Yale Kamisar (August 29, 1929 – January 30, 2022) was an American legal scholar and writer who was the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. A "nationally recognized authority on constitutional law and criminal procedure", Kamisar is known as the "father of Miranda" for his influential role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966). Early life Kamisar was born in New York City on August 29, 1929. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father, Samuel (1903-1976), worked as a bakery salesman; his mother, Mollie (Levine) (1909-1985), was a housewife. His twin sister was Bernice Adler née Kamisar (1929-2017). Kamisar was awarded a scholarship to study at New York University, where he was a member of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1950, he was accepted into Columbia Law School, but was forced to put his studies on hiatus to serve in the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He commanded an assault platoon during the war and fought at the famous T-bone Hill, where he was injured and was consequently conferred the Purple Heart. He also received the Combat Infantryman Badge. Kamisar went back to Columbia and graduated in 1954, ranking second in his graduating class. Career Kamisar initially practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He specialized in antitrust law and was mentored by Dean Acheson, who had been Secretary of State under Harry S. Truman. However, he became disenchanted with private practice, and decided to become a law professor. Kamisar taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1957 to 1964 and joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1965. He was the author of many books. He wrote Police Interrogation and Confessions: Essays in Law and Policy (1980), which is the "leading commentary on the procedures of criminal justice" and was described by Francis A. Allen as "one of the great achievements of legal scholarship since the end of the Second World War." Kamisar also co-wrote Criminal Justice in Our Time. He wrote extensively on the U.S. Supreme Court, authoring five annual volumes of The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments, as well as the chapters on criminal procedure for The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't, The Burger Years, and The Warren