Geoffrey Robertson AO KC has had a distinguished career as a trial counsel and human rights advocate. He has served as a United Nations war crimes judge and the first President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, appeared as counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He is the founder of Doughty Street Chambers, the largest human rights practice in Europe, a Master of the Middle Temple, and a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London.
His book Crimes Against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement. His other books include Freedom, the Individual and the Law, The Tyrannicide Brief, The Statute of Liberty, Dreaming Too Loud, the acclaimed memoir The Justice Game and, most recently, World of War Crimes, published by Penguin in 2025. He has made many television and radio programmes, notably Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, and has won a Freedom of Information award for his writing and broadcasting.
In 2008 he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a distinguished jurist member of the UN Internal Justice Council. In 2011 he received the New York State Bar Association's award for distinction in international law and affairs, and in 2014 he was named Australian Humanitarian of the Year. In 2018 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his distinguished service to the law and the legal profession as an international human rights lawyer and advocate for global civil liberties.
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