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Title: Justice For All & How to Achieve It: Citizens, Lawyers & the Law in the Age of Human Rights
Author: NICE GEOFFREY
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/12/2017
Imprint: SCALA
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
What is a crime against humanity and when should it be investigated? What does ‘human rights’
mean? Is law the new religion and are its high priests, the lawyers, really all bad? What is the
role of the law in the regulation of sexual behaviour? Are there limits to what we can reasonably
expect from international war crimes tribunals? These and many other crucial questions are
explored with wit, panache and consummate even-handedness by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, in the
series of lectures he delivered as Gresham Professor of Law from 2012 to 2016. Drawing on
events from every continent and every period in history, from ancient Babylon to Britain on the
brink of Brexit; and referencing icons from Cicero to Socrates, Bertrand Russell to Jean-Paul
Sartre, and Joan Baez to Muhammad Ali, Sir Geoffrey applies his own wealth of experience to
moral problems which are as pressing in today’s anxious world as they ever have been.
AUTHOR:
Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC has practised as a barrister since 1971. He led the prosecution of Slobodan
Milosevic and much of his work since has been connected to the International Criminal Court or
pro bono for victims groups. He is also a lecturer and commentator on war crimes issues for the
international press.
ISBN: 9781785511233