New topics addressed in this edition include limits on the powers of Congress to restrict federal detainees' rights of access to the federal courts and the impact of international law and international tribunals on domestic law. The coverage continues to be comprehensive, but at the same time the authors have in many ways made the book more teachable and more accessible to students. As part of this effort, unnecessary detail has been deleted, materials of primary interest for purposes of further research have been moved to footnotes, and the use of questions has been more rigorously confined