Originally published: 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword : The abolition of torture / Andrew Sullivan. 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 -- The truth about torture / Charles Krauthhammer -- The abolition of torture / Andrew Sullivan.
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