Aman­da L. Tyler is Shan­non Cecil Turn­er Pro­fes­sor of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley School of Law, where she teach­es and writes about the Supreme Court, the fed­er­al courts, con­sti­tu­tion­al law, and civ­il pro­ce­dure. The author of many arti­cles and sev­er­al books, includ­ing Habeas Cor­pus in Wartime: From the Tow­er of Lon­don to Guan­tanamo Bay, Tyler also serves as a coed­i­tor of the promi­nent case­book and trea­tise Hart and Wechsler’s The Fed­er­al Courts and the Fed­er­al Sys­tem. Tyler served as a law clerk to the Hon­or­able Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg at the Supreme Court of the Unit­ed States dur­ing the Octo­ber Term 1999.