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Making habeas work : a legal history /

Eric M. Freedman "Making Habeas Work: A Legal History" explores habeas corpus, a judicial order that requires a person under arrest to be brought before an independent judge or into court. In his book, Freedman critically discusses habeas corpus as a common law writ, as a legal remedy and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freedman, Eric M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Habeas corpus as a common law writ
  • Knowing habeas corpus when you see it
  • Habeas corpus with and without the writ: some illustrative cases
  • The benefits of a functional view: the past educating the present
  • Habeas corpus as a legal remedy
  • Captain Hodsdon's legal entanglements
  • The habeas corpus strand of restraints on government
  • The damages actions strands of restraints on government
  • The criminal prosecution strands of restraints on government
  • Interweaving actions
  • The connecting strand: the jury
  • The dual strand: legislative intervention
  • Habeas corpus as an instrument of checks and balances
  • Separation of powers: allocation of roles v. checks and balances
  • Courts in the new nation: a tempestuous beginning
  • John Marshall's sea mine: ex parte bollman and the precatory suspension
  • Clause
  • Courts weather the storm
  • Boumediene defuses Bollman
  • Conclusion.