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  • On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

  • Richard B. Bilder
  • Journal:
    American Journal of International Law / Volume 114 / Issue 1 / January 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 January 2020, pp. 87-95
    Print publication:
    January 2020
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  • Book Reviews and Libel Proceedings

  • Lori Fisler Damrosch, Bernard H. Oxman, Richard B. Bilder, David D. Caron
  • Journal:
    American Journal of International Law / Volume 104 / Issue 2 / April 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 226-227
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    April 2010
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  • 7 - Speaking Law to Power: Lawyers and Torture

    • By Richard B. Bilder, Foley & Lardner-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Detlev F. Vagts, Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School
  • Edited by Karen J. Greenberg, New York University
  • Book:
    The Torture Debate in America
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    05 August 2012
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    21 November 2005, pp 151-161

  • Summary

    THE DISCLOSURE OF GOVERNMENT LEGAL MEMORANDA SEEKING TO JUStify coercive interrogation of U.S.-held detainees raises important and recurrent questions concerning the appropriate role and responsibilities of U.S. government attorneys, particularly when they advise on questions of international and U.S. foreign relations law.

    As is now well known, these memoranda advised administration officials that, among other things, the humanitarian Geneva Conventions were inapplicable to Taliban detainees or persons suspected of links with Al Qaeda or terrorism; that the Torture Convention and other treaties barring torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, as well as U.S. law implementing such treaties, prohibit only the most extreme methods of coercive interrogation; that the 1994 U.S. statute criminalizing the commission of torture did not apply to interrogations conducted at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because the U.S. naval station there was within the definition of the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the U.S. and thus outside the scope of the statute; and that, in any case, the president as commander-in-chief has constitutional authority to disregard treaty or statutory prohibitions on the use of torture or other coercive interrogation techniques in conducting the “war on terror.” Indeed, White House counsel dismissed relevant prohibitions of the Geneva Conventions as “obsolete.”

    At least some State Department and military Judge Advocate General lawyers protested those memoranda. And many others – in the U.S. legal community and beyond – have attacked them as legally and morally unsupportable, likely to endanger our own military personnel, and damaging to our country's reputation and national interest.

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