Torture : a collection / edited by Sanford Levinson ; [Alan Dershowitz ... [and others], with a foreword by Ariel Dorfman.]
2006
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Title
Torture : a collection / edited by Sanford Levinson ; [Alan Dershowitz ... [and others], with a foreword by Ariel Dorfman.]
Edition
Rev. ed.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Copyright
©2004
Description
vi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
The Tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond? / Ariel Dorfman
Contemplating torture : an introduction / Sanford Levinson
Torture / Henry Shue
Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer
Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands" / Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Legal history of torture / John H. Langbein
American interrogation : from torture to trickery / Jerome H. Skolnick
The Mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war / Mark Osiel
Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad / John T. Parry
Judgment concerning the legality of the General Security Service's interrogation methods / Supreme Court of Israel
Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience / Miriam Gur-Arye
The Promise and limits of the international law of torture / Oona A. Hathaway / The European Convention on Human Rights and its prohibition on torture / Fionnuala Ní Aioláin
The Prohibition on torture and the limits of the law / Oren Gross
Tortured reasoning / Alan Dershowitz
Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz / Elaine Scarry
Torture, terrorism and interrogation / Richard A. Posner
Loose professionalism, or Why lawyers take the lead on torture / Richard H. Weisberg
The Truth about torture / Charles Krauthammer
The Abolition of torture / Andrew Sullivan.
Contemplating torture : an introduction / Sanford Levinson
Torture / Henry Shue
Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer
Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands" / Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Legal history of torture / John H. Langbein
American interrogation : from torture to trickery / Jerome H. Skolnick
The Mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war / Mark Osiel
Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad / John T. Parry
Judgment concerning the legality of the General Security Service's interrogation methods / Supreme Court of Israel
Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience / Miriam Gur-Arye
The Promise and limits of the international law of torture / Oona A. Hathaway / The European Convention on Human Rights and its prohibition on torture / Fionnuala Ní Aioláin
The Prohibition on torture and the limits of the law / Oren Gross
Tortured reasoning / Alan Dershowitz
Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz / Elaine Scarry
Torture, terrorism and interrogation / Richard A. Posner
Loose professionalism, or Why lawyers take the lead on torture / Richard H. Weisberg
The Truth about torture / Charles Krauthammer
The Abolition of torture / Andrew Sullivan.
Note
"With two new essays by Charles Krauthammer, Charles Sullivan."--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA K5304 .T672 2006
Call Number
K5304 .T672 2006
Language
English
ISBN
9780195172898
9780195306460 paperback
9780195306460 paperback
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