The prohibition of torture in exceptional circumstances / Michelle Farrell.
2013
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Title
The prohibition of torture in exceptional circumstances / Michelle Farrell.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Call Number
KZ7170 .F37 2013
ISBN
9781107030794 (hbk.)
110703079X (hbk.)
110703079X (hbk.)
Description
xvi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)828776016
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--National University of Ireland Galway, 2011, under title: On torture.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-267) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Louis E. Wolcher
ix
Acknowledgements
xiii
Table of cases
xv
Introduction
1
A.
What is torture?
2
B.
Torture and counterterrorism
6
C.
Reading the debate on torture
12
1.
State of law
28
A.
The international legal framework for the prohibition of torture: from the Universal Declaration to the Convention against Torture
28
B.
The international prohibition of torture: scope of application
39
C.
The definition of torture: severity and purpose
68
D.
Conclusion
79
2.
The ticking bomb scenario: origins, usages and the contemporary discourse
82
A.
The ticking bomb in theory and in practice
83
B.
Debating torture
128
C.
Conclusion
145
3.
State of exception
147
A.
Emergencies and torture
147
B.
Carl Schmitt's sovereign exception
153
C.
The gods and the giants
161
D.
Agamben's state of exception
165
E.
Conclusion
172
4.
Legal, extra-legal or illegal? The academic debate on the use of torture in exceptional circumstances
175
A.
Qualified torture prohibition
176
B.
Pragmatic prohibition of torture
184
C.
Absolute torture prohibition
193
D.
Conclusion
200
5.
Torture prohibition and the torture debate: moral aspects
203
A.
The ethical debate
206
B.
Can the ticking bomb suspect be tortured? The contemporary debate
224
C.
Conclusion
242
Conclusion
244
Select bibliography
252
Index
268