Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University and Chair of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, is the author of many books and articles, including The Law as It Could Be and Liberalism Divided. He is one of the most cited legal scholars in the country.

Blog Entries by Owen Fiss

The Example of America

Posted May 12, 2009 | 06:19 PM (EST)


President Obama should support providing legal remedies to those who were victims of torture. Such a stance would provide a measure of justice to the victims of torture and lend credence to President Obama's lofty rhetoric about the future. It would also bring to light constitutional abuses of the past...

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