Professor Amanda Tyler offers a searing look at episodes in U.S. history when the federal government undermined its citizens' legal rights during times of war... Her critique reveals an incremental breakdown of habeas corpus, starting with the American Revolution and continuing through the war on terror."- Susan Gluss, BerkleyLaw
Amanda L. Tyler is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches and writes about the federal courts, the Supreme Court, constitutional law, legal history, and civil procedure. Professor Tyler's scholarship has been published in leading law journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Stanford Law Review. She also serves as a co-editor of Hart and Wechsler's The Federal
Courts and the Federal System. Professor Tyler is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Following law school, she served as law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United
States. She has run eight Boston marathons.