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Torture a collection
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- ISBN: 9780198038573 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0198038577 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0195172892 (Cloth)
- ISBN: 9780195172898
- ISBN: 0195172892
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1 online resource (vi, 319 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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