Sydney Law School
Distinguished Speakers Program 2011
Geoffrey Robertson QC
Humanitarian intervention and international law
Tue 19 April
6-7.15pm, lecture followed by a cocktail reception
We are pleased to announce that Geoffrey Robertson QC will now speak at Sydney Law School on 19 April as part of the Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program, which this year focuses on eminent alumni and friends of the Sydney Law School. Mr Robertson will speak on the topic: Humanitarian intervention and international law.
Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights practice, and a 'distinguished jurist' member of the United Nations Justice Council, having served as the first President of the Special Court in Sierra Leone. He is a Bencher of the Middle Temple; and a Recorder (part-time judge) in London; an executive Member of Justice, and a trustee of the Capital Cases Trust.
He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts, and in federal courts in many nations. Among numerable ground-breaking cases, he is currently serving as counsel to Julian Assange on the Wikileaks case, and has previously represented Tasmanian aborigines in the novel action which stopped the Natural History Museum from experimenting on the remains of their ancestors; defended the Chief Justice of Trinidad at impeachment proceedings; argued the Court of Appeal case which first defined 'terrorism' for the purpose of British law; argued for the right of the public to see royal wills; and represented a trust for the education of poor children in litigation in Anguilla over a billion dollar bequest.
Mr Robertson is a widely published author and contributor to publications, and also writes and broadcasts regularly on international legal issues and creates Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals for television and for ethics education.
Registration will commence at 5.30pm for a 6-7.15pm lecture, followed by a cocktail reception until 8pm.
For further information, or to register, please click here. Please note that registration and payment is required in advance of the event.
Registration*
Full fee: $25 inc GST
F/T student: $10 inc GST
Sydney Law School alumni: $20 inc GST
*Cost includes cocktail reception following the lecture.
Venue:
Auditorium (LT101)
Sydney Law School
New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue
The University of Sydney (Camperdown campus)
This lecture is presented as part of the Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2011. Click here for the latest program information.
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