From Stuartstown to Guantanamo and Beyond
(Professor Eric Freedman) - April 2, 2009

There is an event organized by one our members, Megan De Vorsey, who leads the Social Justice Institute at Pierce Law. Megan is hosting Professor Eric Freedman of Hofstra Law School, who has found some remarkable case materials from the North Country in our state archives that help explain the origins of habeas corpus law. His talk is called "From Stewartstown to Guantanamo and Beyond."

Professor Freedman is the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra Law School. His career combines scholarship in constitutional law with public interest litigation in a variety of civil liberties fields including capital punishment, the habeas corpus rights of alleged terrorists and others, and the First Amendment. He has testified to Congress on several of these matters as well as on the limits of Presidential power. Professor Freedman will discuss his current research at the New Hampshire Archives with respect to both the history of habeas corpus and discuss its implications for the future of habeas corpus law.