Apart from criminal law or contract law, the Torture Act provides individuals and groups with compensation for damage to all aspects of life from physical harm, property damage and personal humiliation. Over the past decades, no legal body in the civil justice system has seen further agitation from the Law of Damages.

In the United States, state courts, federal courts, and the Supreme Court have been active in the development of torture. This edited collection includes a scholarship from many of today's most influential contributors to the Compensation and Compensation System Grant.

Topics include the achievement of original catalysts for norms of antiquity and onwards, the provocative analysis of five of McPherson's turbines against Buick Motor Company to the United States against Carroll Tawing and an explicit assessment of damage restrictions within the broader compensation system objectives.