Torture, power, and law
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 unpubli...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39759520*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I: Downgrading rights and expanding power during post-9/11 panic
- The war on terrorism and the end of human rights
- Eight fallacies about liberty and security
- pt. II: The ticking bomb as moral fantasy and moral fraud
- Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb
- Unthinking the ticking bomb
- pt. III: The evils of torture
- A communicative conception of torture
- Human dignity, humiliation, and torture
- Mental torture : a critique of erasures in US law (with Henry Shue)
- pt. IV: Complicity in torture
- The torture lawyers of Washington
- Appendix: Testimony of David Luban to the Senate Judiciary Committee, what went wrong: torture and the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration
- Tales of terror : lessons for lawyers from the war on terrorism
- An affair to remember
- Main index
- Index of legal authorities.
