am grateful to the many students and colleagues participating in these presentations for their many valuable comments and probing questions. I would also like to thank the members of the Law of Torture Listserv, whose comments, encouragement, and knowledge have made the Essay far better. Finally, I wish to thank Paul Kahn and Mike Seidman, who have argued with me every step of the way. 'See, e.g., Filartiga v.

am grateful to the many students and colleagues participating in these presentations for their many valuable comments and probing questions. I would also like to thank the members of the Law of Torture Listserv, whose comments, encouragement, and knowledge have made the Essay far better. Finally, I wish to thank Paul Kahn and Mike Seidman, who have argued with me every step of the way. 'See, e.g., Filartiga v.

David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges over such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view. His discussion combines philosophical argument, legal analysis and many cases drawn from actual law practice, and he defends a theory of legal ethics that focuses on lawyers' role in enhancing human dignity and human rights. In addition to an analytical introduction, the volume includes two major previously unpublished papers, including a detailed critique of the US government lawyers who produced the notorious 'torture memos'. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both philosophy and law.

This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the "war on terrorism" by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban reflects on this contentious topic in a powerful sequence of essays including two new and previously unpublished pieces. He analyzes the trade-offs between security and human rights, as well as the connection between torture, humiliation, and human dignity; the fallacy of using ticking-bomb scenarios in debates about torture; and the ethics of government lawyers. The book develops an illuminating and novel conception of torture as the use of pain and suffering to communicate absolute dominance over the victim. Factually stimulating and legally informed, this volume provides the clearest analysis to date of the torture debate. It brings the story up to date by discussing the Obama administration's failure to hold torturers accountable.

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