Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B. 1950, New York University; LL.B. 1954, Columbia University
Professor Yale Kamisar is the Clarence Darrow Distinguished
University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Law
School and, since 2002, a tenured professor of law at USD. He
teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure, criminal
law, the administration of criminal justice and the politics of
crime. Known as the “Father of Miranda,” he is one of the nation’s
foremost authorities on criminal procedure, having written
a large number of the seminal articles and texts on the subject,
many of which have been quoted or cited by the U.S. Supreme
Court. Kamisar is author of Police Interrogations and
Confessions (University of Michigan Press) and co-author
of two widely-used casebooks: Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments
& Questions (1st ed. 1964, 9th ed. 2001, West Publishing
Co.) (with William B. Locklear, Jesse H. Choper, Steven Shiffrin
and Richard Fallon) and Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments
& Questions (1st ed. 1965, 10th ed. 2002, West Publishing
Co.) (with Wayne LaFave, Jerold Israel and Nancy King). Since
the mid-1960’s Kamisar’s special interest has been
police interrogation and confessions. He has also been a vigorous
defender of the “exclusionary rule” against attacks by courts
and scholars. In addition, Kamisar is a noted expert
on issues related to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
In 1996 he was awarded the American Bar Foundation Award
for his lifetime contributions to research and writing in law
and government.
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