Students and professors will join a visiting professor tonight to examine habeas corpus for the third time this year.
The third lecture of the George Washington Forum called, Habeas Corpus: London
Calcutta Guantanamo Bay will feature Paul Halliday, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Habeas corpus refers to the right of a detainee to obtain a writ as protection against illegal imprisonment.
The lecture will connect what I know about the three
Halliday said.
Halliday was cited by both sides of the Guantanamo Bay Supreme Court case and recently published a book on the matter.
You can't understand this incredibly important and divisive issue unless you look at how it has worked in the Anglo judicial system
said Robert Ingram, the event's organizer.
The speech is the final part of the George Washington Forum and was made possible by a $20,000 grant from the Jack Miller Center as well as $21,400 from the 1804 fund.
Ingram said he hopes students who come to the forum gain a greater appreciation of the historical context of the liberties we know and cherish today.
Ingram added that the main idea of the forum for this school year is to analyze our freedoms from the opposite angle of how we restrict them.
We wanted to start off on a counterintuitive note
Ingram said, You think freedom is a basic value
so let's talk about constraint.
Ingram added that the forum will provide an environment for students to learn about controversial topics and to express and develop their own viewpoints.
We want to do it to provide a place on campus for genuine intellectual diversity
Ingram said. We hope it's polite but pointed. We hope people can defend controversial topics reasonably.
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