| Description |
xviii, 414 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The rule of law finds its golem : judicial torture then and now / Karen J. Greenberg -- Torture : the road to Abu Ghraib and beyond : panel discussion / Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, Stephen Gillers -- section 1: Democracy, terror, and torture. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb / David Luban -- How to interrogate terrorists / Heather MacDonald -- Torture : thinking about the unthinkable / Andrew C. McCarthy -- The curious debate / Joshua Dratel -- Is defiance of law a proof of success? : magical thinking in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes -- Through a mirror, darkly: applying the Geneva Conventions to "a new kind of warfare" / Scott Horton -- Speaking law to power : lawyers and torture / Richard B. Bilder, Detlev F. Vagts -- Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky, Rachel Lavery -- section 2: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva Conventions, and international law. Unwise counsel: the war on terrorism and the criminal mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody / David W. Bowker -- Rethinking the Geneva Conventions / Lee A. Casey, David B. Rivkin, Jr. -- If Afghanistan has failed, then Afghanistan is dead : "failed states" and the inappropriate substitution of legal conclusion for political description / David D. Caron -- War not crime / William H. Taft IV -- section 3: On torture. Legal ethics and other perspectives / Jeffrey K. Shapiro -- Legal ethics : a debate / Stephen Gillers -- The lawyers know sin : complicity in torture / Christopher Kutz -- Renouncing torture / Michael C. Dorf -- Reconciling torture with democracy / Deborah Pearlstein -- Great nations and torture / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Section 4: Looking forward. Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner, Peter Weiss -- Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman -- Relevant documents. 1: Taft-Haynes March 22, 2002 memo re: President's decision about applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban / William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002 -- 2: Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002 -- 3: Levin-Comey December 30, 2004 memo re: legal standards applicable under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A / Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004 -- JAG memos re: recommendations of the Working Group to assess the legal, policy, and operational issues relating to interrogation of detainees held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the war on terrorism, February-March 2003 / Jack Rives, Major General USAF memo, February 5, 2003 ; Jack Rives memo, February 6, 2003 ; Michael Lohr memo for the GCAF, February 6, 2003 ; Kevin Sandkuhler memo, February 27, 2003 ; Thomas Romig memo for GCAF, March 3, 2003 ; Lohr comments on March 6 report, March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002) -- Afterthought: To the American people: report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice / Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920. |
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Human rights -- Government policy -- United States.
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Torture.
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Political prisoners -- Abuse of.
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Military interrogation.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
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| Added Author |
Greenberg, Karen J.
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| ISBN |
0521674611 (pbk.) |
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9780521674614 (pbk.) |
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0521857929 (hardback) |
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9780521857925 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 28538497X |
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YDXCP 2220938 |
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YDXCP 2220939 |
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AU@ 000040209888 |
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