Throughout Anglo-American legal history, the writ of habeas corpus has 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.