I dont recall where I orignally saw this article, but I think I either did comment, or thought about commenting, that R. Bleich must watch 24.
It's a standard law review type of thing. now, I went to law school after 24's debut, so it could be an indirect influence, but there's certainly no proof that this law prof watches 24.
See, for example, Torture: A Collection (Sanford Levinson ed., Oxford University Press, 2004), for an entire collection of articles essentially dealing with this subject.
People were talking about it right after 9/11 - I think before 24.
The phrase "ticking bomb" has been in use for ages. In particular, the Israeli military says that they only use torture-like tactics if they believe there is a ticking bomb, and this use predactes 24 by several decades.
I bet he doesn't even have a TV.
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