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Geoffrey Robertson

Born

in Sydney, Australia

September 30, 1946

Genre

Law, International Affairs, Human Rights

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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC (born 30 September 1946) is a human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship.

Robertson is a founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Donald Trump has declared war on international justice. Australia must speak up | Geoffrey Robertson

The ICC sanction is designed to intimidate and stop it from working against war criminals, Geoffrey Robertson writes

Donald Trump has declared war on international justice by the dictatorial device of an executive order. He has sanctioned the international criminal court. This empowers him to seize any funds belonging to the court or its judges or employees and to ban them from entering the US. He

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Average rating: 3.98 · 2,563 ratings · 296 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors

	Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice 4.09 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1999 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Justice Game 3.92 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold 4.20 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rather His Own Man 3.97 avg rating — 276 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? 4.21 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure 3.75 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming Too Loud 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights 3.84 avg rating — 62 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lawfare 3.61 avg rating — 64 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To the end that no chief officer or magistrate may hereafter presume traitorously or maliciously to imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of the English nation, and expect impunity for so doing … In this final flourish is found the principle that justified the trial of Charles I in the eyes of weary soldiers and their supporters in Parliament and the city. It was a means of deterring future tyrants from maltreating their own people. It was designed to end the impunity which Machiavelli had argued in The Prince should always protect rulers from the consequences of their crimes. When”
― Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold

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“What should distress modern Australians, in addition to the virulence of the racism which infected these founding fathers, is the fact that it blinded them to the advantage of adopting, like the US, a code of universal human values, a bedrock of principles upon which Australian law could develop logically and humanely. Thus Australia was endowed with a supreme law – its constitution – which lacked any systemic protection for citizen liberties.”
― Geoffrey Robertson, Rather His Own Man

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