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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...