Torture used to be incompatible with American values. Our Bill of Rights forbids cruel and
unusual punishment, and that has come to include all forms of corporal punishment except …

In the wake of 9/11, the United States government has relied on a number of aggressive
security measures to protect the nation. From domestic wiretapping without warrants to the …

My starting point is the dishonor that descended upon the United States early in 2004 as a
result of revelations about what was happening under American control in Abu Ghraib …

The Second Amendment, the Supreme Court has held, secures an individual right to keep
and bear arms for self-defense.'Whether or not the federal right will be applied to the states …

This book analyses the primary relevant rules of international law applicable to extra-
territorial use of force by states against non-state actors. Force in this context takes many …

Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and
legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have …

In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates
the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling …

As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that constitute
the material in The Torture Papers the question of the rationale behind the Bush …

(a) A textbook, 1 magazine, Web site, or seminar describes how people can make bombs
(conventional 2 or nuclear3), make guns, 4 make drugs, 5 commit contract murder, 6 engage …

" Nothing has changed. The body still trembles as it trembled before Rome was founded and
after, in the twentieth century before and after Christ. Tortures are just what they were, only …