American Prisoners Facing Guantanamo Tortures
March 5, 2011
Missed this one from a few weeks back. Lance Tapley, a contributor to The United States & Torture, writes a long piece at AlterNet about the frequency with which American… READ MORE
Category: Law
Egypt Tortured for the U.S.
February 11, 2011
That’s the argument Margaret Cohn makes in her post at the SALT Blog: Torture is commonplace in Egypt, according to Korayem. Indeed, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s intelligence chief whom Mubarak just… READ MORE
Degradation in Tucson
January 21, 2011
Melanie Zoltan reviews Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech by Kevin W. Saunders in the context of the Tucson shootings: What is the role of… READ MORE
Superheroes and the Law
December 21, 2010
Here’s a fun site to spend a little time reading during your time off for the holidays. Law and the Multiverse discusses hypothetical situations in which superheroes and supervillains exist… READ MORE
Law’s Detour to the Huffington Post
November 8, 2010
Anis Shivani, a big fan of NYU Press, includes Peter Marguile’s Law’s Detour on his list of The 17 Best Social and Political Awareness Books of 2010. In another well-known… READ MORE
Reviewing Justice for Politicians
November 3, 2010
Concurring Opinions offers its thoughts on When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration“>When Governments Break the Law, edited by Austin Sarat… READ MORE
NYTimes: The Guantanamo Lawyers Show America’s Moral Fiber
October 7, 2010
Richard Bernstein, who writes the “Letters from America” column in the New York Times, has a fantastic review of The Guantanamo Lawyers, ed. By Jonathan Hafetz and Mark Denbeaux, as… READ MORE
New York Review of Books Reads The Guantanamo Lawyers
September 24, 2010
David Cole’s article “What to Do About Guantánamo?“, appearing now in the New York Review of Books, draws much of its insight from our groundbreaking book, The Guantanamo Lawyers, edited… READ MORE