ABSTRACT
Life's Work Cassin taught civil and international law at the University of Lille for a period of about ten years, and then, from 1929, he held an appointment at the University of Paris; he also taught during some terms at The Hague and Geneva. He formally retired from the academic profession in 1960. During the years following World War I, he was active in efforts to mobilize the support of former soldiers from many countries in the interests of peacekeeping. He took part in the work of the International Labor Organization, and in 1922 he became president of France's Federal Union. He also served as a delegate to the League of Nations between 1924 and 1938, and, when the Geneva Disarmament Conference began its deliberations in 1932, he attempted, but with little success, to secure the support of veterans throughout Europe for the promotion of arms reduction. For much of his life, Cassin was associated with the Alliance Israelite, and he evinced a profound sympathy toward the aims of political Zionism; his conviction that some satisfaction should be found for the aspirations of the Jewish people was reinforced both by his first visit to Jerusalem, in 1930, and by the menacing drift toward Fascism and militarism on the part of some European nations.
