Word: kamisar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had Minnesota lent Kamisar to Harvard as a visiting professor in 1964, than the University of Michigan hired him for the year after. No matter. Like a Bronx Socrates, he harangues entranced students in thunderous tones that surely reach all three campuses. Kamisar has two passions: "translating" how Supreme Court decisions affect all Americans' liberties-and blasting polemicists who accuse the court of "coddling criminals." A dangerous counterpuncher in any argument, Kamisar plays no favorites: he has fought American Law Institute conservatives who sought tough model rules of police questioning, while he "gags" at Supreme Court Justices...
...years, Kamisar has turned out three books, countless speeches and 13 legal articles reflecting ferocious research. His first effort began as a brief book review on the subject of mercy killing, plunged him into six months' research and produced a 60-page article with 250 footnotes. His next piece, on search and seizure, took seven months, ran up to 125 pages with 400 footnotes. In 1964 he was co-author of a pamphlet on Modern Criminal Procedure that has since grown to 875 pages. He is also coauthor of a constitutional casebook used in 50 law schools...
...YALE KAMISAR...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...
Other signers include David Hurwitz '25, associate clinical professor of Medicine; Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; Yale Kamisar, visiting professor of Law; John, H. Mansfield '51, professor of Law; David L. Shapiro '54, assistant professor of Law; Henry J. Steiner '51, assistant professor of Law; and Bernard Wolfman, visiting professor...