Tribute to Jerry Israel. (Professor Jerold H. Israel's departure from the University of Michigan Law School) (includes five testimonials)

Michigan Law Review, August, 1996 by Borman, Paul D.; Kamisar, Yale; LaFave, Wayne R.; Lehman, Jeffrey S.; Livingston, Debra Ann

Colleagues, former students and co-authors of casebooks on criminal law and procedure appreciate University of Michigan Law Professor Jerold H. Israel's kindness and his scholarship. Though he is leaving the school to accept a position at the University of Florida, they anticipate that his contributions to criminal law will continue. Professors that have worked with him on a popular criminal law casebook recount the differences of opinion they have had over their 27 years working on the project.

My legal education began with Jerry Israel.

During the fall of 1977, I was assigned to his section of Criminal Law. From the very first day of class, Jerry made it clear to us that the problems of crime and punishment were at once profoundly important and elusively...

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