Background
Robertson, Geoffrey Ronald was born on September 30, 1946 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Frank and Joy Robertson.
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Freedom, the Individual and the Law (Penguin Law S)
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People Against the Press: An Enquiry Into the Press Council
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Revised and Updated Edition
(The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the...)
The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition. For centuries it seemed an impossible dream that international institutions could ever tell nation-states how to treat their own citizens. But after a century in which 160 million lives have been wasted by war, genocide, and torture, the worldwide human rights movement is gaining popular and political strength. In a book that has been called "an epic work" by The Times (London), Geoffrey Robertson, one of the world's leading human rights lawyers, weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity, first defined at Nuremberg, has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international community to bring tyrants and torturers to heel. This newly revised and expanded edition features additional chapters on Iraq and Guantánamo, and incorporates insights from the author's experience since 2002 as a UN appeals judge for the Special Court on war crimes in Sierra Leone. Robertson also brings us up to date on the trials against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein and the International Criminal Court at Darfur.
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People Against the Press: Enquiry into the Operations of the Press Council by Geoffrey Robertson (1983-05-01)
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Obscenity (Law in Context) by Geoffrey Robertson (1979-05-31)
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
( When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Hum...)
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in international courts for genocide, torture, and mass murder. Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal framework requires constant evolution in order to stay relevant, and this newly revised and expanded volume brings the conversation up to date. In substantial new chapters, Robertson covers the protection of war correspondents, the problem of piracy, crimes against humanity in Syria, nuclear armament in Iran, and other challenges we are grappling with today. He criticizes the Obama administration’s policies around targeted killing” and the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other high value” detainees. By rendering a complex debate accessible, Robertson once again provides an essential guide for anyone looking to understand human rights and how to work toward a more complete blueprint for justice.
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The Justice Game
(Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London ...)
Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the most newsworthy cases in recent history. He has defended John Stonehouse, Cynthia Payne, Salman Rushdie, Kate Adie, Arthur Scargill, Daniel Sullivan, Gay News, 'The Romans of Britain', 'Niggaz with Attitude', and a pair of foetal earrings. The book includes accounts of recent cases including the defence of a West London gym owner against the Prince of Wales, the Matrix Churchill affair, and the defence of the Guardian in the cash-for-questions affair. Hugely readable, funny, scandalous, revelator, this will become one of the great books about the law.
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 2nd Edition (Penguin Law) by Geoffrey Robertson (1993-11-02)
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 1st Edition (Penguin law)
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First published in 1963, this is an updated account of the state of liberty in Britain and of the reforms that will be necessary to secure our freedoms in the 1990s.
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 2nd Edition (Penguin Law)
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Individual freedom is coming under more complicated and sophisticated threats, which only the law can combat. This book analyzes human-rights issues of the moment, such as media invasions of privacy, miscarriages of justice, the Runciman Royal Commission, euthanasia, Iraqgate at the Old Bailey, police and social-work malpractice, the new Broadcasting and Asylum Acts, attempts to control the security services, discrimination against women, blacks and homosexuals, satellite porn, sado-masochism and prisoners' rights. It criticizes the record of the Government, the public service, the media and the courts in protecting the freedoms of British citizens, explains the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and argues the case for urgent reforms, including a Freedom of Information Act and a Bill of Rights.
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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Sydney (Australia) U., 1966; Bachelor of Laws, Sydney (Australia) U., 1970; Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, 1972.
Career
Head, Doughty St. Chambers, since 1990. Visiting professor U. NSW, 1977, Warwick U., 1980-1981, U. London Birkbeck College, since 1997.
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 1st Edition (Penguin law)
(First published in 1963, this is an updated account of th...)
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
( When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Hum...)
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Revised and Updated Edition
(The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the...)
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 2nd Edition (Penguin Law)
(Individual freedom is coming under more complicated and s...)
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The Justice Game
(Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London ...)
- Freedom, the Individual and the Law (Penguin Law S)
- People Against the Press: An Enquiry Into the Press Council
- People Against the Press: Enquiry into the Operations of the Press Council by Geoffrey Robertson (1983-05-01)
- Obscenity (Law in Context) by Geoffrey Robertson (1979-05-31)
- Freedom The Individual And The Law 2nd Edition (Penguin Law) by Geoffrey Robertson (1993-11-02)
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Freedom The Individual And The Law 1st Edition (Penguin law)
Connections
Married Kathy Lette, 1990. Children: Julius Blake, Georgina Blaise.
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Australian