Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction
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…
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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 writ of habeas corpus has limited the executive in the Anglo-American legal tradition from imprisoning citizens and subjects with impunity. Writing in the eighteenth century, the widely influential English jurist and commentator William Blackstone declared the writ a "bulwark" of personal liberty. Across the Atlantic, in the leadup