David Luban

Torture, Power, and Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781107051096
• ISBN-10: 1107051096
• Artikelnr.: 41563196

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.