Geoffrey Robertson KC

International Law & Arbitration Extradition International Criminal Law International Arbitration International Human Rights Law International Media Defence Public International Law Data Protection and Information Law Media, Defamation and Freedom of Expression

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.

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.