Habeas Prevails at Guantanamo:
A Fresh Start for the Rule of Law, or Too Little, Too Late?
Presenter: Professor Bruce Miller

This version of Professor Miller's presentation is encoded in Flash video.

 

 

List of Principal Cases

1. Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S.Ct. 2229 (2008)(holding that the Habeas Corpus Clause applies to non-citizens detained by the United States at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba).

2. Munaf v. Green, 128 U. S. 2207 (2008)(holding that the habeas corpus jurisdictional statute, 28 U.S.C. 2241 (c) (1), extends to American citizens held abroad by American military forces).

3. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).

4. Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S 266 (2004).

5. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006).

6. Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S.763 (1950).

 

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