Description
- ISBN-10: 0674064208
- ISBN-13: 978-0674064201
- Edition: Reprint
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication date: 3 April 2012
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 15.24 x 3.25 x 22.86 cm
- Print length: 512 pages
Availability: In Stock
Habeas Corpus – From England to Empire
SKU: 9780674272200
Original price was: ₹599.00.₹437.27Current price is: ₹437.27.
Discover the surprising truth behind habeas corpus, the ‘Great Writ of Liberty,’ in Paul Halliday’s groundbreaking book, ‘Habeas Corpus – From England to Empire.’ Uncover a five-hundred-year revisionist history revealing this legal device as a powerful tool of judicial authority, not just a prisoner’s right. Explore its evolution from 1600s England, where judges used royal power to protect subjects, to its global reach across the British Empire, influencing law in places like Quebec and Bengal. Halliday’s meticulously researched account, informed by thousands of cases, shows how the writ’s power to address jailer wrongs, not modern notions of liberty, gave it force. This definitive history, impacting even the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court’s Boumediene v. Bush ruling, is essential for understanding the writ’s enduring legacy and the complexities of imperial law. A must-read for legal scholars and history enthusiasts available at The Bookish Owl.
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