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Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
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 ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$14.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE CASE OF THE POPEdelivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should h ...Show more
The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
"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, Art ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
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, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. 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. ooke was a plebeian, son of a poor far ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more
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