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Previous 		Contents: Volume 6, Number 2, May 2008   [Index by Author] 

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Special Issue The Law of Cruelty: Torture as an International Crime

Edited by Jens David Ohlin and George P. Fletcher

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Introduction Back

Jens David Ohlin and George P. Fletcher
Introduction
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 157-158; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

I. The Legal Contours of the Crime of Torture Back

Christoph Burchard
Torture in the Jurisprudence of the Ad Hoc Tribunals: A Critical Assessment
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 159-182; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paola Gaeta
When is the Involvement of State Officials a Requirement for the Crime of Torture?
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on April 24, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 183-193; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonio Marchesi
Implementing the UN Convention Definition of Torture in National Criminal Law (with Reference to the Special Case of Italy)
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 195-214; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brad R. Roth
Just Short of Torture: Abusive Treatment and the Limits of International Criminal Justice
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on April 8, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 215-239; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

II. Can We Ever Justify or Excuse Torturers? Back

Alon Harel and Assaf Sharon
What is Really Wrong with Torture?
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 241-259; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn017 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kai Ambos
May a State Torture Suspects to Save the Life of Innocents?
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 261-287; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jens David Ohlin
The Bounds of Necessity
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 289-308; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Wallace
Torture v. the Basic Principles of the US Military
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 309-322; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

III. Suing Torturers for Compensation: Mission Impossible? Back

Jaykumar A. Menon
Guantánamo Torture Litigation
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 323-345; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bardo Fassbender
Can Victims Sue State Officials for Torture?: Reflections on Rasul v. Myers from the Perspective of International Law
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 347-369; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes and Comments Back

John C. Dehn
Why Article 5 Status Determinations are not ‘Required’ at Guantánamo
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 371-383; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonio Cassese
Under What Conditions May Belligerents be Acquitted of the Crime of Attacking an Ambulance?
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 385-397; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews Back

Robert D. Sloane
Ronald C. Slye and Beth Van Schaack, International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement – Cases and Materials
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 399-400; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tracey Gurd
Noëlle N.R. Quénivet, Sexual Offenses in Armed Conflict & International Law
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 400-401; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Page Wilson
Gideon Boas, The Milosevic Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 401-402; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Schüttpelz
Thilo Marauhn (ed.), Bausteine eines europäischen Beweisrechts
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 402-403; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fedelma Claire Smith
Donatella della Porta, Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter (eds), The Policing of Transnational Protest
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 403-404; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laurence Carrier-Desjardins
Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops, Redressing Miscarriages of Justice: Practice and Procedure in National and International Criminal Law Cases
Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
J Int Criminal Justice 2008 6: 404-405; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqn002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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