Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and co-head of Doughty Street Chambers, with a practice in constitutional, criminal, media and international law. He is author of The Justice Game, The Tyrannicide Brief, Crimes Against Humanity: the Struggle for Global Justice, An Inconvenient Genocide and the IBA’s Thematic Paper on the independence of the judiciary. He served as a Recorder in London, and as an Appeal Judge and first President of the UN War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone and as a ‘distinguished jurist’ member of the UN’s Internal Justice Council. He is a Master of the Middle Temple and a Visiting Professor at the New College of Humanities. In 2011, he received the New York Bar Association Award for Distinction in International Law and Politics, and holds honorary degrees from Sydney, Brunel and Bucharest Universities. An independent, competent, incorruptible judiciary is a cornerstone of the rule of law. It is the judiciary that can provide recourse and redress for failures and abuses of the rule of law when they occur in a society or in the other branches of government. A judiciary that is political, biased, malleable, or corrupt can undercut or nullify a country’s commitment to the rule of law. The appointment process is a critical step to building a judiciary of qualified, impartial judges who will act with integrity to protect the public interest. Geoffrey Robertson will address the appointment process, ways in which it can be abused, and how countries can use it to strengthen, or to compromise, the rule of law. If you wish to attend the Rule of Law Symposium only, please register at https://www.int-bar.org/Conferences/Registration/Delegate/index.cfm?uid=0BF42BC4-5233-44DB-BC41-8516FFE34C3B.