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An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
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
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
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 internat ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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 to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY' Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of "free speech" is a myth. From the middl ...Show more
Mullahs Without Mercy Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons (1st Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster. - What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or America bombing Iran? - Will our children ever live in a world without nuclear weapons? - Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapo ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning his Conviction by Geoffrey Robertson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In the summer of '61 John Profumo, Minister for War, enjoyed a brief affair with Christine Keeler...Late in the afternoon of Wednesday 31 July 1963, Dr Stephen Ward was convicted at the Old Bailey on two counts alleging that he lived on the earnings of a prostitute. He was not in the dock but comatose i ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$15.00 AUD
Category: Religion
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"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 Statute of Liberty: How Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
The Australian people emerged from a polyglot mixture of nationalities and other races: a kind of human minestrone. Not only a race, but a race apart, thanks to the kindness of distance. What distinctive moral vision have we attained from the struggles and sacrifices of our forebears? If we are to prese ...Show more