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The torture debate in America /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and 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 and Detlev F. Vagts
- Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky and 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 and 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 and 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.