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Habeas Corpus: From 17th Century England to Today

June 04, 2018

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Amanda Tyler of Berkeley Law unveils her latest book, Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay, the definitive history of the role habeas corpus has played during war, from its English origins to America’s Founding period to today. Lana Ulrich, senior director content for the National Constitution Center, moderates.
 


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  • Amanda Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is the author of Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay and a co-editor of Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal. She has been published in leading law reviews such the Notre Dame Law Review, California Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review. She has been a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a past Chair of the Federal Courts Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
     
  • Lana Ulrich is the senior director of content, constitutional fellow, and senior counsel at the National Constitution Center, where she manages the Center's constitutional content and programming, including podcasts, America's Town Hall programs, exhibits, the online Interactive Constitution, and the Constitution Daily blog. She also assists with any legal matters relating to the Center's operations and directs the Continuing Legal Education program.
     

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