Word: kamisar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destroy the American judicial system." If nothing else, Scale's collision with the judge illustrates a key weakness in U.S. legal process. "This shows that the fragile legal system functions only if everyone is willing to some extent to play the game by the rules," says Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. Believing that the game was unjust, Scale refused to play by the rules. And the able but adamant Hoffman has been unable to teach him any respect for the referee...
...Government policy, the A.C.L.U, insisted, has already created "a chill and a pall" among those legitimate political protesters who might fall within the Government's new eavesdropping "dragnet." University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar speculated recently that the Nixon Administration was openly inviting a showdown with the Supreme Court on the wiretapping issue. "The court is hurt," explained Kamisar, "and the Justice Department thinks it can win, given the current public climate about crime and coddling criminals...
...hands of some other body-and for repealing scores of antique laws that make it criminal to behave in ways that offended society in the past but are now irrelevant. "The white middle class uses criminal codes as garbage cans," says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. "Whenever it has a problem it doesn't want to treat adequately, it draws up a criminal statute...
Over the past year, Kamisar has slain assorted dragons at 13 high-powered "confession" conferences from Arizona to New Jersey. As a debater, he sometimes verges on logomania-while disarming even his worst enemies with veracity as well as vivacity. As former U.S. Solicitor General (now Federal...
Judge) Simon Sobeloff puts it: "Many people think quickly but inaccurately, or perceive clearly but take too long getting there. Kamisar combines the two virtues...