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Geoffrey Robertson QC
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict…
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Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the…
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As the world wonders what can be done with the leaders of Iran, this report by a leading UN jurist establishes that many of them - including the Supreme Leader…
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Explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. This book shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies…
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Geoffrey Robertson’s Plan B for punishing human rights abusers: ‘Magnitsky Laws’, which could impose debilitating sanctions on ‘bad people’.
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Geoffrey Robertson QC was appointed to the Appeals Chamber of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2002. He has appeared before Old Bailey juries in some of the…
But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man…
Who Owns History? delves into the crucial debate over the Elgin Marbles, but also offers a system for the return of cultural property based on human rights law principles that…
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Compelling memoir of the UK’s leading human rights lawyer. Both funny and personal, it follows on from his best selling memoir The Justice Game, bringing Robertson’s fascinating and colourful career…
Geoffrey Robertson puts the case for an Australian Bill of Rights in a provocative argument for change, which explains that real democracy only exists if politicians give the courts power…
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his bestselling The Justice Game, Australia’s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old…
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Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the difficult debate surrounding the Armenian Genocide.
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Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the most controversial question that is still being asked about World War One.
At a time when international criminal law is faltering, the global justice movement must look to local Magnitsky laws as a means of naming, blaming and shaming human rights violators.
A timely hot-issue book by the country’s leading human rights lawyer and one of Britain’s most high-profile legal minds.
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Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as ‘the greatest living Australian’ and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him ‘an Australian who has had a vowel transplant’. Just before he was…
The QC and founder member of Charter 88 on how the human rights movement developed, what it should be and what hurdles it faces, not only from tyrants, but from…
On 18 October 1945, a day that would haunt him for ever, Airey Neave personally served the official indictments on the twenty-one top Nazis currently awaiting trial in Nuremberg. With…
The riveting autobiography from Australia’s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson. Funny, personal, and bringing Robertson’s fascinating and colourful career up to date following The Justice Game.
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes…
