Geoffrey Robertson KC
International law & arbitrationextraditioninternational criminal lawinternational arbitrationinternational human rights lawinternational media defencepublic international lawdata protection and information lawmedia, defamation and freedom of expression, Doughty Street Chambers
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Position
Geoffrey Robertson KC is a Founding Head of Doughty Street Chambers.
He has had a distinguished career as a trial and appellate counsel, an international judge, and author of leading textbooks. He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law, in the European Court of Justice; the European Court of Human Rights; the Supreme Court (House of Lords and Privy Council); the UN War Crimes courts; the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in the highest courts of many commonwealth countries.
Education
Sydney University (BA LLB (Hons)); Oxford BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law); Rhodes Scholar; Honorary Doctorates: Sydney; Bucharest, Brunel University. Visiting professor, Regents University and the New College of the Humanities.