Habeas Corpus
A Very Short Introduction
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- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2021
Summary
Legal scholar Amanda L. Tyler discusses the history and future of habeas corpus in America and around the world.
The concept of habeas corpus—literally, to receive and hold the body—empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the basis on which they are being held by the government and grant prisoners their freedom when they are held unlawfully. It is no wonder that habeas corpus has long been considered essential to freedom.
For nearly eight hundred years, the w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190918989 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0190918985 |
| Author: | Amanda L. Tyler |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
It is a real achievement to encapsulate and illustrate these various themes and principles so concisely, enabling even the reader without any prior legal knowledge to gain an insight into the nature of what has long been celebrated as this “great palladium of the liberties of the subject”. * Trevor Allan, Society *
In this elegantly concise and concisely elegant volume, Amanda Tyler introduces readers to the privilege of the ‘writ of habeas corpus’—one of the only individual liberties expressly enshrined in the original text of the US Constitution. In a tidy and terrific narrative, Tyler shows not just how an esoteric legal remedy came to be instrumental to the rule of law, but why it is incumbent upon all of us to fight to resurrect its historical role even as contemporary courts increasingly turn their backs. * Stephen I. Vladeck, Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts, University of Texas School of Law *
Amanda L. Tyler
Amanda L. Tyler
Amanda L. Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Her teaching and research interests include federal courts, the Supreme Court, constitutional law, legal history, and procedure.
Professor Tyler is the author of Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay. She also co-authored Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Since 2016, Professor Tyler has served as a co-editor of Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System. She has also contributed to Federal Court Stories and the Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution.
Professor Tyler is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. She previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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