Amanda L. Tyler

Amanda L. Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner 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 procedure. Tyler is the co-author, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union. She is also author of Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (Oxford University Press 2017) (paperback edition 2019) and Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2021). In addition, Tyler has served since 2016 as a co-editor of Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press), and she was a contributing author to Federal Court Stories (Foundation Press 2010) and the Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution (Cambridge University Press 2018). Tyler's scholarship has been published in many leading law journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, and she has written for the Lawfare Blog and the Atlantic, among others. Tyler is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School and a former 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.