Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

I am delighted to be here today.

I am delighted to be at The Ohio State University, which has not only built a truly extraordinary criminal law and procedure faculty, including Professor Joshua Dressler, Alan Michaels, Sharon Davies, and Douglas Berman, but has also accumulated a large number of alumni of my home institution, Columbia Law School, including my former students, Professor Edward Foley and the aforesaid Professors Davies and Michaels, as well as Professor Deborah Jones Merritt, who is quite literally a daughter of Columbia, where her father is a distinguished emeritus member of the faculty, my esteemed senior colleague and my own teacher.

And I am delighted to be here sharing a dais with some of the most distinguished senior figures in criminal procedure, starting with the great Yale Kamisar, who largely invented the field of constitutional criminal procedure and has been characterized as the father of the Miranda decision we are here to discuss, and including Ronald Allen, one of the most distinguished critics of that decision, and George Thomas, who knows as much about the empirical and philosophical bases of Miranda as anyone in my generation.

So it is a deep pleasure to be here.

But it is also somewhat intimidating. What can I say about Miranda in the presence of such a distinguished group of people, many of whom have studied this subject far more deeply than I? My main teaching and scholarly activities have concerned substantive criminal law and the courtroom aspects of criminal procedure, as opposed to questions of police investigation.

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law

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