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Geoffrey Robertson
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine and the continuing war in Gaza
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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…
Geoffrey Robertson, QC
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.
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This brilliant deep dive into international law offers a unique perspective on an unjust war, highlighting why democracy is not safe unless Putin can be put - at least metaphorically…
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How Russians, the rich and the government try to prevent free speech and how to stop them.
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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 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…
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Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the difficult debate surrounding the Armenian Genocide.
Geoffrey Robertson focuses his razor-sharp mind on one of the greatest contemporary issues in the worlds of art and culture: the return of cultural property taken from its country of…
Herbert Vere Evatt
The legend of the six rural labourers who were transported to Australia in 1834 for swearing an oath of solidarity is celebrated as the foundation of the modern trade union…
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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.
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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…
Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the most controversial question that is still being asked about World War One.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Geoffrey Robertson’s Plan B for punishing human rights abusers: ‘Magnitsky Laws’, which could impose debilitating sanctions on ‘bad people’.
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…
Geoffrey Robertson Qc
This Persian version of the report by a leading UN jurist establishes that many of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran - including the Supreme Leader - committed…
Bruce Pattinson
This series has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of…
Sarah Graham,Geoffrey Robertson Qc
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…
The Levellers
The dramatic debates at the heart of the English Revolution
Geoffrey Elliott
The biography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude
Geoffrey Horne
‘Olivia’s Secret Love’ is the sequel to ‘Olivia’s Teenage Challenge’. Now, aged fourteen and a half, a new and exciting friendship seems to be developing with a friend’s older brother…
‘Olivia’s Blue Mountains Adventure’ is the sequel to ‘Olivia’s Secret Love’ and continues the story of her romance with her boyfriend Samuel.
Ian Robertson Sinclair,Geoffrey E. Lewis
This second edition has been updated to be fully in line with the Electronics Servicing NVQ level 2 and RVQ from City and Guilds. It provides all the essential information…
The volume contains more than 70 papers covering the important topics and issues in metallurgy today including papers as follows: keynote papers covering a tribute to David Robertson, workforce skills…
