Israel, Jerold H.

Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor Emeritus of Law

925 Legal Research
734.763.9868
E-mail israelj@umich.edu

Jerold H. Israel is a nationally recognized authority on criminal law and criminal procedure. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1959 and served two terms as law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Israel joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School in 1961 and took emeritus status in 1996. He is a coauthor of the most frequently cited criminal procedure treatise, now in its 3rd edition, with seven volumes. He also coauthored an eminent and widely adopted criminal procedure course book, Modern Criminal Procedure. Now in its 12th edition, that book has been used in over 100 law schools by an estimated 400,000 law students. Professor Israel also is a coauthor of a Hornbook on criminal procedure, Concise Hornbooks on criminal investigations and post-investigation procedures, a Nutshell on constitutional criminal procedure, a collection of the leading constitutional decisions in criminal procedure, a course book on white-collar crime, and a Nutshell on white-collar crime. He is the author of numerous law review articles and several bar and government commission reports relating to the legal regulation of the criminal justice system.

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Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions. 15th ed. Y. Kamisar et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2019.

Criminal Procedure Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell. 9th ed. Wayne R. LaFave, co-author. West Academic Publishing, 2019.

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2019 ed. Yale Kamisar et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2019.

Basic Criminal Procedure. 15th ed. Yale Kamisar et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2019.

Advanced Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments, and Questions. 15th ed. Yale Kamisar et al. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic, 2019.

White Collar Crime. 2nd ed. Ellen S. Podgor, Peter J. Henning, and Nancy J. King, co-authors. Hornbook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2018.

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2018 ed. Y. Kamisar et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2018.

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2017 ed. W. R. LaFave et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2017.

Criminal Procedure. 6th ed. W. R. LaFave et al., co-authors. Hornbook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2017.

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 4th ed. Y. Kamisar et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2016.

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