by NRB | 13 Jun 2024 | Non-fiction |
Geoffrey Robertson argues that the United Nations needs to establish a new court in order to bring Vladimir Putin to justice. Geoffrey Robertson is an internationally renowned lawyer specialising in human rights, and is a champion of the role of the courts in...
by NRB | 22 Sep 2022 | Non-fiction |
Elaine Pearson gives an insider’s account of fighting for human rights around the world. The concept of ‘human rights’ is relatively new, becoming embodied in international law in response to atrocities perpetuated during World War II. The preamble to the...
by NRB | 11 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction |
East West Street fuses biography, family memoir and journalism, culminating in an account of the Nuremberg trials told with the pace of a legal thriller. The idea that a government shouldn’t have impunity to murder its own citizens because it finds them undesirable or...
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