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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: Politics
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: Politics | Reading Level: very good
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: Culture & Ideas
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. H ...Show more
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
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
34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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: Biography & Memoir
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
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
14.95 AUD
Category: Politics
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 Putney Debates by Philip Baker (Editor); Geoffrey Robertson (Introduction by); The Levellers
22.99 AUD
Category: History
In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parlia ...Show more
The Statute of Liberty: How Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson
22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju ...Show more