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The Osborne Clarke Ideas Law Lecture
Philippe Sands on Torture and the Law
22 May 08
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

What happens when lawyers do the bidding of politicians? In the style of the best investigative journalism, international lawyer Philippe Sands, author of internationally acclaimed Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules, uncovers the story behind the human-rights abuses sanctioned by the highest individuals in the Bush administration and the terrible consequences of their actions. Who were the lawyers, military personnel and politicians who constructed the policy and provided the rationale for the one-page memorandum signed by Donald Rumsfeld on 2 December 2002 authorizing interrogation techniques forbidden under the Geneva Convention?

Torture Team traces the origins of the memorandum through interviews with the key figures speaking out for the first time. This is a chilling and compelling story of men and women corrupted by power and the few who bravely stood out against them.