Torture, Power, and Law

Informationen zum Autor David Luban is University Professor in Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University. His many publications include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study (1988), Legal Modernism (1994), Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (2007), and well-known essays on just war theory and international criminal law. Klappentext David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective. Zusammenfassung Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban is one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. This volume brings together his most important writings on torture and executive power and includes two new essays which analyze what torture is and discuss the Obama administration's failure to hold torturers accountable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Downgrading Rights and Expanding Power During Post-9/11 Panic: 1. The war on terrorism and the end of human rights; 2. Eight fallacies about liberty and security; Part II. The Ticking Bomb as Moral Fantasy and Moral Fraud: 3. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb; 4. Unthinking the ticking bomb; Part III. The Evils of Torture: 5. A communicative conception of torture; 6. Human dignity, humiliation, and torture; 7. Mental torture: a critique of erasures in US law (with Henry Shue); Part IV. Complicity in Torture: 8. The torture lawyers of Washington; 9. Tales of terror: lessons for lawyers from the war on terrorism; 10. An affair to remember.

Product details

• Authors: David Luban, David (Georgetown University Luban, Luban David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107051096
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05109-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / General, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law