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(0)Amanda Tyler
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English
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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.
This Very Short Introduction chronicles the storied writ of habeas corpus and how its common law and statutory origins...
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Law in the public square volume 2
Physical Desc
xi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. [This book] is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg...