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Conference Announcement "Torture and Terror" International Conference Law School, University of Hull Hull (UK) 15-16 November 2007 __________________________________________________ Although prohibited by customary international law, the practice of torture has persevered worldwide and has long been regarded in security circles to be justifiable as a practical necessity. Against the backdrop of the war on terror, we have seen the recent dramatic development of an intellectual defence of torture: a number of respectable scholars, lawyers and politicians have begun to present sophisticated arguments seeking to justify torture in certain circumstances, in particular to prevent acts of terror. These claims, in conjunction with more established reasoning against the practice, make this an opportune time to re-examine the torture debate. Thursday 15 November 2007 Morning Session 9:20 a.m. Welcome: Mike Feintuck (Director, Hull Law School) 9:30 a.m. Marina Lalatta Costerbosa (Bologna, Italy): Torture in the Modern Age 10:00 a.m. Patrick Birkinshaw (Hull): English Law and Evidence Obtained by Torture: Vindication of Basic Principle or Judicial Abnegation 10:30 a.m. Discussion 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break 11:40 a.m. Michael S. Moore (Illinois, USA): Patrolling the Borders of Consequentialist Justifications: The Scope of Agent-Relative Restrictions 12:10 p.m. Discussion 12:30 p.m. Lunch Afternoon Session 1:50 p.m. Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg, Germany): Torture and Democracy 2:20 p.m. Uwe Steinhoff (Hong Kong): Some Problems Concerning Torture: Moral Justification, Legal Institutionalization and Retribution 2:50 p.m. Discussion 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break 4:00 p.m. Massimo la Torre (Hull and Catanzaro, Italy): Lawyers, Bad Christians: Torture and the Legality Principle 4:30 p.m. Discussion 4:50 p.m. Close Friday 16 November 2007 Morning Session 9:30 a.m. Linda Shields (Hull) and Susan Benedict (South Carolina, USA): Torture and Terror - Nurses in Nazi Germany 10:00 a.m. Discussion 10:20 a.m. Coffee Break 10:50 a.m. Tsvetana Kamenova (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia): Survey of the crime of torture in the law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 11:20 a.m. Francesco Belvisi (Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy): The Ticking Bomb Scenario as a Moral Scandal 11:50 p.m. Discussion 12:30 p.m. Lunch Afternoon Session 1:50 p.m. Bev Clucas (Hull): Law, Torture and Legitimacy in 24 2:20 p.m. Agustín José Menéndez (León, Spain, and ARENA, Oslo, Norway): Torturing Constitutional Theory: The constitution of Bush II and the juridification of torture 2:50 p.m. Discussion 3:30 p.m. Coffee break 4 p.m. Penny Green (King's College London) and Tony Ward (Hull): Torture and the Paradox of State Violence 4:30 p.m. Discussion 4:50 p.m. General Discussion 5:30 p.m. Close Enquiries and booking: Kayleigh Hadley [email protected] Other queries: Bev Clucas [email protected] Conference Website: http://www.hull.ac.uk/law/newsevents/events/07tortureconf.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
