Torturing Executive Power

MD Ramsey - Geo. LJ, 2004 - HeinOnline
… presidential power to combat terrorism, and in particular of the President's power to imprison
and question enemy fighters.'Though some of the debate over these so-called" torture

Finding Effective Constraints on Executive Power: Interrogation, Detention, and Torture

DN Pearlstein - Ind. LJ, 2006 - HeinOnline
… of torture for the prospects of effectively constraining executive national security power
Indeed, this Article suggests that effective constraints on executive power going forward are more …

Unitariness and Myopia: The Executive Branch, Legal Process, and Torture

C Pillard - Ind. LJ, 2006 - HeinOnline
… of drafting the Torture Memo to address CIA concerns, and of developing related advice
applicable to the military reportedly "included only proponents of broad executive power and …

Human Rights law, executive Powers, and torture in the Post-9/11 era

L Hajjar - Human Rights in Crisis, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… in this chapter, i elaborate on the prohibition against torture and various efforts in the … a
torturing regime. i also provide some discussion about the efforts to expose and prevent torture, …

Above the Law: Unlawful Executive Authorizations Regarding Detainee Treatment, Secret Renditions, Domestic Spying, and Claims to Unchecked Executive Power

JJ Paust - Utah L. Rev., 2007 - HeinOnline
… 20, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/ US/1 1/20/torture (stating Wilkerson has no doubt that
Cheney provided the philosophical guidance and flexibility for the torture of detainees); supra …

Faithfully Executing the Laws: Internal Legal Constraints on Executive Power

DE Johnsen - UCLA L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
… The Torture Opinion's extreme reading of the President's commanderin-chief power as
overcoming a statutory prohibition on torture by its terms also could overcome the many other …

What stops the torture?

CR Conrad, WH Moore - American Journal of Political Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… political institutions change executive incentives to order and/or permit torture. Although …
of diffuse power, one dimension of liberal democracy—the more likely it is that the status quo of …

[图书][B] Torture, power, and law

D Luban - 2014 - books.google.com
… of executive power.' 11 The Obama administration does not champion the unitary executive
theory. But that does not mean the Obama administration has ceded executive power, and …

Can the president be torturer in chief

HH Koh - Ind. LJ, 2006 - HeinOnline
… that "as a country we are unalterably committed to a world without torture."" With the … In the
1800s, the courts regularly participated in the delineation and delimitation of executive power. …

[图书][B] Torture: Power, democracy, and the human body

S Biswas, Z Zalloua - 2011 - books.google.com
… The enhancement of executive power that emerges when the imperatives of national
security trump other political demands and desires renders the institutional structures and …