achived URL: http://law.case.edu/centers/cox/webcast.asp?dt=20081106

event website URL: http://law.case.edu/centers/cox/webcast.asp?dt=20081106

start date and time: Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM

end date and time: Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 5:50 PM

categories:   legal & courtroom   philanthropy & humanitarianism

event description:

video webcast -

Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH presents the Klatsky Seminar in Human Rights, entitled "The Future of Human Rights," presented by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. Geoffrey Robertson, Queen's Counsel and Appeals Judge, Special Court for Sierra Leone, presents the lecture.

Highlights of Geoffrey Robertson's career include:

- Founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers

- Appeals judge (part-time) of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone

- Argued 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

- Recently appeared in the Court of Final Appeal for Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Malaysia, the Fiji Court of Appeal, the High Court of Australia and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

- Delivered internationally important decisions on the illegality of conscripting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for war crimes as a UN Appeal judge

- Conducted missions to South Africa and Vietnam for Amnesty International

- Led the 1992 Bar Council/Law Society Human Rights mission to Malawi

- Counsel (1990) to the Royal Commission investigating traffick in arms and mercenaries to the Columbian drug-cartels

- Author of:
- The Tyrannicide Brief - won a "Silver Gavel" award from the American Bar Association for its literary and educational excellence
- Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
- Media Law (with Andrew Nicol QC)
- Freedom, the Individual and the Law
- The Justice Game (a memoir). His latest book,
- Reluctant Judas
- Obscenity
- People Against the Press
- Does Dracula Have Aids?
- Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals

- Received a 1991 BAFTA "Best Play" nomination for his play, "The Trials of Oz"

- Received a 1993 Freedom of Information Award

- Recorder, Master of the Middle Temple, Council Member of Justice, Trustee of the Capital Cases Trust and a Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary College, University of London

sponsor's website: http://law.case.edu/