Introduction : the rule of law finds its golem : judicial torture then and now / Karen J. Greenberg = 13
THE ISSUES
Torture : the road to Abu Ghraib and beyond : panel discussion with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers = 13
ESSAYS
section 1: Democracy, terror, and torture
1. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb / David Luban = 35
2. How to interrogate terrorists / Heather MacDonald = 84
3. Torture : thinking about the unthinkable / Andrew C. McCarthy = 98
4. The curious debate / Joshua Dratel = 111
5. Is defiance of law a proof of success? : magical thinking in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes = 118
6. Through a mirror, darkly: applying the Geneva Conventions to "a new kind of warfare" / Scott Horton = 136
7. Speaking law to power : lawyers and torture / Richard B. Bilder and Detlev F. Vagts = 151
8. Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky and Rachel Lavery = 162
section 2: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva Conventions, and international law
9. Unwise counsel: the war on terrorism and the criminal mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody / David W. Bowker = 183
10. Rethinking the Geneva Conventions / Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr. = 203
11. If Afghanistan has failed, then Afghanistan is dead : "failed states" and the inappropriate substitution of legal conclusion for political description / David D. Caron = 214
12. War not crime / William H. Taft IV = 223
section 3: On torture
13. Legal ethics and other perspectives / Jeffrey K. Shapiro = 229
14. Legal ethics : a debate / Stephen Gillers = 236
15. The lawyers know sin : complicity in torture / Christopher Kutz = 241
16. Renouncing torture / Michael C. Dorf = 247
17. Reconciling torture with democracy / Deborah Pearlstein = 253
18. Great nations and torture / M. Cherif Bassiouni = 256
Section 4: Looking forward
19. Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss = 261
20. Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman = 267
Relevant documents
1: Taft-Haynes March 22, 2002 memo re: President's decision about applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban / William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002 = 283
2: Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002 = 317
3: Levin-Comey December 30, 2004 memo re: legal standards applicable under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A / Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004 = 361
4. JAG memos re: recommendations of the Working Group to assess the legal, policy, and operational issues relating to interrogation of detainees held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the war on terrorism, February-March 2003 / Jack Rives, Major General USAF memo, February 5, 2003 ; Jack Rives memo, February 6, 2003 ; Michael Lohr memo for the GCAF, February 6, 2003 ; Kevin Sandkuhler memo, February 27, 2003 ; Thomas Romig memo for GCAF, March 3, 2003 ; Lohr comments on March 6 report, March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002) Labr Comments on March 6 Report = 377
Afterthought
To the American people: report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice / Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920 = 395
THE ISSUES
Torture : the road to Abu Ghraib and beyond : panel discussion with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers = 13
ESSAYS
section 1: Democracy, terror, and torture
1. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb / David Luban = 35
2. How to interrogate terrorists / Heather MacDonald = 84
3. Torture : thinking about the unthinkable / Andrew C. McCarthy = 98
4. The curious debate / Joshua Dratel = 111
5. Is defiance of law a proof of success? : magical thinking in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes = 118
6. Through a mirror, darkly: applying the Geneva Conventions to "a new kind of warfare" / Scott Horton = 136
7. Speaking law to power : lawyers and torture / Richard B. Bilder and Detlev F. Vagts = 151
8. Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky and Rachel Lavery = 162
section 2: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva Conventions, and international law
9. Unwise counsel: the war on terrorism and the criminal mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody / David W. Bowker = 183
10. Rethinking the Geneva Conventions / Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr. = 203
11. If Afghanistan has failed, then Afghanistan is dead : "failed states" and the inappropriate substitution of legal conclusion for political description / David D. Caron = 214
12. War not crime / William H. Taft IV = 223
section 3: On torture
13. Legal ethics and other perspectives / Jeffrey K. Shapiro = 229
14. Legal ethics : a debate / Stephen Gillers = 236
15. The lawyers know sin : complicity in torture / Christopher Kutz = 241
16. Renouncing torture / Michael C. Dorf = 247
17. Reconciling torture with democracy / Deborah Pearlstein = 253
18. Great nations and torture / M. Cherif Bassiouni = 256
Section 4: Looking forward
19. Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss = 261
20. Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman = 267
Relevant documents
1: Taft-Haynes March 22, 2002 memo re: President's decision about applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban / William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002 = 283
2: Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002 = 317
3: Levin-Comey December 30, 2004 memo re: legal standards applicable under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A / Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004 = 361
4. JAG memos re: recommendations of the Working Group to assess the legal, policy, and operational issues relating to interrogation of detainees held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the war on terrorism, February-March 2003 / Jack Rives, Major General USAF memo, February 5, 2003 ; Jack Rives memo, February 6, 2003 ; Michael Lohr memo for the GCAF, February 6, 2003 ; Kevin Sandkuhler memo, February 27, 2003 ; Thomas Romig memo for GCAF, March 3, 2003 ; Lohr comments on March 6 report, March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002) Labr Comments on March 6 Report = 377
Afterthought
To the American people: report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice / Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920 = 395