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Yale Kamisar
Yale Kamisar, 92, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, died on 30 January 2022. The Funeral was held at Graveside at Forest Hills Cemetery, 415 Observatory St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 on Tuesday, 01 February 2022 at 1:00 PM . Rabbi Josh Whinston officiated. Click  to watch a video of the recorded service.Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Professor Yale Kamisar, legal scholar and author, died peacefully on Sunday, January 30, 2022, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, surrounded by his loving family. Yale Kamisar was born in the Bronx, New York on August 29, 1929, to Samuel and Mollie (Levine) Kamisar, Eastern European Jewish immigrants with limited formal education. From these modest beginnings, Yale became an eminent legal scholar, author, and teacher. At the time of his passing, Yale was the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan, where he had taught (and entertained) students for 40 years. A nationally recognized authority on constitutional law and criminal procedure, Professor Kamisar was often referred to as the "father of Miranda" for his influential role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Miranda v. Arizona in 1966. The Court cited one of Kamisar's most famous essays, Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure, in that decision. But Professor Kamisar’s contributions to the field of criminal law extend far beyond Miranda. Yale’s writings on criminal law and the administration of justice spanned decades, influencing generations of scholars, jurists, and lawyers. Professor Kamisar’s work has been cited in more than thirty U.S. Supreme Court opinions, and hundreds of lower federal court and state court decisions. Francis A. Allen, former Dean of University of Michigan Law School, described Yale’s book Police Interrogation and Confessions: Essays in Law and Policy (1980), as "one of the great achievements of legal scholarship since the end of the Second World War." Professor Kamisar also wrote extensively on the U.S. Supreme Court, contributing to five annual volumes of The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments, as well as chapters on criminal procedure for The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't, The Burger Years, and The Warren Court: A Retrospective. A prolific casebook writer, Professor Kamisar co-authored 10 editions of Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments & Questions, and 10 editions of Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments & Questions over a 50-year span. Most law schools continue to use these textbooks today, a testament to the enduring value of his work. Over the years, Professor Kamisar received a range of honors and awards in recognition of his contributions to law and legal scholarship. In 1978, Yale received an L.L.D honorary degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. The following year, he received an honorary degree from the University of Puget Sound. In 1990, the National Law Journal named Yale as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country. When Professor Kamisar retired from full-time teaching in 2004, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a tribute, stating that “from his early years as a law teacher, Yale produced pathmarking scholarship.” She added: “with Yale…I have seen not only the mark of a great warrior, ever ready to leap into the breach to relieve injustice. I have seen as well a fine thinker at work, one ready to reconsider even long-held beliefs in hopes of finding a better answer.” Professor Kamisar was an alumnus of New York University, which he attended on an academic scholarship, and Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review and graduated second in his class. Professor Kamisar was also a veteran who served as a 1st lieutenant in the United States Army during the Korean War. In 1952, he commanded a platoon in the assault on T-Bone Hill, during which he was wounded in one of the bloodiest battles of the war. During that battle, he ascended the enemy-occupied hill in broad daylight with just one man in front of him and hundreds of soldiers behind him. He was awarded four military medals: the Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Republic of Korea-Korea War Service Medal. After the war, he began his legal career as an associate at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., where he practiced antitrust law under the mentorship of firm partner Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State in the Harry S. Truman Administration. Yale soon left private practice to begin his teaching career at the University of Minnesota Law School and then Harvard Law School. In 1965, he became a tenured Professor at the University of Michigan, retiring in 2003. He also taught at the University of San Diego School of Law. Yale was a loving husband, father, and grandfather who will be deeply missed by his family. He will be remembered not only for his devotion to his family but also for his keen sense of humor and extraordinary ability to tell a great story, a talent that has been passed on to his sons. Yale is survived by his wife Joan (Russell); sons David (Denise) Kamisar of West Bloomfield, Michigan, Gordon (Karen) Kamisar, of Sammamish, Washington and Jonathan (Stacy) Kamisar of Weston, Connecticut; grandchildren Jennifer, Nicholas, Ben (Shelby Lopez) and Mia Kamisar; and sister Myrna (Jerry) Berkin; extended family members, friends, colleagues. He is preceded in death by his twin sister Bernice (Samuel) Adler. It is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of Yale Kamisar may do so by making a contribution to: A Charity of one's choice |