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“Amicus Curiae”: The Friend, the Enemy, and the Politics of Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Ian Baucom
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Let me take as my point of departure a question of genre, one raised in the realm of jurisprudence by the amicus brief—that is, the brief of the amicus curiae, or friend of the court: one who is not a party to a case but holds a pressing interest in it. I was drawn to the genre, most immediately, by a reading of the amicus briefs filed in the case of Lakhdar Boumediene et al. v. George W. Bush, which came before the United States Supreme Court on 5 December 2007 and raised the question of whether the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, possessed the habeas corpus rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

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Talks from the Convention
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 5: Special Topic War , October 2009 , pp. 1714 - 1718
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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