Author of the internationally-acclaimed Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson examines the chief hopes and challenges in the current struggle for global justice. As a founder of the human rights movement and one of three distinguished jurists on the UN's new Internal Justice Council, he draws on long and eminent experience as advocate, practitioner, and public intellectual. Informing his thought are lessons from the struggle for liberties in seventeenth-century England, which he explores in his recent introduction to The Levellers and his award-winning book The Tyrannicide Brief, a biography of King Charles I's prosecutor, John Cooke, and study of the first trial of a head of state.
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