wyszukanych pozycji: 13
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
ISBN: 9780307386373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I was beheaded, but eleven years later Cooke himself was arrested, tried, and executed at the hands of Charles II.
Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned human rights lawyer, provides a vivid new reading... Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring...
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80,48 |
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An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
ISBN: 9781849548977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "With a brilliant display of forensic advocacy, one of the greatest legal minds on the international stage forces a shameful but inconvenient truth upon the world."--Helena Kennedy, QC Winner Polemic of the Year, The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015 On April 24th, 2015 people around the world commemorated the centenary of the death of over one million Armenians. In their eyes, and in those of many around the world, they will be remembering a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire. Turkey has always explained the dead as simply victims of a vicious civil war, and... "With a brilliant display of forensic advocacy, one of the greatest legal minds on the international stage forces a shameful but inconvenient truth... |
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Lawfare
ISBN: 9780008607890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,31 |
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold
ISBN: 9780099459194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1649, no lawyer in the country would accept the brief of prosecuting Charles I, except one -- John Cook, the bravest of barristers, who was killed as punishment for sending the King to the scaffold.
"From the Hardcover edition."
In 1649, no lawyer in the country would accept the brief of prosecuting Charles I, except one -- John Cook, the bravest of barristers, who was killed ...
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
ISBN: 9781595588609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in international courts for genocide, torture, and mass murder. Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal...
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In ...
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The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
ISBN: 9780241953846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In The Case of the Pope Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law? Geoffrey Robertson QC, a distinguished human rights lawyer and judge, evinces a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless...
In The Case of the Pope Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paed...
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87,41 |
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Rather His Own Man: In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers
ISBN: 9781785904936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Geoffrey Robertson led students in the '60s to demand an end to racism and censorship. He went on to become a top human rights advocate, saving the lives of many death-row inmates, freeing dissidents and taking on tyrants in a career marked by courage, determination and a fierce independence. In this witty, honest and sometimes irreverent memoir, he recalls battles on behalf of George Harrison and Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and Vaclav Havel, Mike Tyson and the Sex Pistols, and battles against General Pinochet, Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Thatcher (the true story of Spycatcher is told for the...
Geoffrey Robertson led students in the '60s to demand an end to racism and censorship. He went on to become a top human rights advocate, saving the li...
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The Justice Game
ISBN: 9780099581918 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Geoffrey Robertson made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at that publication's celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the more newsworthy cases in recent history. The Justice Game presents Robertson's memoirs.
Geoffrey Robertson made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at that publication's celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the m...
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75,44 |
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs: Injustice Within the Law
ISBN: 9781920899493 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,81 |
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The Trial of Vladimir Putin
ISBN: 9781785908675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights
ISBN: 9781785906640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. At a time when international criminal law is faltering, the global justice movement must look to local Magnitsky laws as a means of naming, blaming and shaming human rights violators.
At a time when international criminal law is faltering, the global justice movement must look to local Magnitsky laws as a means of naming, blaming an...
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95,57 |
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice
ISBN: 9781802063240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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100,64 |
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World of War Crimes: Eyeless in Gaza... and Beyond
ISBN: 9781785909771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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100,64 |