The 2012 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting featured an "Author Meets Critics" roundtable on
HABEAS CORPUS IN AMERICA: THE POLITICS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (University Press of Kansas), by
Justin J. Wert. According to the Press, the book "[t]rac[es] the history of the writ from the Founding to
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and
Boumediene v. Bush," with an emphasis on "the political" rather than "the judicial."
The
Law & Politics Book Review has now published written versions of the participants' remarks. Follow the links for reviews by
Judith A. Baer (Texas A&M University),
Thomas M. Keck (Syracuse University),
J. Mitchell Pickerill (Northern Illinois University), and
Ronald Kahn (Oberlin College).
