Geoffrey Robertson AO KC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, Europe’s largest human rights practice. He was the first President of the UN’s special war crimes court for Sierra Leone and has acted in many leading cases in the European Court of Human Rights and the UNHRC, most recently for Lula. He is the author of 20 books, including ‘Crimes against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice’ (Penguin 5th edition 2024) and he is a master of the Middle Temple and a visiting profession in human rights law at Goldsmiths college, London University.