Boris Sergeyevich Mirkin-Getzevich (russian: Борис Серге́евич Миркин-Гецевич; January 1, 1892 – April 1, 1955), also known by his

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, Boris Mirsky, was a Russian jurist. He had been a director of the Paris Institute of Comparative LawWinter, Jay; Prost, Antoine (2013). ''René Cassin and Human Rights: from the Great War to the Universal Declaration''. Cambridge University Press. p. 228. . and a professor at the

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Life

Boris Mirkin-Getzevich was born in

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. He studied law in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. In 1916, a sentence of exile to

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was pronounced against him because of an article he had published, but the sentence was never enforced. He emigrated to

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after the

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, and acquired French citizenship. He spoke Yiddish, Russian, French,

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and

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. His daughter Vitia married

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. He died in

Works

*''Les Constitutions des nations américaines'', 1932. *''Droit constitutionnel international'', 1933. *''Les Nouvelles tendences du droit constitutionnel'', 1935. *''Le Parlamentarisme sous la Convention nationale'', 1936. *''La Quatrième république'', 1946. *''Les constitutions européennes'', 1951–1952.

References

1892 births 1955 deaths Lawyers from Kyiv Ukrainian Jews Russian jurists White Russian emigrants to France {{Russia-bio-stub