Torture: Moral, Legal & Political Dimensions—A Basic Bibliography
Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2010)
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.
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.
Bennoune, Karima. “Terror/Torture,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2008): 1-61. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1148284
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.
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.
Cassese, Antonio, ed. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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.
Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review of 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
Dayan, Colin. The Story of Cruel and Unusual. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (A Boston Review Book), 2007.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Kerrigan, Michael. The Instruments of Torture. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, revised ed., 2007
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.
Levi, William Ranney. “Interrogation’s Law,” Yale Law Journal (April 17, 2009), Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1389511
Levinson, Sanford, ed. Torture: A Collection. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 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.
Luban, David. “Liberalism, Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb,” 91 Virginia Law Review (2005): 1425-1461. Available:
http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/91/1425.pdf
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
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
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.
McMahan, Jeff. “Torture, Morality, and Law,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, Nos. 2 and 3 (2006): 241-248. Available: http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/mcmahan.html
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 Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2005): 179-192.
Miller, Seumas, “Torture,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/torture/.
Nowak, Manfred and Elizabeth McArthur. The United Nations Convention Against Torture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ohlin, Jens David. “The Torture Lawyers” (September 10, 2009). Harvard International Law Journal, Forthcoming. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1471398
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 Flights. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2006.
Parry, John T. “The Shape of Modern Torture: Extraordinary Rendition and Ghost Detainees,” Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 6, 2 (2005): 516-533.
Parry, John T. “Torture Warrants and the Rule of Law,” (February 18, 2009) Albany Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2008; Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-5. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1346088
Parry, John T. “Torture Nation, Torture Law,” The Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, 4
(April 2009): 1001-1056. Available: http://www.georgetownlawjournal.org/issues/pdf/97-4/Parry.PDF
Parry, John T. Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Paust, Jordan J. “The Absolute Prohibition of Torture and Necessary and Appropriate Sanctions,” Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol. 43 (2009). University of Houston Law Center, No. 2009-A-7. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=133159
Perry John. Torture: Religious Ethics and National Security. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.
Peters, Edward. Torture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996 ed.
Phillips, Joshua E.S. None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture. London: Verso, 2010.
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “’Ticking Bombs:’ Testimonies of Torture
Victims in Israel,” May 2007: http://www.stoptorture.org.il/files/140[1].pdf Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “No Defense: Soldier Violence Against
Palestinian Detainees,” Periodic Report: June 2008: http://www.stoptorture.org.il/files/No_Defense_Eng.pdf
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “’Family Matters:’ Using Family Members to Pressure Detainees Under GSS Interrogation,” April 2008: http://www.stoptorture.org.il/files/Fmily%20Matters%20full%20report%20eng.pdf
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. State of Israel and Others, HCJ 769/02 September 1999.
Rejali, Darius. Torture and Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Rhodes, Lorna. Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
Riggs, Kate and Richard Blakeley. “Prolonged Mental Harm: The Tortuous Reasoning Behind a New Standard for Psychological Abuse,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 20 (2007): 263-292.
Roth, Kenneth and Minky Worden, eds. Torture: A Human Rights Perspective. New York: The New Press, 2005.
Ruthven, Malise. Torture: The Grand Conspiracy. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978.
Sadat, Leila Nadya. “Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Other Nightmares from the War on Terror.” The George Washington Law Review, Vol. 75 (2007): 101-149. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008568
Sands, Philippe. Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Sarrat, Austin and Nasser Hussain, eds. When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Schulz, William F., ed. The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Scott, Craig. Ed. Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2001.
Sharrock, Justine. Tortured…. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Shue, Henry. “Torture,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1978): 124-143.
Shue, Henry. “Torture in Dreamland: Disposing of the Ticking Bomb,” Case Western Journal of International Law, Vol. 37 (2006): 231-239.
Strauss, Marcy. “Torture,” New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 48, Nos. 1-2 (2004): 201- 274.
Sussman, David. “What’s Wrong with Torture?” Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 33 (2005): 1-35.
Vischer, Robert K., “Tortured Ethics: Abu Ghraib and the Moral Lawyer” (October 5, 2004). St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=601203
Waldron, Jeremy. “Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment: The Words Themselves,” New York University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-36 (November 2008): 1-47.
Waldron, Jeremy. “Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House,” Columbia Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 6 (2005): 1681-1750.
Waldron, Jeremy. Torture, Terror, and Trado-Offs: Philosophy for the Whitehouse. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Wendel, W. Bradley. “Executive Branch Lawyers in a Time of Terror,” 2008 F.W. Wickwire Memorial Lecture. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1372744
Wendel, W. Bradley. “The Torture Memos and the Demands of Legality” (June 19, 2009). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-019. Available: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1422603
Werle, Gerhard. Principles of International Criminal Law. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2005.
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy. Understanding Torture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy and R.D. Emerick. The Ethics of Torture. New York: Continuum, 2009.
Wolfendale, Jessica. Torture and the Military Profession. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Yoo, John. War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
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