Torture : a collection /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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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.