The leading human rights lawyer will grapple with state of the world in a new live show.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.As if speaking to one of the world’s leading legal minds isn’t intimidating enough, before our interview I learn that Geoffrey Robertson KC also goes by the title of Master of the Middle Temple.
Not surprisingly, he’s an old hand when it comes to receiving death threats. But despite their frequency, he says he has rarely feared for his life.“Especially not if they’re done by email. There was one that I was concerned about … my chambers reported it to the police and a day or so later I got the most grovelling apology from this fellow in America because he’d had a visit from the FBI! He said he was in a bad place and had lost control of his mind at the time.
And the crime with which he should be charged, Robertson asserts, is the crime of aggression, which sounds fairly tame but is, he says, “the worst of all crimes”. , which covers the history and the future of human rights. I don’t know how he finds the time – or the energy. Even at 77 he says there are no plans to retire.
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