Authors@Google: Amos Guiora

Amos Guiora visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation." This event took place on August 18, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

In The Constitutional Limits of Coercive Investigation, Amos Guiora offers a theoretical analysis and a practical application of coercive interrogation, and in doing so, suggests developing and implementing a hybrid paradigm based on American criminal law, the Geneva Convention, and the Israeli model of trial as the most relevant judicial regime. Guiora offers a unique contribution to the public debate by creatively utilizing a historical analysis of the system of "justice" for African-Americans in the Deep South of the past century to serve as a guide for the constitutional rights and protections which need to be granted or extended to an unprotected class. He then indicates which interrogation methods are within the boundaries of the law by both recommending protection of the detainees and providing interrogators with the tools required to protect America's vital interests.

Amos N. Guiora is professor of law at The S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. Guiora testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his proposal advocating the establishment of a domestic terror court in the US. He has testified as an expert witness at a hearing before the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information and Terrorism Risk Assessment. As an expert commentator, he is frequently interviewed and quoted and has been published in the national and international media, including CNN, The Washington Post, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, C-Span, The Christian Science Monitor, and Fox TV.

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