Foreword : The tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond? / Ariel Dorfman --

Contemplating torture : an introduction / Sanford Levinson --

Torture / Henry Shue --

Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer --

Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands" / Jean Bethke Elshtain --

The legal history of torture / John H. Langbein --

American interrogation : from torture to trickery / Jerome H. Skolnick --

The mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war / Mark Osiel --

Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad / John T. Parry --

Judgment concerning the legality of the general security service's interrogation methods / Supreme Court of Israel --

Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience / Miriam Gur-Arye --

The promise and limits of the international law of torture / Oona A. Hathaway --

The European convention on human rights and its prohibition on torture / Fionnuala Ní Aoiláin --

The prohibition on torture and the limits of the law / Oren Gross --

Tortured reasoning / Alan Dershowitz --

Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz / Elaine Scarry --

Torture, terrorism, and interrogation / Richard A. Posner --

Loose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture / Richard H. Weisberg.