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Geoffrey Robertson

Geoffrey Robertson is a leading human-rights lawyer and United Nations war-crimes judge. Among his books are Crimes Against Humanity (Penguin, 2002) and The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold (Chatto & Windus, 2005).

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Torture: the human-rights answer

The unequivocal lesson of history and current politics is that torture corrodes the bonds of law and humanity that underpin any society with a claim to be civilised, says Geoffrey Robertson.

'The Tyrannicide Brief': an extract

The radical lawyer John Cooke prosecuted England’s king, Charles I, in 1649 – and in doing so opened a chapter in legal history that reverberates 356 years later. Geoffrey Robertson, in an extract from his book “The Tyrannicide Brief”, describes Cooke’s pivotal role and assesses its modern implications.

The tyrant's flaw: Geoffrey Robertson interviewed

The prosecutor of England’s king, Charles I, in 1649 conceived the modern principle of holding tyrants legally to account for their violations. The human-rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson tells openDemocracy’s Charlie Devereux why he regards John Cooke as a hero for our time.