Making habeas work : a legal history / Eric M. Freedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Eric M., author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habeas corpus--United States--History.

Habeas corpus.

Habeas corpus--England--History.

United States.

England.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 as an instrument of checks and balances.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781479802470

1479802476

OCLC:

1032811259