Torture : a collection /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Levinson, Sanford, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : 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 Aoiláin
  • 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.