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Kamisar, Yale

Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law

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Yale Kamisar, the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus at the Law School, is a nationally recognized authority on constitutional law and criminal procedure. A graduate of New York University and Columbia Law School, he has written extensively on criminal law, the administration of criminal justice, and the "politics of crime." He is author of Police Interrogation and Confessions: Essays in Law and Policy and coauthor of Criminal Justice in Our Time, and The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments (five annual volumes). He wrote the chapter on constitutional criminal procedure for The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't, The Burger Years, and The Warren Court: A Retrospective. He is also coauthor of two widely used casebooks: Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments & Questions, all ten editions, and Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments & Questions, all nine editions. In addition, he has written numerous articles on police interrogation and confessions; right to counsel; search and seizure; and euthanasia and assisted suicide, and is widely quoted on these subjects. Professor Kamisar taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1957 to 1964 and joined the University of Michigan law faculty in 1965.

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"The Rise, Decline and Fall(?) of Miranda." Wash. L. Rev. 87, no. 4 (2012): 965-1040.

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Co-author. Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions. 13 ed. W. R. LaFave et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2012.

Co-author. Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2012.

Co-author. Basic Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions. 13 ed. W. R. LaFave et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2012.

Co-author. Advanced Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions. 13 ed. W. R. LaFave et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2012.

Co-author. Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments, Questions. 11th ed. J. H. Choper et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2011.

Co-author. Leading Cases in Constitutional Law. 2010 ed. J.H.Cooper et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2010.

Co-author. Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2010 ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2010.

"Miranda v. United States." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 225-8. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

"Massiah v. United States." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 208-10. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

"Mallory v. United States." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 200-1. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

"I Remember Professor Wechsler." Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 7, no. 1 (2009): 249-55.

"How Much Does it Matter Whether Courts Work Within the "Clearly Marked" Provisions of the Bill of Rights or With the "Generalities" of the Fourteenth Amendment?" Contemp. Legal Issues 18, no. 1 (2009): 513-33.
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"Florida v. Bostick." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 108. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

"Escobedo v. Illinois." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 99. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

Co-author. Criminal Procedure and the Constitution Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2009 ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2009.

Co-author. Constitutional Law: Leading Cases. 2009 ed. J.H. Choper, R.H. Fallon, Jr., and S.H. Shiffrin, co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2009.

"California v. Acevedo." In The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 2d ed., edited by K.L. Hall and J.W. Ely Jr., 52-53. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

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