The torture debate in America / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Karen J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Government policy--United States.

Human rights.

Human rights--Government policy.

United States.

Torture.

Political prisoners--Abuse of.

Political prisoners.

Military interrogation.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Penn Provenance:

Greenberg, Karen J. (autograph) (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 414 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume captures the arguments on torture that have been put forth by legislators, human rights activists and others, raising key moral, legal, and historical questions that have led to current considerations on the use of torture.

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 with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers

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

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

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

Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss

Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman

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

Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521857929

0521674611

OCLC:

61295804