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Torture, Power, and Law

2014-09-04 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Torture, Power, and Law by : David Luban

Download or read book Torture, Power, and Law written by David Luban. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban reflects on this contentious topic in a powerful sequence of essays including two new and previously unpublished pieces. He analyzes the trade-offs between security and human rights, as well as the connection between torture, humiliation, and human dignity, the fallacy of using ticking bomb scenarios in debates about torture, and the ethics of government lawyers. The book develops an illuminating and novel conception of torture as the use of pain and suffering to communicate absolute dominance over the victim. Factually stimulating and legally informed, this volume provides the clearest analysis to date of the torture debate. It brings the story up to date by discussing the Obama administration's failure to hold torturers accountable.

Torture, Power, and Law

2014-09-04 Law
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Release : 2014-09-04
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Book Synopsis Torture, Power, and Law by : David Luban

Download or read book Torture, Power, and Law written by David Luban. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective.

Transnational Torture

2011-08-29 Law
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Release : 2011-08-29
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Transnational Torture by : Jinee Lokaneeta

Download or read book Transnational Torture written by Jinee Lokaneeta. This book was released on 2011-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transnational Torture by Jinee Lokaneeta reviewed with Prachi Patankar" on the blog Kafila. Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States—two common-law based constitutional democracies—to theorize the relationship between law, violence, and state power in liberal democracies. Analyzing about one hundred landmark Supreme Court cases on torture in India and the United States, memos and popular imagery of torture, Jinee Lokaneeta compellingly demonstrates that even before recent debates on the use of torture in the war on terror, the laws of interrogation were much more ambivalent about the infliction of excess pain and suffering than most political and legal theorists have acknowledged. Rather than viewing the recent policies on interrogation as anomalous or exceptional, Lokaneeta effectively argues that efforts to accommodate excess violence—a constantly negotiated process—are long standing features of routine interrogations in both the United States and India, concluding that the infliction of excess violence is more central to democratic governance than is acknowledged in western jurisprudence.

Transnational Torture

2014-06-22 Law
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Release : 2014-06-22
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Transnational Torture by : Jinee Lokaneeta

Download or read book Transnational Torture written by Jinee Lokaneeta. This book was released on 2014-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transnational Torture by Jinee Lokaneeta reviewed with Prachi Patankar" on the blog Kafila. Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States—two common-law based constitutional democracies—to theorize the relationship between law, violence, and state power in liberal democracies. Analyzing about one hundred landmark Supreme Court cases on torture in India and the United States, memos and popular imagery of torture, Jinee Lokaneeta compellingly demonstrates that even before recent debates on the use of torture in the war on terror, the laws of interrogation were much more ambivalent about the infliction of excess pain and suffering than most political and legal theorists have acknowledged. Rather than viewing the recent policies on interrogation as anomalous or exceptional, Lokaneeta effectively argues that efforts to accommodate excess violence—a constantly negotiated process—are long standing features of routine interrogations in both the United States and India, concluding that the infliction of excess violence is more central to democratic governance than is acknowledged in western jurisprudence.

Getting Away with Torture

2011 History
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Release : 2011
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Getting Away with Torture by : Christopher H. Pyle

Download or read book Getting Away with Torture written by Christopher H. Pyle. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.

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