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Torture
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CrimProf Blog
Bronsther on Torture and Respect
Jacob Bronsther has posted Torture and Respect (109 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 423 (2019)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:There are two well-worn arguments against a severe punishment like…
Human Rights at Home Blog
UN’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: North Carolina Citizens Call for Investigations and Reparations.
By Prof. Deborah Weissman The University of North Carolina School of Law’s Human Rights Policy Lab (HRPL) has sent a 35-page formal submission to 10 UN human rights experts who oversee…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Somali Torturer Liable under Torture Victims Protection Act
Despite the narrowing scope of the Alien Tort Statute, U.S. courts remain a place where, in some circumstances, torturers and human rights violators can be brought to justice. One such…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Domestic Violence as a Form of Torture: A Feminist Expansion of the Theory of the Prohibition of Torture
By Tracy Thomas
Natalie Davidson, The Feminist Expansion of the Prohibition of Torture: Towards a Post-liberal International Human Rights Law, Cornell Int'l L. J. (forthcoming)International human rights law (IHRL), discourse and activism have been…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Psychologists Extend Guantanamo Anti-Torture Policy
Last week, the American Psychological Association voted to stand firm against torture and to continue their opposition to military psychologists' work with Guantanamo detainees. Proponents of relaxing the ban argued…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Gina Haspel Did Not Act Alone: A Wider Lens on Accountability for Torture
by Deborah M. Weissman, UNC School of Law and guest editor, serves as legal adviser for the North Carolina Citizens Commission of Inquiry on Torture.serve as a legal adviser to…
PrawfsBlawg
Still more from the police misconduct archives
Main Monday, October 30, 2017Still more from the police misconduct archivesThis post continues my efforts to highlight underused archives that show the history of police misconduct in Chicago....The research that…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Torture Case Against Psychologists Settles
The New York Times reported today that the torture case against two psychologists who designed the CIA torture program settled. We last posted here, when the district court ruled against…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Lawsuit Against Psychologists Who Developed CIA Torture Program Continues Forward
By Lauren Carasik Two psychologists who helped design the CIA’s post 9/11 torture program will face trial, U.S. District Court Judge Justin L. Quackenbush ruled on Monday, in Spokane, Washington. The…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Torture Case Against Psychologists to Move Forward
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolJudge Quackenbush (E.D. Wash.) ruled earlier this week that the torture case against psychologists who helped design and implement the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques"…