Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values

Sands, Philippe

ISBN 10: 0230603904 / ISBN 13: 9780230603905

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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272 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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• Titre: Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0230603904
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780230603905
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Brand New

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Synopsis

Torture Team The Rumsfeld Memo authorized controversial interrogation practices that migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. Sands investigates how the memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention, and he holds the Bush administration accountable. Full description

Biographie de l'auteur

Philippe Sands QC has been Professor of Law at University College London since 2002 and has also taught at Boston College Law School, Cambridge University and New York University Law School. He is the author of the acclaimed Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules as well as several other books on international law. He participated in the negotiation of the 1992 Climate Change Convention and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He is also a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers and has been involved in leading cases before English and international courts including those concerning Senator Augusto Pinochet and the Guantanamo and Belmarsh detainees. He lives in London with his wife and three children.