Geoffrey Robertson, QC, on "Ending Impunity: The Struggle for Global Justice
Announcing a public lecture by Geoffrey Robertson, QC, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies School of Law, the University of London School of Advanced Studies Human Rights Consortium, and the London Transitional Justice Network, a Public Lecture by Geoffrey Robertson, QC, on: “Ending Impunity: The Struggle for Global Justice”.
The lecture will take place Monday, 21 November, 2011, at 7 pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre in the main SOAS building on Thornhaough Street at Russell Square. The event is open and free to the public. Please save the date: formal announcement to follow.
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Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK’s largest human rights practice. He is a ‘distinguished jurist’ member of the UN’s Justice Council, and was the first president of its war crimes court in Sierra Leone where he delivered ground-breaking judgments on the illegality of recruiting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for crimes against humanity. He was active in the prosecution of General Pinochet and Hastings Banda, and the defence of Salman Rushdie and Julian Assange. His books include “Crimes Against Humanity” (Penguin), “The Justice Game” (Vintage) and “The Case of The Pope – Vatican Accountability for Human rights Abuses”. (A Penguin Special).
