TY - BOOK AU - Levinson,Sanford TI - Torture: a collection SN - 0195172892 AV - HV 8593 T662.2006 PY - 2006///, 2004 CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Torture KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Tortura - KW - Aspectos morales y éticos KW - Human rights KW - Derechos humanos KW - Political prisoners KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Presos políticos - KW - Condición jurídica, leyes, etc N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Foreword; The tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond?; Ariel Dorfman --; Contemplating torture : an introduction; Sanford Levinson --; Torture; Henry Shue --; Political action : the problem of dirty hands; Michael Walzer --; Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands"; Jean Bethke Elshtain --; The legal history of torture; John H. Langbein --; American interrogation : from torture to trickery; Jerome H. Skolnick --; The mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war; Mark Osiel --; Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad; John T. Parry --; Judgment concerning the legality of the general security service's interrogation methods; Supreme Court of Israel --; Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience; Miriam Gur-Arye --; The promise and limits of the international law of torture; Oona A. Hathaway --; The European convention on human rights and its prohibition on torture; Fionnuala Ní Aoiláin --; The prohibition on torture and the limits of the law; Oren Gross --; Tortured reasoning; Alan Dershowitz --; Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz; Elaine Scarry --; Torture, terrorism, and interrogation; Richard A. Posner --; Loose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture; Richard H. Weisberg ER -