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their work visit invisiblehistory.com. >> we ask what are you reading this summer? here's what you had to say. send us a tweet at booktv using the tag summer reading to let us know what you plan on reading this summer. e-mail us at booktv/c-span.org. up next author and professor eric posner. the university of chicago's kirkland and ellis professor of law will speak on international law and the difficulty of a climate change treaty and the balance between security and liberty. mr. posner is the author of "law and social norms" and "the perils of global legalism". he is the co-author o...

call-in program where we feature one of there and his or her body of work. we are pleased to feature eric pose honor. a law professor at the university of chicago. in fact, we are in chicago at the chicago tribune's printer's row with vast and we are joined by a studio audience as well he will have questions. professor, if we could, start by giving us a snapshot of what you do and what you read about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago. i write about a number of different topics. constitutional law and particularly the powers of the presidency. international law,...

Should have been just the beginning are off the hook. like john yoo and jay bybee. from the justice department led by attorney general eric holder in a conclusion made by senior career official thoerksz thr, t attorneys showed poor judgment. that was a downgrade from the harsher finding. some of this into perspective, the investigators finding of misconduct, even if not overruled today, may have amounted to little more than disbarment for the three bush era lawyers, but today's finding says the lawyers did not violate ethics rules. the same three actually carved out so-called standards of tort...

It. >> you said the exact problem and that is if you can't be held accountable for facilitating war crimes, something they don't really discuss in this report, then when can you be held accountable? this is it. the worst case scenario. what the justice department has done is carved out for itself a standard that it can never fail. that even supporting torture is just bad judgment. in this report, it's astonishing what you read. bybee, who is a judge, is sitting in judgment of others right now, is accused in this report of just leaving out critical cases, of leaving out weaknesses. in one case,...