On the one hand it’s a great time to be a legal historian.
Feeling so relevant!
On the other: holy sh*t.
Feeling so relevant!
On the other: holy sh*t.
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Andy Craig
The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.
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tells us about this idea that yo can't just be thrown in jail for no good reason, and left there
really, we want to know about this
See e.g.
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Question_of_Freedom.html?id=riQGEAAAQBAJ
To your larger question, civil rights violations under Jim Crow — were of course often violations of habeus corpus, & illegal imprisonment.
would be Dukes of wherever.
And yes, inevitably, your own topic might harm you. I'm on the third watershed conflict to fuck up my life/career.