Henri Donnedieu de Vabres

Henri Donnedieu de Vabres ( born July 8, 1880 in Nîmes, † February 14, 1952 in Paris) was a French lawyer and judge at the Nuremberg Trials.

He was born the son of a landowner and lawyer in Nimes. He studied literature and law at Montpellier and Paris. Since 1924 taught Donnedieu de Vabres Criminal Law and Comparative Law at the University of Paris. After the Second World War he worked as a top French judge with the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. In 1947 he was appointed Vespasian V. Pella next to Raphael Lemkin and the Commission of Experts which drafted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.