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Kamisar, Yale

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

933 Legal Research
734.647.4038
E-mail ykamisar@umich.edu
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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Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2018 ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2018.

"The Miranda Case Fifty Years Later." B.U. L. Rev. 97, no. 3 (2017): 1293-307.
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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 and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 4th ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2016.

Co-editor. Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions. 14th ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-editors. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2015.​

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text. 2015 ed. J. H. Israel et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing, 2015.

Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions. 12th ed. J. H. choper et al., co-authors. St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic, 2015.​

"A Look Back at the "Gatehouses and Mansions" of American Criminal Procedure." Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 12, no. 2 (2015): 645-58.
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