Amos Guiora at the Authors @ Google Series

My former colleague and good friend Amos Guiora recently presented his book “Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation” as part of the Authors @ Google Series.

First, about the series, which seems like a pretty interesting initiative– “Authors@Google is a speaker series where thought-provoking, Zeitgeist-making, trend-setting authors come to the Googleplex to read from their works and share their thoughts with us. The following authors have agreed to release their talks to the world on Google Video.”  Pretty cool, the full list of videos can be found here. 

Congratulations to Amos for being described as thought-provoking, Zeitgeist-making and trend-setting.  That’s three hyphenated adjectives in one summary…few can make such a claim. 

From the summary:

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.

And here’s the Video: