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Lawfare Archive: Amanda Tyler on “Habeas Corpus in Wartime”

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🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

From May 15, 2018: In her new book, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay," Amanda Tyler presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition. On Monday, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Tyler at the Hoover Book Soiree for a wide-ranging discussion of the history of habeas corpus, where its origins really lie in English law, and how it has changed over the years in the United States, from the Founding to modern cases of counterterrorism.

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Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair

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no bull and the aftermath.

0:32.6

I'm Emily Day and this is an episode from the LawFair archives for December 12th, 2021.

0:44.7

One of the biggest cases on the Supreme Court docket this term is United States versus

0:48.2

Zubeta.

0:49.2

Abou Zubeta recently petitioned for a lease after being held without charge by the United

0:53.5

States for nearly 20 years on the grounds of America's wars in Afghanistan and with

0:57.6

Al Qaeda are over.

0:59.5

To give some more context to Zubeta's new habeas corpus push, I chose an episode from May 15th,

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2018 in which Amanda Tyler discusses her new book, A habeas corpus in wartime from the

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Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay and how habeas corpus has changed over the years from

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the founding to modern cases of counterterrorism.

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I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast May 15th, 2018.

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Amanda Tyler is a professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.

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She is also the author of habeas corpus in wartime from the Tower of London to Guantanamo

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Bay.

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She joined me on Monday at the Hoover Book Suarez for a wide ranging discussion of the history

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of habeas, where its origins really lie in English law and how it has changed over the

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years in the United States.

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