Guantanamo Bay and the judicial-moral treatment of the other.9781557534279 Guantanamo Bay Noun 1. Guantanamo Bay - an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903 bay, embayment - an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf and the judicial-moral treatment of the other. Ed. by Clark Butler. Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. Press
2007 187 pages $21.95 Paperback HV6432 Suggesting that the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay is a moral failure of American Empire, Butler (philosophy, Purdue U.) presents nine papers examining legal and philosophical questions raised by US "enemy combatant Captured fighter in a war who is not entitled to prisoner of war status because he or she does not meet the definition of a lawful combatant as established by the geneva convention; a saboteur. The U.S. " detention policy. Topics addressed include the establishment of Guantanamo and executive power in the United States, constitutional and international law arguments against Guantanamo, the sufficiency of existing international humanitarian law International humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the law of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus "comprised of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, for dealing with the threat of terrorism, the legal failures of Guantanamo military tribunals, Guantanamo as a product of a general American moral malaise, Guantanamo as a symptom of a more wide- ranging legal-philosophic exclusion of the other that is epitomized also by post-9/11 immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. and refugee policy, establishment of a global living wage as a tool to fight the growth of terrorism, and the possible contribution of academic ethics to debates over Guantanamo. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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