April 09, 2025
12:00 pm

Habeas Corpus and the Ends of Human Freedom

Throughout Anglo-American legal history, the writ of habeas corpus been celebrated as a great bulwark of human freedom. Thus, habeas jurisprudence has also served as a battleground for starkly different answers to the question of “why the common law has such great regard for the body of a man,” as Chief Justice Sir John Popham put it in 1605. Join CIT for an exploration of habeas corpus as a lens through which to understand these competing views of the ends of human freedom.

Speakers

Micah Quigley

Paul Halliday

Moderator

William M. M. Kamin

Location

Habeas Corpus and the Ends of Human Freedom

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