In 1649, no lawyer in the country would accept the brief of prosecuting Charles I, except one — John Cook, the bravest of barristers, who was killed as punishment for sending the King to the scaffold.
From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介
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杰弗里•罗伯逊(Geoffrey Robertson QC) 英国王室法律顾问,国际著名人权律师,联合国塞拉利昂特别法庭法官。他曾在英国中央刑事法院的诸多著名案件中担任辩护律师,在英国、欧洲和马来西亚、斐济、澳大利亚等英联邦国家的最高法院为公民自由而辩护,赢了很多具标志性意义的官司。他参与了起诉皮诺切特和海斯廷斯•卡穆祖•班达(Hastings Kamuzu Banda)的案件,也参与对审判萨达姆•侯赛因的法官的培训。他的著作《反人类罪》(Crimes Against Humanity)启发了全球的正义运动,作品《正义的游戏》(The Justice Game )与被当作教科书的《媒体法》(Media Law)出版后均引起巨大反响。
杰弗里•罗伯逊(Geoffrey Robertson QC) 英国王室法律顾问,国际著名人权律师,联合国塞拉利昂特别法庭法官。他曾在英国中央刑事法院的诸多著名案件中担任辩护律师,在英国、欧洲和马来西亚、斐济、澳大利亚等英联邦国家的最高法院为公民自由而辩护,赢了很多具标志性意义的官司。他参与了起诉皮诺切特和海斯廷斯•卡穆祖•班达(Hastings Kamuzu Banda)的案件,也参与对审判萨达姆•侯赛因的法官的培训。他的著作《反人类罪》(Crimes Against Humanity)启发了全球的正义运动,作品《正义的游戏》(The Justice Game )与被当作教科书的《媒体法》(Media Law)出版后均引起巨大反响。
杰弗里•罗伯逊现与妻子凯西•乐蒂(Kathy Lette)及两个孩子居住在伦敦。他创办了道迪街律师事务所(Doughty Street Chambers)并任所长,同时也是中殿律师公会(the Middle Temple)的会长,伦敦巡回法官,伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院的访问教授。
除本书外,他的著作还有Reluctant Judas; Obscenity; People Against the Press; Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals; Media Law; Does Dracula Have Aids?; Freedom the Individual and the Law; The Justice Game; Crimes Against Humanity。
Sir Robert Berkeley accepted that in normal times the King could not take away property rights without Parliament's consent, but it would be 'utter ruin and subversion' if the King could not exercise such a power urgently: 'The law knows no such King-yoking policy. The law is of itself an old and trusty servant of the King's; it is his instrument...it is common and most true that Rex is Lex...The King cannot do wrong.' (查看原文)
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