Geoffrey Robertson#Media career

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| name = Geoffrey Robertson

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,||AO|KC}}

| birth_name = Geoff Ronald Robertson{{cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/rather-his-own-man-by-geoffrey-robertson/news-story/1e4f1b967b66a79af6132349afde7fde|title=Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson|first=Roy|last= Williams|newspaper=The Australian|date=2 March 2018|access-date=4 May 2019|url-access=subscription|quote=Young Geoff Robertson – the 'Geoffrey' was a later affectation for Hypotheticals}}

| image = Geoffrey Robertson.jpg

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| caption = At the 2009 Ideas Festival in Brisbane, Australia

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|9|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

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| citizenship = Australian, British

| education = University of Sydney (BA, LLB)
University College, Oxford (BCL)

| occupation = {{hlist|Lawyer|author|broadcaster|academic}}

| title = King's Counsel

| spouse = {{marriage|Kathy Lette|1990|2017|end=separated}}

| children = 2 (including Jules Robertson)

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| employer = Doughty Street Chambers

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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO|KC}} (born 30 September 1946){{cite book|title=Who's Who 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEt2PgAACAAJ|page=1960|date=1 December 2009|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4081-1414-8}} is an Australian-British barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Robertson is a founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers.{{cite web|url=http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/geoffrey_robertson_qc.cfm|title=Geoffrey Robertson QC|access-date=29 March 2009|date=May 2007|publisher=Doughty Street Chambers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309151322/http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/geoffrey_robertson_qc.cfm|archive-date=9 March 2009|url-status=dead}} He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London.[http://geoffreyrobertson.com/ A few words about Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.], geoffreyrobertson.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327195023/http://geoffreyrobertson.com/ |date=27 March 2019 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/robertson.html |title=Geoffrey Robertson, School of Law|publisher=Queen Mary University of London|access-date=20 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227083450/http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/robertson.html |archive-date=27 December 2008 }}

Early life and education

Robertson was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in the suburb of Eastwood.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1448925.htm |title=Enough Rope with Andrew Denton – episode 92: Geoffrey Robertson |publisher=ABC Australia|date=29 August 2005 |access-date=20 February 2011}} His father, Frank, who would go on to be a senior officer of the Commonwealth Bank, and later a stockbroker,{{Cite web |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/businessrobbery-etc-5/ |title=Business/Robbery etc {{pipe}} the Spectator |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-date=30 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930030936/http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/businessrobbery-etc-5/ |url-status=dead }} survived an RAAF training flight crash in Chiltern, Victoria, in 1943.Cassidy, Barrie (24 April 2015), [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/cassidy-the-raaf-trainee-who-crash-landed-on-a-roof/6415896 "The RAAF trainee who crash landed on a roof"], ABC News (Australia).{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-27/road-back-home-barrie-cassidy-on-chiltern-raaf-crashlanding/8457816|title=How a RAAF teenage trainee pilot crashed a Wirraway plane on Chiltern home and survived|first=Barrie|last=Cassidy|author-link=Barrie Cassidy|work=ABC News (Australia)|date=26 September 2017}}

He went to Epping Boys High School and then attended the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 and a Bachelor of Laws with First-Class Honours in 1970, before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law from University College in 1972.{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Chu |title=Geoffrey Robertson QC: The Great Defender |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/geoffrey-robertson-qc-the-great-defender-2157455.html|newspaper=The Independent |date=11 December 2010 |access-date=28 January 2011}}[https://portrait.gov.au/people/geoffrey-roland-robertson-1946 "Geoffrey R. Robertson AO KC"] (description of photograph by Polly Borland), National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 2022 In 2006 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Sydney.[http://www.alumni.sydney.edu.au/s/965/index.aspx?sid=965&gid=1&pgid=357 Eminent alumni], University of Sydney

Awards

Robertson won Australian Humanist of the Year in 2014 for his work as a human rights lawyer and advocate.{{cite web|url=https://humanistsaustralia.org/awards/ahoy-2014-geoffrey-ronald-robertson|title=Humanists Australia Awards|access-date= 3 March 2021}}

Legal career

Robertson became a barrister in 1973, and was appointed QC in 1988. He became well known after acting as defence counsel in the celebrated English criminal trials of OZ, Gay News, the ABC trial, The Romans in Britain (the prosecution brought by Mary Whitehouse),{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6714782.ece?token=null&offset=84&page=8|title=The Times Law 100 2009 – Geoffrey Robertson|work=The Times|date=23 July 2009|access-date=20 February 2011}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Randle & Pottle, the Brighton bombing and Matrix Churchill.{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Geoffrey|title=The Justice Game|year=1999|publisher=Vintage|location=London|isbn=978-0-09-958191-8}} He also defended the artist J. S. G. Boggs from a private prosecution brought by the Bank of England regarding his depictions of British currency.

In 1989 and 1990 he led the defence team for Rick Gibson, a Canadian artist, and Peter Sylveire, a director of an art gallery, who were charged with outraging public decency for exhibiting earrings made from human foetuses.{{citation | last= Bowcott | first= Owen | title= Artistic merit defence 'should be open to foetus earring pair' | newspaper= The Guardian | location= London| date= 31 January 1989 }}{{citation | last= Mills | first= Heather | author-link= Heather Mills (journalist) | title= 'Foetuses as art' case hinges on common law |newspaper=The Independent| location= London| date= 31 January 1989 }}{{citation | last= Wolmar | first= Christian | author-link= Christian Wolmar | title= Nusiance charge in foetus case dismissed |newspaper=The Independent| location= London| date= 7 February 1989 }}R v Gibson and another. Court of Appeal, Criminal Division. [1991] 1 All ER 439, [1990] 2 QB 619, [1990] 3 WLR 595, [1990] Crim LR 738, 91 Cr App Rep 341, 155 JP 126.

He has also acted in well known libel cases, including defending The Guardian against Neil Hamilton MP. Robertson was threatened by terrorists for representing Salman Rushdie.{{cite news |first=Alison |last=Flood |title=Call for compensation after shelving of Islam novel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/12/islam |newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 August 2008 |access-date=18 August 2008}}

In 1972 he advised Peter Hain as a McKenzie friend when Hain defended himself on several charges including conspiracy to trespass arising from his involvement in anti-apartheid protests, as a protest against the apartheid regime. During the ten-day trial at the Old Bailey Hain dismissed his QCs, but retained Robertson and another as advisers, before being convicted and fined £200. Robertson was also employed to defend John Stonehouse after his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974.

In March 2000 in the Independent Schools Tribunal, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, he successfully defended A. S. Neill's Summerhill School, a private free school. The proceedings were brought by OFSTED on behalf of David Blunkett, the Education Minister, who was seeking the closure of the school.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/24/schools.news1|title=Radical boarding school escapes closure threat|newspaper=The Guardian|date=24 March 2000|access-date=29 January 2011|first=Rebecca|last=Smithers}} The case was later dramatised by Tiger Aspect Productions in a TV series entitled Summerhill and broadcast on BBC Four and CBBC.{{cite web|url=http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/bbc-drama.html|title=Summerhill|publisher=Tiger Aspect/Summerhill|date=21 January 2004|access-date=29 January 2011|archive-date=16 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116010411/http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/bbc-drama.html|url-status=dead}}

In August 2000, Robertson was retained by the heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson for a hearing before the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC). The disciplinary hearing related to two counts relating to Tyson's behaviour – failing to stop throwing punches after the referee had stopped the fight – after his 38-second victory over Lou Savarese in Glasgow in June that year. Tyson escaped a ban from fighting in Britain.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/23/sports/plus-boxing-tyson-is-fined-for-misconduct.html|title=Tyson Is Fined for Misconduct|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=23 August 2000 |access-date=12 June 2011}} Robertson successfully deployed a defence of freedom of expression for Tyson, the first use before the BBBoC, but Tyson was convicted on the other count and fined.{{cite news|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/08/24/promoter-promises-no-more-tyson-fights/|access-date=24 July 2024|title=Promoter promises no more Tyson fights|date=28 September 2005|orig-date=24 August 2000|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times}}

In 2002 he defended Dow Jones in Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick, a case where Joseph Gutnick, an Australian mining magnate, sued Dow Jones after an article critical of him was published on the website of Barron's newspaper. Gutnick successfully applied to the High Court of Australia, requesting for the case to be heard in Australia rather than the United States, where the First Amendment protects free speech. Robertson then appealed the case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The case was described as a "very worrying decision" as it potentially opened the door for libel cases related to internet publishing to be heard in any country and in multiple countries for the same article.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article800733.ece|title=Net libel actions can be brought anywhere in world|first1=Roger|last1=Maynard|first2=Frances|last2=Gibb|newspaper=The Times|date=11 December 2002|access-date=5 December 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

In December 2002 Robertson was retained by The Washington Post to represent its veteran war correspondent, Jonathan Randal, in The Hague at the United Nations Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He established the principle of qualified privilege for the protection of journalists in war crimes courts.{{cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/comlaw20&div=34&id=&page=|title=International Tribunal Recognizes Qualified Privilege for War Correspondents|author1=Eric Lieberman|author2=Fiona Campbell|journal=Communications Lawyer|number=10|date=Winter 2003|volume=20|page=10|access-date=27 January 2011}}

In 2006 Geoffrey Robertson successfully defended The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in Jameel v Wall Street Journal Europe. The case centred on an article published in the WSJ in 2002, which alleged that the United States were monitoring the bank accounts of a Saudi Arabian businessman to ensure he was not funding terrorists. Jameel, who was represented by Carter-Ruck, was originally awarded £40,000 in damages but this was overturned in favour of the WSJ. The case was viewed by The Lawyer as a landmark case which redefined the earlier case of Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd, upholding the right to publish if it is deemed to be in the public interest.{{cite magazine|first=Joanne |last=Harris |url=http://www.thelawyer.com/finers-wins-landmark-libel-ruling-for-wall-street-journal/122350.article |title=Finers wins landmark libel ruling for Wall Street Journal |magazine=The Lawyer|date=11 October 2006 |access-date=24 January 2011}}{{subscription required}}

In early 2007, instructed by the Indigenous lawyer Michael Mansell, Robertson took proceedings for the Aboriginal Tasmanians to recover 15 sets of their stolen ancestral remains, then being held in the basement of the Natural History Museum in London. He accused the museum of wishing to retain them for "genetic prospecting".{{cite web|url= http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1853611.htm|title=Aboriginal remains row|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=21 February 2007 |access-date=29 January 2011}}

Robertson has appeared in cases before the European Court of Human Rights and in other courts across the world.{{cite book|author1=Brett Bowden|author2=Michael T. Davis|title=Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZjj87U6v9AC&pg=PR17|access-date=2 February 2011|year=2008|publisher=University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-3599-3|pages=17–}}

Among these, Robertson was involved in the defence of Michael X in Trinidad and has appeared for the defence in a libel case against the former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. He was also involved in the controversial inquest of Helen Smith and also in the Blom-Cooper Commission inquiry into the smuggling of guns from Israel through Antigua to Colombia.

Robertson has been on several human rights missions on behalf of Amnesty International, such as to Mozambique, Venda, Czechoslovakia, Malawi, Vietnam and South Africa.

Until 2007 he sat as an appeal judge at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone.{{cite news|first=Rory|last= Carroll|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/10/westafrica.sierraleone|title=War crimes QC under pressure to quit after bias claims|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 March 2004|access-date=20 February 2011}}{{cite news|last=Davies|first=Hugh|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sierraleone/1456752/UN-judge-defies-claims-of-bias.html|title=UN judge defies claims of bias|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=13 March 2004|access-date=20 February 2011}}

In 2010 Robertson unsuccessfully defended Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in extradition proceedings in the United Kingdom.

In 2013 Robertson was appointed an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.secularism.org.uk/geoffrey-robertson-qc.html |title=Geoffrey Robertson QC |publisher=National Secular Society|access-date=17 October 2014}}

On 28 January 2015 he represented Armenia with barrister Amal Clooney at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the Perinçek v. Switzerland case.[http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/echr-adjourns-ruling-on-turkeys-workers-party-chair-over-1915-statements.aspx?pageID=238&nID=77571&NewsCatID=338 "ECHR adjourns ruling on Turkey's Worker's Party chair over 1915 statements"], Hürriyet Daily News, 28 January 2015 He called Doğu Perinçek a "vexatious litigant pest" at the ECHR hearing.Third Party – Armenian Government's observations, Hearing of Perincek v. Switzerland Case 28 January 2015, European Court of Human Rights, [http://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=hearings&w=2751008_28012015&language=en&c=fra&py=2015 video]{{YouTube|62dDR-K6KpY|Robertson's speech in ECHR hearing of Perinçek v. Switzerland case}}

From 2016, Robertson has been representing former Brazilian president Lula da Silva with appeals to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding Lula's treatment by the Brazilian justice system.{{cite web|last1=Robertson|first1=Geoffrey|title=The case for Lula|url=http://geoffreyrobertson.com/the-case-for-lula/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103221809/http://geoffreyrobertson.com/the-case-for-lula/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2018|website=Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.|access-date=10 April 2018}}[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/brazil/2017-04-19/case-lula "The Case for Lula"] by Geoffrey Robertson, Foreign Affairs, 19 April 2017

Robertson is a patron of the Media Legal Defence Initiative.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediadefence.org/people.html |title=People |publisher=Media Legal Defence Initiative|access-date=20 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317184132/http://www.mediadefence.org/people.html |archive-date=17 March 2011}}

Media career

Since 11 March 1984,{{cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/geoffrey-robertsons-hypothetical-sunday-program|access-date=24 July 2024|title=Geoffrey Robertson segment on Sunday|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|author=Richard Vorobieff}} often with long intervals in between, Robertson has hosted the Australian television series Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals on ABC TV.{{IMDb title|6817274|Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals|(1985–2014) 28 episodes}} These shows invite notable people, often including former and current political leaders, to discuss contemporary issues by assuming imagined identities in hypothetical situations. Robertson published printed collections of these in 1986 and 1991. In 2022, the Hypothetical "All at Sea" was staged at the Darling Harbour Theatre in Sydney and later broadcast by Radio National.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/specialbroadcasts/geoffrey-robertsons-hypothetical/14102456|access-date=24 July 2024|title=Program: Geoffrey Robertson's Hypothetical Part 1|type=audio, 1 hour 48 minutes|publisher=Radio National|date=24 December 2022}} Further stage shows were presented around Australia in 2024.{{cite web|url=https://lateralevents.com/theatre-events/geoffrey-robertson-2024/|access-date=24 July 2024|title=Live on Stage – How do we Fix a Turbulent World?|publisher=Later Evenets Management|date=May 2024}}

He speaks at public events including many literary festivals. In 2009 he spoke at the Ideas Festival in Brisbane, Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/whatson/brisbane-ideas-festival/2009/03/20/1237526320317.html|title=Brisbane Ideas Festival|first=Katherine|last=Feeney|work=Brisbane Times|date=20 March 2009|access-date=20 February 2011}} Robertson appeared several times on the Australian panel discussion program Q+A, first in 2010 on a special program from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.{{cite web|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2010/10/q-a-oct-4.html|access-date=24 July 2024|title=Q & A: Oct 4|publisher=TV Tonight|date=1 October 2010|author=David Knox}}

Writing career

Robertson has written many books. One of them, The Justice Game (1998), is on the school curriculum in New South Wales, Australia.{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8425207 |title=Geoffrey Robertson's The Justice Game : study notes for Advanced English Module C / Bruce Pattinson|via=Trove|date=25 January 2011 |access-date=13 March 2011}}

His 2005 book The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold details the story of John Cooke, who prosecuted Charles I of England in the treason trial that led to his execution.{{cite web|url=http://www.metroactive.com/metro/10.04.06/tyrannicide-brief-0640.html |title=Books & Literature: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold|publisher=Metroactive.com |date=10 April 2006 |access-date=20 February 2011}} After the Stuart Restoration, Cooke was convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered.

In his 2006 revision of Crimes Against Humanity, Robertson deals in detail with human rights, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The book starts with the history of human rights and has several case studies such as the case of General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, the Balkans Wars, and the 2003 Iraq War. His views on the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan can be considered controversial. He considers the Hiroshima bomb was certainly justified, and that the second bomb on Nagasaki was most probably justified but that it might have been better if it was dropped outside a city. His argument is that the bombs, while killing more than 100,000 civilians, were justified because they pushed Emperor Hirohito of Japan to surrender, thus saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of allied forces, as well as Japanese soldiers and civilians.{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Geoffrey|year=2006|title=Crimes Against Humanity|publisher=Penguin|edition=3rd|page=258|isbn=978-0-14-103728-8}}

In his 2010 book, The Case of the Pope, Robertson claims that Pope Benedict XVI is guilty of protecting pedophiles because the church swore the victims to secrecy and moved perpetrators in Catholic Church sex abuse cases to other positions where they had access to children while knowing the perpetrators were likely to reoffend.{{cite journal|title=The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse|type=book review|url=http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/story.asp?storycode=16963 |first=Thom|last=Dyke|journal=Solicitors Journal|access-date=25 June 2011|date=20 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929162757/http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/story.asp?storycode=16963|archive-date=29 September 2011}} This, Robertson believes, constitutes the crime of assisting underage sex and when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, the retired pope approved this policy up to November 2002. In Robertson's opinion, the Vatican is not a sovereign state and the pope is not immune to prosecution.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/apr/02/pope-legal-immunity-international-law|title=Put the pope in the dock|first=Geoffrey|last= Robertson|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 April 2010}}

In An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? (2014) Robertson presents an argument based on fact, evidence and his knowledge of international law, claiming that the horrific events that occurred in 1915 constitute genocide.

Personal life

In 1990, Robertson married the author Kathy Lette, and they lived together in London with their children until their separation in 2017.{{cite news |date=24 July 2017 |title=Kathy Lette confirms split from husband Geoffrey Robertson |work=news.com.au |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/hook-ups-break-ups/kathy-lette-confirms-split-from-husband-geoffrey-robertson/news-story/df94d87e3630a7faa52eb528af66a768 |access-date=14 December 2019}} They had met in 1988 during the filming of an episode of Hypothetical for ABC Television; Robertson was dating Nigella Lawson at the time and Lette was married to Kim Williams.{{cite web |date=30 September 2002 |title=The Big Chill |url=http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s685468.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021021212902/http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s685468.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2002 |access-date=29 March 2009 |work=Australian Story |publisher=ABC Television |type=transcript}} In Robertson's 2010 Who's Who entry, his hobbies are listed as tennis, opera and fishing.

Robertson became a British citizen in 2003.{{cite news |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/struggle-for-justice-is-theme-of-my-life-geoffrey-robertson-qc-takes-australia-day-honour/news-story/a865cd50395784f343fd90c4d4909639 |title='Struggle for justice is theme of my life': Geoffrey Robertson QC takes Australia Day honour |author=Ellen Whinnett |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=26 January 2018}}

Bibliography

Reluctant Judas, Temple-Smith, 1976
Obscenity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
People Against the Press, Quartet, 1983
Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, Angus & Robertson, 1986
Does Dracula Have Aids?, Angus & Robertson, 1987
Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals – A New Collection, ABC, 1991
Freedom the Individual and the Law, Penguin, 1993 (7th ed)
The Justice Game, 1998 Chatto; Viking edition 1999
Crimes Against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice, Alan Lane, 1999; revised 2002 (Penguin paperback) and 2006 {{ISBN|0141024631}}
The Tyrannicide Brief, Chatto & Windus, 2005
Media Law (with Andrew Nicol QC), Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition, 2008
Statute of Liberty, Vintage Books Australia, March 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-74166-682-3}}
Was there an Armenian Genocide? ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092456/http://www.geoffreyrobertson.com/pdf/ArmenianGenocideGRQC.pdf online]), October 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-9564086-0-0}}
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse, Penguin, October 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-241-95384-6}}
The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1988, with Sarah Graham, Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0984405404}}; and Addendum 2013, {{ISBN|9780984405435}}; see 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.
Mullahs Without Mercy: How to Stop Iran's First Nuclear Strike, Vintage, October 2012, {{ISBN|9781742758213}}
Dreaming too loud : Reflections on a race apart, Vintage, 2013, {{ISBN|9780857981899}}
Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK, Biteback Publishing, 2013, {{ISBN|9781849546904}}
An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?, 2014
Rather His Own Man: Reliable Memoirs, 2018{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/geoffrey-robertson-human-rights-crusader-honoured-on-australia-day-with-order-of-australia-20180125-h0o2w1.html|title=Geoffrey Robertson, human rights crusader, honoured on Australia Day with Order of Australia|first=Deborah|last=Snow|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=25 January 2018}}
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure, Biteback Publishing, 2019, {{ISBN|9781785905216}}
[https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-trial-of-vladimir-putin The Trial of Vladimir Putin], Biteback Publishing, 2024 {{ISBN|9781785908675}}

References

External links

{{Internet Archive author |sname = Geoffrey Robertson}}
[https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/geoffrey-robertson-qc Geoffrey Robertson QC, profile] at Doughty Street Chambers website
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[http://www.brh.org.uk/heads2008/revolution.html Audio on a talk about the trial of King Charles I by Geoffrey Robertson for Bristol Radical History Group]
{{YouTube|0a9gAfLncAI|Robertson discusses the Armenian Genocide|link=no}}, Charlie Rose, 16 March 2015
[https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/irans-president-raisi-mullah-without-mercy-evades-justice/news-story/561f944aa51919a87cd8aa5774afb696 "Iran's President Raisi: mullah without mercy evades justice"], The Australian, 26 June 2021 (on Ebrahim Raisi)