Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1983
ISSN
2374-3883
Publisher
Rutgers University, School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
There are days when the availability of the federal writ of habeas corpus as a vehicle for challenging criminal convictions collaterally seems assured. The arrival of Professor Robbins' new casebook is itself strong, affirmative evidence. At last a major publishing house has acknowledged that the great body of habeas corpus statutes, rules, and precedents warrants a full-length, hard-bound casebook for classroom use. Implicitly, surely, the publisher assumes that the postconviction writ is here to stay, that it forms a stable and legitimate part of our jurisprudence. 3 At the same time, some members of the Court, particularly Chief Justice Burger and Justice Rehnquist, have launched a multi-faceted assault on the availability of federal collateral review.
Recommended Citation
Larry Yackle,
Review of The Law and Process of Post-Conviction Remedies by Ira P. Robbins
,
in
36
Rutgers Law Review
375
(1983).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1963
