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A work like this was long overdue...Both volumes consist of careful, up-to-date and comprehensive, article-by-article, consideration of the relevant normative texts and ensuing practice, and thus recommend themselves as indispensable for both academic international lawyers and for practitioners, whether at public service or in private practice. Alexander Orakhelashvili, European Journal of International Law, 2009 The publication of this timely addition to the literature, regarding an incredibly timely subject, removes any excuse for misinterpreting the norms and definitions of every feature of the Un's 1984 Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane of Degrading Treatment of Punishment...From this point forward, any book or article that fails to rely on this valuable resource is suspect, if its goal is to accurately state the underpinnings of these various features of the Torture Convention...Libraries or private collections which specialize in the assessment of issues relating to torture could not possibly boast of completeness without this well-written and superbly documented contribution to the literature on torture. ASIL Newsletter, May 2009

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Professor Manfred Nowak is Director of the Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Professor of International Human Rights, University of Vienna, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and a former Judge of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovnia Elizabeth McArthur is a research assistant at the Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and a former Human Rights Officer with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

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