Of Monsters & Lawyers Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This is a review essay of David Luban's important and prescient new book, Torture, Power, and Law. The review essay focuses on two of Luban's central arguments: The fallacious trade-off between civil liberties and national security after the 9/11 attacks and the manipulation of anti-torture law by Bush administration lawyers. Although I largely agree with Luban's analysis, I contend that the "coercive interrogation program" and other war on terror policies cannot be fully understood without considering anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States. I also question whether, in analyzing the ethics of government lawyers, the distinction between frivolous and non-frivolous legal positions is as marked as Luban suggests.

published proceedings

  • Criminal Justice Ethics

altmetric score

  • 0.75

author list (cited authors)

  • Markovic, M

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Markovic, Milan

publication date

  • March 2015