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Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire


ISBN13: 9780674064201
Published: April 2012
Publisher: Belknap Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2010)
Price: £26.95
Hardback edition out of print, ISBN13 9780674049017



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Wildy's Book of the Month - November 2010

We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device.

In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's 'right' to 'liberty' - these are modern idioms - but the possible wrongs committed by a jailer or anyone who ordered a prisoner detained.

This focus on wrongs gave the writ the force necessary to protect ideas about rights as they developed outside of law. This judicial power carried the writ across the world, from Quebec to Bengal. Paradoxically, the representative impulse, most often expressed through legislative action, did more to undermine the writ than anything else. And the need to control imperial subjects would increasingly constrain judges.

The imperial experience is thus crucial for making sense of the broader sweep of the writ's history and of English law. Halliday's work informed the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on prisoners in the Guantanamo detention camps. His eagerly anticipated book is certain to be acclaimed the definitive history of habeas corpus.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Legal History
Contents:
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction: Hearing the Sighs of Prisoners
I. MAKING HABEAS CORPUS
1. The Jailer Jailed: 1605 and Beyond
2. Writing Habeas Corpus
3. Writ of the Prerogative
II. USING HABEAS CORPUS
4. Making Judgments
5. Making Jurisdiction
6. Making Liberties, Making Subjects
III. HABEAS CORPUS, BOUND AND UNBOUND
7. Legislators as Judges
8. Writ Imperial
9. The Palladium of Liberty in Law's Empire
Appendix: A Survey of Habeas Corpus Use, 1500 to 1800
Notes
Manuscript Sources
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index;

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