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Torture
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Human Rights at Home Blog
Legal Ethics, Human Rights and the Torture Memos
By mdavis
Around the world, human rights lawyers and activists know about the “Torture Memos” – a series of memos prepared from 2001 to 2007 by lawyers for the US Office of…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Important New Research on Torture and Human Rights
Two important new publications address aspects of torture: its effectiveness as an investigative technique, and the impact of treaties barring torture. First, Professors Cosette Creamer and Beth Simmons have posted…
Hackensack New Jersey Criminal Law Blog
Three Suspects Accused of Kidnapping, Torturing Mahwah NJ Man in Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Police recently busted three men accused of kidnapping and torturing a Mahwah New Jersey man. According to officials, the suspects abducted the 22-year-old victim and then proceeded to brutally beat…
Human Rights at Home Blog
A Long View of the Torture Memos
By mdavis
I had some misgivings as my trip to Trondheim, Norway approached. I was scheduled to speak to students and faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology about the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Denies Bivens Remedy for Overseas Violations in Criminal Terrorism Investigation
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit on Friday ruled in a fractured opinion that a U.S. citizen secretly detained, transferred involuntarily between countries, and threatened with torture…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Human Rights Violation Lawsuit Filed Against US Torture Psychologists
By margaretdrew
Physicians for Human Rights announced its support for a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against two psychologists accused of designing torture mechanisms. The psychologists, Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, are…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Countering the “Politics of Forgetting” by Documenting Grassroots Efforts for Accountability for Torture
By: Deborah M. WeissmanReef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law It is now common knowledge that following the events of September…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Inter-American Commission: US Can and Must Do More to Close Guantánamo
by Deborah Popowski, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School, guest contributorOn August 5th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report denouncing the United States government for unlawfully…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
No Remedy for Torture Victims, Court Reaffirms
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolJudge Ellen Segal Huvelle (D.D.C.) yesterday reaffirmed that torture victims lack a remedy in the federal courts. Judge Huvelle applied circuit precedent and granted…
International Law Prof Blog
IACHR Takes Cases Against Brazil and Venezuela to Inter-American Court
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR or Commission) has filed two new cases with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - one against Brazil and one against Venezuela. The…