Federal Habeas Corpus – 6834

This course will study the evolution of habeas corpus and how the habeas remedy is utilized in the federal court system today. This study provides students an opportunity to observe how constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, civil procedure and even trial and appellate practice all bear upon the courts’ struggle to apply habeas corpus law to individual cases.  Our focus will be equally divided between habeas litigation of the Guantanamo cases (28 USC Sec 2241) and death penalty cases (28 USC Sec 2254).