Geoffrey Robertson
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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC (born September 30, 1946 in Sydney) is an Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship.
Geoffrey Robertson is head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a Recorder (judge) and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.
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[edit] Biography
Geoffrey Robertson was born in Australia and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood. He obtained his law degree from the Sydney University Law School before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford.
Robertson married author Kathy Lette in 1990 and currently lives with her and their two children in London.
[edit] Legal career
Robertson has worked for the European Court of Human Rights, the UN and various courts that examine human rights and constitutional law. He has served as a UN war crimes judge. He has worked on several cases on civil liberties throughout the Commonwealth and Europe. He also defended several people involved in private prosecutions brought by British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse.
[edit] Media career
Over a twenty year period, often with long intervals in between, Robertson has hosted an Australian television series of programmes called Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals. These shows invite notable people, often including former and current political leaders, to discuss contemporary issues by assuming imagined identities in hypothetical situations.
[edit] Geoffrey Robertson the writer
Robertson has written several books. One of them, The Justice Game is on the school curriculum in New South Wales, Australia.
His latest book, The Tyrannicide Brief, details the story of John Cooke, who prosecuted King Charles I of England in the treason trial that sent him to the scaffold; at the Restoration Cooke was himself convicted of high treason and sent to the gallows.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Tyrannicide Brief, Chatto & Windus, 2005
- Crimes Against Humanity - The Struggle for Global Justice, Alan Lane, 1999; revised 2002 (Penguin paperback) and 2006
- The Justice Game, 1998 Chatto; Viking edition 1999
- Media Law (with Andrew Nicol QC), Fourth edition, November 2001, Sweet and Maxwell
- Freedom the Individual and the Law, Penguin, 1993 (7th ed)
- Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals - A New Collection, ABC, 1991
- Does Dracula Have Aids?, Angus and Robertson, 1987
- Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, Angus and Robertson, 1986
- People Against the Press, Quartet, 1983
- Obscenity, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1979
- Reluctant Judas, Temple-Smith, 1976
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