Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation - Rilegato

Guiora, Amos N.

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ISBN 10: 0195340310 ISBN 13: 9780195340310

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2008

Riassunto

On September 11, 2001 terrorism instantly became the defining issue of our age. The resulting debates surrounding the inherent tension between national security interests and individual civil rights has focused national and international attention on how post-9/11 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and around the world have been interrogated. All concerned agree that, while interrogation practices represent a crucial meeting ground between human rights and counter-terrorism measures, the limits placed on interrogators are perhaps the most difficult to define for they determine how "far" a civil society is willing to go in fighting the exigencies that terror presents.

In The Constitutional Limits of Coercive Interrogation, Amos Guiora offers a theoretical analysis and a practical application of coercive interrogation, and in doing so, suggests developing and implementing a hybrid paradigm based on American criminal law, the Geneva Convention, and the Israeli model of trial as the most relevant judicial regime.

Guiora offers a unique contribution to the public debate by creatively utilizing a historical analysis of the system of "justice" for African-Americans in the Deep South of the past century to serve as a guide for the constitutional rights and protections which need to be granted or extended to an unprotected class. He then indicates which interrogation methods are within the boundaries of the law by both recommending protection of the detainees and providing interrogators with the tools required to protect America's vital interests.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Amos N. Guiora is a Professor of Law at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195340310
• ISBN 13: 9780195340310
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 186
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