Torture after Nuremburg: US Law and Practice

Authors

Elizabeth Rapaport, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Format

Book Chapter

Book Title

Rights, Citizenship and Torture: Perspectives on Evil, Law and the State

Editor

John T Parry & Welat Zeydanlioglu

First Page

1

Last Page

24

Files

Description

In this essay I will argue that the signature methods of interrogation used by CIA and military interrogators in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) -- torture lite' techniques such as hypothermia and stress positions -- may constitute torture, but that the question of their legality under U.S, and international law is not as straightforward as some critics of the Bush Administration maintained. I will take up only one thread in the complex discussion of GWOT interrogation practices and law, that of the boundary between torture and lesser cruelty.

ISBN

9781904710974

Publication Date

11-1-2009

City

Oxford, UK

Publisher

Inter-Disciplinary Press

Disciplines

Law

Recommended Citation

Rapaport, Elizabeth. "Torture after Nuremburg: US Law and Practice." Rights, Citizenship and Torture: Perspectives on Evil, Law and the State (2009): 1-24. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/27