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"Torture: A Collection," brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban on torture and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances.  The noted contributors include Ariel Dorfman, Elaine Scarry, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Richard Posner, Michael Walzer, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and other lawyers from both theUnited States and abroad.

Buy "Torture: A Collection," edited by Sanford Levinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); see especially the essays by Dershowitz, Scarry, Walzer and Shue and the Forward by Ariel Dorfman.  

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