Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances

Informationen zum Autor Michelle Farrell is a lecturer in law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Klappentext This book reframes the historical, legal and moral discourse on the question of whether torture can be justified in exceptional circumstances. Zusammenfassung Rather than engaging the question of whether torture can be justified in exceptional circumstances! Michelle Farrell asks how and why torture has become such a central subject of debate and critiques existing legal and moral approaches to torture with the aim of turning the debate on its head. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. State of law; 2. The ticking bomb scenario: origins, usages and the contemporary discourse; 3. State of exception; 4. Legal, extralegal or illegal? The academic debate on the use of torture in exceptional circumstances; 5. The torture prohibition and the torture debate: moral aspects.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Michelle Farrell, Michelle Farrell, Michelle (University of Liverpool) Farrell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107030794
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03079-4
• No. of pages: 291
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, International human rights law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law