Torture: Moral, Legal & Political Dimensions—A Basic Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell (2020)

Bibliographies that contain titles relevant to this compilation: (i) Punishment and Prison;

(ii) Slavery; and (iii) the American War in Vietnam.

Aceves, William J. The Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of Filartiga v. Pena-

Irala. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007.

Allhoff, Fritz. “A Defense of Torture: Separation of Cases, Moral Methodology, and

Ticking Time-Bombs,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 19, no. 2 (2005):

243-264.

Anderson, Scott A. and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. Confronting Torture: Essays on the

Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today. Chicago, IL: University of

Chicago Press, 2018.

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Baer, Andrew S. Beyond the Usual Beating: The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social

Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago

Press, 2020.

Bagaric, Mirko and Julie Clarke. Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Bassiouni M. Cherif. “The Institutionalization of Torture under the Bush

Administration,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vo. 37, Nos. 2-3

(2006): 389-425.

Bassiouni M. Cherif. The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration: Is

Anyone Responsible? Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010.

Bennoune, Karima. “Terror/Torture,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 26, No. 1

(2008): 1-61. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1148284

Bernstein, J.M. Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury. Chicago, IL: University of

Chicago Press, 2015.

Bloche, M. Gregg. “Toward a Science of Torture?” (May 15, 2017) Texas Law Review,

Forthcoming. Available: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2951951

Brecher, Bob. Torture and the Ticking Bomb. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. [See too C.A.J.

Coady’s review for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.02.09. Available:

http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15385]

Bruff, Harold H. Bad Advice: Bush’s Lawyers in the War on Terror. Lawrence, KS:

University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition. Cambridge, MA:

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.

B’Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)

and HaMoked—Center for the Defence of the Individual, “Absolute Prohibition:

The Torture and Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees,” (May 2007). Available:

http://www.btselem.org/Download/200705_Utterly_Forbidden_eng.pdf

Bufacchi, Vittorio and Jean Maria Arrigo. “Torture, Terrorism and the State: a Refutation

of the Ticking-Bomb Argument,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 3

(2006): 355-373.

Card, Claudia. Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide. Cambridge, UK:

Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Cassese, Antonio, ed. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Clucas, Bev, Gerry Johnstone, and Tony Ward, eds. Torture: Moral Absolutes and

Ambiguities. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2009.

Cohan, John Alan. “Torture and the Necessity Doctrine,” 41 Valparaiso University Law

Review (2007): 1587-1632.

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Cohn, Marjorie, ed. The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse.

New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Cole, David, ed. The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable. New York: The New

Press, 2009.

Conroy, John. Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture. Berkeley, CA:

University of California Press, 2001.

Crocker, Thomas P. “Overcoming Necessity: Torture and the State of Constitutional

Culture,” SMU Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2008): 221-279. Available:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116680

Crocker, Thomas P. “Torture, with Apologies,” Texas Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 3 (2008):

569-613. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1102495

Cryer, Robert, Håkan Friman, Darryl Robinson and Elizabeth Wilmshurst. An

Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure. Cambridge, UK:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Curzer, Howard. “Admirable Immorality, Dirty Hands, Ticking Bombs, and Torturing

Innocents,” 44 Southern Journal of Philosophy (2006): 31-56.

Dale, Elizabeth. Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971. DeKalb, IL:

Northern Illinois University Press, 2016.

Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York:

New York Review Books, 2004.

Danner, Mark. “U.S. Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,” The New York Review of Books,

Vol. LVI, No. 6 (April 9, 2009): 69-77. Available:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22530

Danner, Mark. “The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means,” The New York Review of

Books, Vol. LVI, No. 7 (April 30, 2009): 48-56. Available:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614

Danner, Mark and George R. Fay. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on

Terror, Vol. 2. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.

Davis, Michael. “The Moral Justification of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or

Degrading Treatment,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 19 (2) (2005):

161–78.

Dayan, Colin. The Story of Cruel and Unusual. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (A Boston

Review Book), 2007.

Einolf, Christopher J. America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Fallon, Mark. Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US

Government Conspired to Torture. New York: Regan Arts, 2017.

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Farrell, Michelle. The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances. Cambridge, UK:

Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Feitlowitz, Marguerite. A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New

York: Oxford University Press, revised ed., 2011.

Ferzan, Kimberly Kessler. “Torture, Necessity, and the Union of Law & Philosophy,”

Rutgers Law Journal 36, No. 1 (2004). Available:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116696

Fleck, Dieter, ed. The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2nd ed., 2008.

Fried, Charles and Gregory Fried. Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential

Power in the Age of Terror. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.

Gaeta, Paola. “May Necessity Be Available as a Defence for Torture in the Interrogation

of Suspected Terrorists?” Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 2, No. 3

(2004): 785-794.

Gill, Lesley. The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the

Americas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

Ginbar, Yuval. Why Not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the ‘Ticking

Bomb’ Justification of Torture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Goldsmith, Jack. The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

Gordon, Rebecca. Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

Greenberg, Karen, ed. The Torture Debate in America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press, 2006.

Greenberg, Karen and Joshua L. Dratel, eds. The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Gross, Michael L. Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in

an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Gross, Oren. “Are Torture Warrants Warranted? Pragmatic Absolutism and Official

Disobedience,” 88 Minnesota Law Review (2004): 1481-1555.

Guiora, Amos N. and Erin M. Page. “The Unholy Trinity: Intelligence, Interrogation and

Torture,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, Nos. 2-3 (2006):

427-447.

Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005: 49-75 and 185-207.

Hajjar, Lisa. Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights. New York: Routledge,

2013.

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Haque, Adil Ahmad. “Torture, Terror, and the Inversion of Moral Principle,” New

Criminal Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2007): 613-657.

Harbury, Jennifer K. Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of

U.S. Involvement in Torture. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2005.

Hilde, Thomas C., ed. On Torture. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Horton, Scott. “Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration,” Harper’s

Magazine, December 2008. Available:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/0082303

Hunsinger, George, ed. Torture is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims and People of

Conscience Speak Out. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ., 2008.

International Review of the Red Cross, “Torture,” Vo. 89, No. 867 (September 2007): 505-

774. Available: https://www.icrc.org/en/international-

review/torture?language=en

Ip, John. “Two Narratives of Torture” (April 10, 2009) Northwestern University Journal of

International Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 1, p. 35, 2009. Available at SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1292585

Kälin, Walter. “The struggle against torture,” International Review of the Red Cross, No.

324, September 30, 1998. Available:

https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/other/57jpg5.htm

Kerrigan, Michael. The Instruments of Torture. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, revised ed.,

2007.

Kershnar, Stephen. For Torture: A Rights-Based Defense. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,

2012.

Kiriakou, John. “Torture: On the Wrong Side of History,” Los Angeles Review of Books,

June 14, 2017. Available: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/torture-on-the-

wrong-side-of-history/ [review of James E. Mitchell’s (with Bill Harlow) 2016

book, Enhanced Interrogation]

Kramer, Matthew H. Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Inquiry. Oxford, UK:

Oxford University Press, 2014.

Kreimer, Seth. “Too Close to the Rack and the Screw: Constitutional Constraints on

Torture in the War on Terror,” 6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional

Law (2003): 278-325.

Kutz, Christopher. Torture, Necessity and Existential Politics,” 95 California Law Review

(2007): 235-276.

Kuzmarov, Jeremy. Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the

American Century. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.

Langbein, John. Torture and the Law of Proof. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,

1977.

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Lazreg, Marnia. Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2008.

Lee, Patrick. “Interrogational Torture,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 51 (2006):

131-147.

Lee, Steven, ed. Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War

Theory. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.

Levi, William Ranney. “Interrogation’s Law,” Yale Law Journal (April 17, 2009),

Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1389511

Levinson, Sanford. “’Precommitment’ and ‘Postcommitment:’ The Ban on Torture in the

Wake of September 11,” 81 Texas Law Review (2003): 2013-2053.

Levinson, Sanford. “In Quest of a ‘Common Conscience:’ Reflections on the Current

Debate on Torture,” 1 Journal of National Security and Policy (2005): 231-252.

Levinson, Sanford, ed. Torture: A Collection. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Levit, Kenneth. “The CIA and the Torture Controversy: Interrogation Authorities and

Practices in the War on Terror,” 1 Journal of National Security and Policy (2005):

341-356.

Lewis, Anthony. The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge

University Press, 2005.

Linnartz, Isaac A. “The Siren Song of Interrogational Torture: Evaluating the U.S.

Implementation of the U.N. Convention against Torture,” Duke Law Journal, Vol.

57, 5 (2008): 1465-1516.

Lokaneeta, Jinee. Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States

and India. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Luban, David. “Liberalism, Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb,” 91 Virginia Law Review

(2005): 1425-1461. Available:

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Luban, David. “The torture lawyers of Washington,” in Legal Ethics and Human Dignity.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 162-225.

Luban, David. “Unthinking the Ticking Bomb,” Georgetown Public Law Research

Paper, No. 1154202. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1154202

Luban, David. Torture, Power, and Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,

2014.

Mannix, Daniel P. The History of Torture. Gloucestershire, England: The History Press,

2003.

Marks, Jonathan H. “Doctors as Pawns? Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay,”

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 37 (2007): 711-731. Available:

http://ssrn.com/abstract-983815

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Matthews, Richard. The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must be Prohibited. Montreal:

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

May, Larry. Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press, 2005.

May, Larry. War Crimes and Just War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on

American Ideals. New York: Doubleday, 2008.

Mayerfield, Jamie. “Playing by Our Own Rules: How U.S. Marginalization of Human

Rights Law Led to Torture,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 20 (2007): 89-140.

Mayerfield, Jamie. “In Defense of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture,” Public Affairs

Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2 (April 2008): 109-128.

McCoy, Alfred W. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on

Terror. New York: Owl Books/Henry Holt, 2006.

McCoy, Alfred W. Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

McKay, Susan. “The torture centre: Northern Ireland’s ‘hooded men,’” The Irish Times,

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McMahan, Jeff. “Torture, Morality, and Law,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International

Law, Vol. 37, Nos. 2 and 3 (2006): 241-248. Available:

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McMahan, Jeff. “Torture in Principle and in Practice,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 22 (2)

(2008): 111–128.

Meisels, Tamar. “Torture and the Problem of Dirty Hands,” The Canadian Journal of Law

and Jurisprudence, Vol. 21, 1 (2008): 149-173.

Miles, Steven H. Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror. New

York: Random House, second ed., 2009.

Miller, Seumas. “Is Torture Ever Morally Justified?” International Journal of Applied

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Miller, Seumas, “Torture,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition),

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Moher, Andrew. “The Lesser of Two Evils? The Argument for Judicially Sanctioned

Torture in a Post-9/11 World,” 26 Thomas Jefferson Law Review (2004): 469-489.

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Ohlin, Jens David. “The Torture Lawyers” (September 10, 2009). Harvard International

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O’Mara, Shane. Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2015

Osiel, Mark. The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture, and the Law of War. Cambridge, UK:

Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Otterman, Michael. American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.

Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2007.

Paglen, Trevor and A.C. Thompson. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition

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Parry, John T. “The Shape of Modern Torture: Extraordinary Rendition and Ghost

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Parry, John T. “Torture Warrants and the Rule of Law,” (February 18, 2009) Albany Law

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Parry, John T. “Torture Nation, Torture Law,” The Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, 4

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University of Michigan Press, 2010.

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on Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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