Police Interrogation and Confessions Yale Kamisar, signed, dj, "Miranda Father"

Description: This is a signed first edition of Police Interrogation and Confessions: Essays in Law and Policy by Yale Kamisar. Yale Kamisar August 29, 1929 – January 30, 2022 became known as the "Father of the Miranda Rule". This book of essays is in collectible, very good condition. Gray cloth covered boards with black spine titles; jacket is worn, with 2" tear in rear edge near base of spine; binding cocked; 8vo- over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; inscribed and signed by the author on half title page; interior clean and unmarked. Below is an excerpt from Professor Kamisar's New York Times' obituary, published on February 4, 2022. Yale Kamisar, Known as the ‘Father’ of the Miranda Rule, Dies at 92His legal scholarship, cited in more than 30 Supreme Court cases, shaped modern criminal procedure, including protections for the rights of the accused.Top of FormBottom of Form By Clay RisenFeb. 4, 2022Yale Kamisar, a legal scholar whose work on civil liberties and criminal procedure had a profound influence on landmark Supreme Court decisions like Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona, died on Sunday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92.His son Gordon confirmed the death.Professor Kamisar began to wrestle with the issues of criminal procedure — the rules under which the legal system adjudicates crimes — in the late 1950s, as a newly hired faculty member at the University of Minnesota.At the time, the subject was considered largely a sideshow to the big questions in constitutional law. What few courses existed were sloughed off on new hires, and everyone expected Professor Kamisar to move quickly into teaching antitrust, an area he knew from his time working for a Washington law firm.Instead, within a decade he established himself as the leading figure in an area of the law that, thanks in large part to his work, suddenly seemed not just important but intellectually vibrant. He continued that work at the University of Michigan, where he moved in 1965.“He made the subject matter,” Nancy J. King, who teaches criminal procedure at Vanderbilt University and studied under Professor Kamisar at Michigan, said in a phone interview. “He created constitutional criminal procedure as a topic that demanded its own text, and as a field of study.”The man had met the moment. By the early 1960s the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, was emerging as a bulwark of civil liberties. And the White House, first under John F. Kennedy and then under Lyndon B. Johnson, was expanding its defense of civil rights, in part by making sure that people of color had legal protections against abuse bylaw enforcement.“There was this period of police brutalization of predominantly Black and brown people, especially in the South,” said Eve Primus, who also studied under Professor Kamisar and now holds a chair in his name at Michigan. “Yale, being the person that he was,understood that there were opportunities to move law forward.”His work was first cited by the Supreme Court in its 1963 decision in Gideon, which established the right to legal counsel in criminal cases. Written by Justice Hugo Black, it was the first of more than 30 decisions over the next half-century to cite Professor Kamisar’s work.“He was writing articles about what the court should do and what the court had done recently, and they were in turn citing him,” Orin Kerr, a law professor at the University of California,Berkeley, said in an interview.Professor Kamisar’s greatest impact on the court came in1966, in its decision in Miranda.The year before, he had published a lengthy essay in which he compared the American legal system to a gatehouse and a mansion — the gatehouse being the police interrogation room and the mansion the courtroom.“The courtroom is a splendid place where defense attorneys bellow and strut and prosecuting attorneys are hemmed in at many turns,” he wrote. “But what happens before an accused reaches the safety and enjoys the comfort of this veritable mansion? Ah, there’s the rub.Typically he must first pass through a much less pretentious edifice, a police station with bare back rooms and locked doors.”The courts offered extensive protections, rooted in the Fifth Amendment, covering the right against self-incrimination. But no such protections existed in the police station,where interrogators could coerce a suspect to confess.No system of justice could last long, Professor Kamisar argued, if it relied on the coerced flow of information from the accused. The court agreed. In a decision written by Chief Justice Warren and citing Professor Kamisar’s work, it ruled in 1966 that criminal defendants had to be informed of their rights before being questioned,especially their rights to remain silent and to legal counsel.That same year Time magazine wrote that “at 37, Kamisar has already produced a torrent of speeches and endless writings that easily make him the most overpowering criminal-law scholar in the U.S.” Others called him the “father of Miranda.”

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