His position was fiercely criticised by Professor Conor Gearty of the London School of Economics, one of Britain's leading experts on human rights law.
Another panelist on Wednesday, Michael Gearty, a portfolio specialist for Transparent Value Mutual Funds, said that his general approach to investing was to mathematically and unemotionally figure out what something is worth.
Professor Gearty accused Justice Scalia of creating a "nightmare scenario of mass destruction that all defenders of torture so need, to hide the fact that the reality of torture will be quite different".