Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs - Philosophy for the White House

Zusatztext This volume enriches the immense body of writing on this subject that has accrued since the September 11th attacks...The author is particularly well qualified to discuss this subject matter having dedicated most of his career to the study of law...The author is an elegant and analytical philosopher of law and this latest work is interesting not as much for the arguments discussed as for the points expressed in support of them, which are often articulated with very useful linguistic distinctions and subtle conceptual analyses. Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Waldron is Professor of Law at the New York University Law School. He is one of the leading figures working in legal and political philosophy and his major works include The Right to Private Property (OUP, 1988), Law and Disagreement (OUP, 1999), and The Dignity of Legislation (1999). He took up the Chichele Professorship in Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford in 2010. Klappentext This volume collects Jeremy Waldron's challenging and influential work on the moral, political and legal issues surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. The volume will be essential reading for all those engaged with contemporary politics and security law, and the continuing struggle for an ethical response to terrorism. Zusammenfassung This volume collects Jeremy Waldron's challenging and influential work on the moral, political and legal issues surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. The volume will be essential reading for all those engaged with contemporary politics and security law, and the continuing struggle for an ethical response to terrorism.

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• Authors: Jeremy Waldron, Jeremy (Jeremy Waldron Is Professor of La Waldron, Jeremy (Jeremy Waldron is Professor of Law at the New York University Law School Waldron, Waldron Jeremy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780199652020
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965202-0
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Terrorism, armed struggle, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law