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Our world has changed dramatically in the half-century since the first volume of the Suffolk University Law Review went to press. For one, we no longer need a press, or ink for that matter, to share our ideas widely. The Internet and technology more generally are...

Constitutional Law – Eleventh Circuit Rejects Federal “Look Through” Approach on Federal Habeas Corpus Petitions – Wilson v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison, 834 F.3d 1227 (11th Cir. 2016) (en banc), cert. granted sub nom. Wilson v. Sellers, No. 16-6855, 2017 WL 737820 (S. Ct. Feb. 27, 2017) (mem.)

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a civil post-conviction motion the first Congress borrowed from English common law to guard against the unconstitutional detainment of persons protected by the new Constitution. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty...