July 19, 2006 4:53PM 

# More on Military Tribunals and the Hamdan Ruling 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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For those interested in the [Hamdan ruling](http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=05-184) and its impact on the law, check out my online [debate](http://www.fed-soc.org/pdf/hamdan.pdf) (pdf) with John Baker, who teaches law at Louisiana State University. The Federalist Society just posted this debate on its [website](http://www.fed-soc.org/) and it is framed in its popular “Five Questions” format, which means I throw five questions at Prof. Baker and vice versa. We then make claims and counterclaims about whether the question is actually relevant. True, this exchange does get pretty legalistic, but that sometimes happens when you’re asked legal questions about judicial rulings.

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