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This brilliant deep-dive into international law offers a unique perspective onto an unjust war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and threatens to overturn the accepted world order, through the lens of its key protagonist.

*New and expanded edition, with an extra chapter on the war in Ukraine*In Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder.He shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. This seminal work contains a critical perspective on events such as the invasion of Iraq, the abuses...

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How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them.

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.

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 are being developed by the courts.

In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia's inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights throughout the world. He wryly observes the absurdities of growing up as one of 'Ming's kids', the passion of student protest in the sixties an...

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 up to date.

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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 ...

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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 they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke.

Geoffrey Robertson, a former UN appeals judge, sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the massacres and deportations of over one million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 were a crime against humanity that amounted to genocide. Now in paperback.

En esta nueva edición del libro que ha inspirado el movimiento por la justicia global, Geoffrey Robertson explica por qué debemos responsabilizar a los líderes políticos y militares de los genocidios, las torturas y los asesinatos en masa -los crímenes contra la humanidad que han desfigurado el mundo. Muestra cómo puede obligarse a los gobiernos, ejércitos y corporaciones multinacionales crueles a cumplir los principios básicos de los derechos...

The entertaining memoirs of high-profile barrister, Geoffrey Robertson, who counts John Stonehouse, Cynthia Payne, Salman Rushdie, NWA and Arthur Scargill amongst his many clients. "A fluent, witty writer with a gift for anecdote" )Observer(.