With this book, de Zayas opened a new facet of Rilke research: Rilke as Heimatdichter or poet of the homeland, poète du terroir - spanning Rilke's early poetry characterized by enthusiasm for the beauties and the history of his homeland through Rilke's final poetic testament -- more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to the Valais in Switzerland ("Quatrains Valaisains, Roses, Fenetres, Vergers"), Rilke's "Wahlheimat", where he spent the last years of his life at the Château de Muzot in Sierre and where he is buried in nearby Raron. Hitherto, Rilke had been understood primarily as a metaphyscial poet, as a poet's poet, but never seen as a homeland poet. Zayas has lectured and published on Rilke's search for a sense of belonging and his grateful attachment to a landscape and to the real people who live there. [cite web |title=Fondation Rainer Maria Rilke: Les conférences et lectures |url=http://www.fondationrilke.ch/pages/fr/conferences_lectures.htm |accessdate=2007-12-06 ]

He has also published in the literary journal of the PEN Club Suisse romande "L'Escarpe". A member of International PEN since 1989, he was secretary of the Swiss-French PEN in 2002-06, and is currently its president. De Zayas has been President of the PEN Club in the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland since 2006. [ cite web |title=International PEN |url=http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.php?pid=19 |accessdate=2007-12-06 ]

De Zayas served for 15 years as president of the United Nations Society of Writers (Geneva).De Zayas was the founder of the UN literary review "Ex Tempore" ISSN 1020-6604, which has published 18 issues [ [http://www.divainternational.ch/spip.php?article256 Diva International.Chez Alfred de Zayas - fête de la " Genève internationale " ] ] . [cite journal |journal=Tribune de Genève |date=2004-02-12 |title=Le cercle de poètes qui libère les onusiens] [UN Special, April 1998, "Célébration des lettres: dixième soirée littéraire de la Socété des écrivains des Nations Unies"] [ U.N. Special, April 2006, pp. 38-39. ] . In May 2007 he was reelected editor-in-chief of Ex Tempore.

Prizes

De Zayas received the "Ehrengabe zum Georg Dehio Preis" in Esslingen in 1980, the Human Rights Award of the Danube Swabian Society of the United States and Canada in 1985, the VDA-Kulturpreis in Weimar in 1996, the "Plakete für Verdienste für das Selbstbestimmungsrecht" in Berlin in 1997, the "Humanitas Ring" in Frankfurt a.M. in 1998, the "Dr. Walter Eckhardt Award for Contemporary History" from Ingolstadt Research Institute for Contemporary History in 2001 [ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 4 December 2001 ] , the East Prussian Cultural Prize in Leipzig in 2002, the ANC Scholarly Excellence Award in Los Angeles in 2003, a Menschenrechtspreis in Munich in 2004, and on 10 December 2007 the Menschenrechtspreis of the Volksgruppe der Donauschwaben e.V. in Stuttgart [ Stuttgarter Zeitung 11 December 2007, p.22 ] .

Selected works

*"Nemesis at Potsdam: the Expulsion of the Germans from the East". Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989 (first edition published in 1977 in London and Boston by Routledge), ISBN 0-8032-4910-1. Preface by Ambassador Robert Murphy. Updated seventh edition published in 2003 by Picton Press in Rockland, Maine, ISBN 0-89725-360-4. Critically acclaimed in the American Journal of International Law, Herald Tribune, Times Educational Supplement, Choice. German version, _de. Die Nemesis von Potsdam, Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen (original version with C.H.Beck, Muenchen, then dtv and Ullstein), 14th revised edition, Herbig, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7766-2454-X, critically acclaimed in _de. die Zeit, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2006), Die Presse (Vienna, 2006).
*"A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, ISBN 1-4039-7308-3. Preface by Professor Charles Barber. New revised edition with Palgrave/Macmillan, New York 2006, ISBN 1-4939-7308-3. Critically acclaimed in The Times, Publishers' Weekly, Army, Netherlands International Law Review. German version, " _de. Die deutschen Vertriebenen", fifth revised edition with Leopold Stocker Verlag (Ares), Graz, Austria 2006, critically acclaimed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2006). In his review article "Inside the Panic", Robert Paxton relies on "A Terrible Revenge" to illustrate the consequences of Nazi crimes on German civilians. "New York Review of Books", 22 November 2007, p. 50.
*"The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945" (With Walter Rabus). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8032-9908-7. Preface by Professor Howard Levie. New revised edition with Picton Press, Rockland, Maine, ISBN 0-89725-421-X. The author was interviewed by CNN on this book on 4 April 1990. Critically acclaimed in the American Journal of International Law, Cambridge Law Journal, _de. Archiv des Völkerrechts, Historische Zeitschrift, Das Parlament. Parts of the book are reproduced for study purposes in the Red Cross Handbook "How does Law Protect in War?" edited by Marco Sassoli and Antoine Bouvier, ICRC, Geneva 1999, ISBN 2-88145-110-1. German version, "Die Wehrmacht-Untersuchungsstelle für Verletzungen des Völkerrechts" Universitas Verlag, München, seventh revised edition 2001, prior editions with Ullstein Verlag, Berlin. Preface by Professor Dr. Dietrich Rauschning, Director of the _de. Institut fuer Voelkerrecht der Universitaet Goeetingen and Judge at the Human Rights Chamber of Sarajevo. Critically acclaimed in Die Zeit, Die Welt, Der Spiegel. A prime-time television special based on this book was aired on Channel 1 of German national television ARD/WDR on 18 and 21 March 1983 to positive reviews in the German press, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, etc. Issued in 2005 as a DVD by Polar Film, ISBN 3937163859. [cite journal |first=Alfred |last=de Zayas |title=The Wehrmacht Bureau on War Crimes |journal=Historical Journal |volume=Vol. 35 |pages=pp. 383–400 |year=1992http://www.jstor.org/view/0018246x/di013476/01p0343y/0] [review by Professor Max E. Riedlsperger in German Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 150-151. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-7952(198102)4%3A1%3C150%3ADWUAUA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 ] [Benjamin Ferencz, Die Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 75, pp. 403-405 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9300(198104)75%3A2%3C403%3ADWDEUA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G] [Christopher Greenwood, The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, The Cambridge Law Journal, 1990, pp. 148-149 ]
*Heimatrecht ist Menschenrecht. Auf dem Weg zu einer Weltkonvention. ("The Right to the Homeland is a Human Right: Towards an International Convention".) Universitas Verlag, 2001. ISBN 3-8004-1416-3, critically acclaimed in Netherlands International Law Review, Die Welt (2002).
*"Rainer Maria Rilke. Die Larenopfer" Bilingual English-German edition with commentary. Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2005. ISBN 1-59709-010-7, critically acclaimed in the Blätter der Rilke Gesellschaft.
*"International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms", co-editor and co-author with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertram Ramcharan, Kluwer, The Hague, 2001, ISBN 90-411-1445-9. New revised edition 2008.
*"Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice" in collaboration with Professor Cherif Bassiouni, Transnational Press, New York, 1994, ISBN 0-941320-87-1
*"Ethnic Cleansing: Applicable Norms, Emerging Jurisprudence, Implementable Remedies" in John Carey (ed.) International Humanitarian Law: Origins, Transnational Press, New York 2003, pp. 283-307.
* 18 entries in the Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, edited by Rudolf Bernhardt, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Vol. 1-5, 1992-2003, including "United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights", "Combatants", "Spanish Civil War", "Population Expulsion", "Repatriation", "Open Towns", "Curzon Line", "United States Dependent Territories", "European Recovery Program", etc.
*" _de. Die amerikanische Besetzung Guantánamos", Institut für Rechtspolitik an der Universität Trier, Rechtspolitisches Forum Nr. 28, 2005, ISSN 1616-8828.
* entries in Dinah Shelton (ed.) Encyclopedia of Genocide (Macmillan Reference 2004), "Aggression", "Ismael Enver", "Nelson Mandela", "Raoul Wallenberg".
*"The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights" in Helmut Volger (ed.) Concise Encyclopaedia of the United Nations, Kluwer, The Hague, 2002.
*"Karl Ernst Smidt" in Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland, Aurich 2007.
*"The Procedures and Case-Law of the United Nations Human Rights Committee" in Carlos Jiménez Piernas, The Legal Practice in International Law and European Community Law, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 2007.
*"The Istanbul Pogrom of 6-7 September 1955 in the Light of International Law" in Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 2, No. 2 (August 2007) pp. 137-155.
*"Minority Rights in the New Millennium" in The Geneva Post Quarterly, May 2007, pp. 155-208.
*"The Follow-up Procedure of the UN Human Rights Committee" in International Commission of Jurists Review, No. 47, 1991.
*" _de. Der Nürnberger Prozess" in Alexander Demandt " _de. Macht und Recht", C.H.Beck, Munich 1996.
* "The potential for US ratification and enforcement of the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights". Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 20, 1990. pp. 299-310.
*" _de. Der Krieg im ehemaligen Yugoslawien aus völkerrechtlicher Sicht" in Tilman Zülch (ed.) "Ethnische Säuberung-Völkermord", Luchterhand, Hamburg 1993.
* editor of the United Nations series "Human Rights Committee. Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol" CCPR/C/OP/1, CCPR/C/OP/2, etc.
* Poetry in English, French, Spanish, German and Russian published in various literary journals and newspapers including "Esoteric" in 2003, 2004 and 2005 (literary journal of the University of British Columbia), in "Ex Tempore" (literary journal of the United Nations Society of Writers), in "l'Escarpe" (literary journal of P.E.N. International, Centre Suisse romand), in the U.N. Special, in "Paloma", publication of the Geneva Salève Society, etc.

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* [http://www.alfreddezayas.com Alfred de Zayas] -- official website; contains many of his articles, including the Douglas McK Brown lecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on the issue of the Guantanamo Naval Base, 37 U.B.C. Law Review, 277-341 (2004) as well as more than 100 translations of Rainer Maria Rilke into English, French and Spanish, and translations of Hermann Hesse.