Federal Habeas Corpus and State Procedural Default: An Abstention-Based Interest Analysis

Habeas Corpus and Due Process

The writ of habeas corpus and the right to due process have long been linked together, but their relationship has never been more unsettled or important. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States detained hundreds of suspected terrorists who later brought legal challenges using the writ. In the first of the landmark Supreme Court cases addressing those detentions, Hamdi v. Rum...

Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Perspective

The literature on judicial selection systems has given considerable attention to the role that politicians and their parties – through their legislative roles – have played in the adoption and operation of these judicial selection systems. Less attention, however, has been given to both the effect that interest groups, broadly defined, have in the creation and implementation of judicial selecti...

Who's the Boss?: Armentero, Padilla, and the Proper Respondent in Federal Habeas Corpus Law

Federal Habeas Corpus and the Death Penalty: A Need for a Return to the Principles of Furman

Habeas Corpus: Requirement of Exhaustion of State Remedies before Issuance of Writ Limited to State of Detention