User talk:Schmeni

Edit Summary Request
I have noted that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! -- Kukini 16:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Your AfC submission
Hello. This is in reply to your following E-mail regarding your AfC submission:


 * My submission on "Yale Kamisar" was my first and I agree that the first 2 submissions were inadequate. I was surprised, however, that the third submission I made, which included 2 citations to his work by the US Supreme Court, were turned away as not being sufficiently notable. Can you please explain this? Thanks

Glad to. First, sorry: I overlooked the SCOTUS citations. Without them, there were not enough reliable independent sources to attest to his notability as "a significant expert in their area by independent sources", as required by the guideline WP:PROF. As we can assume that people cited by the SCOTUS are indeed authorities, I consider his notability proven.

But since you are a registered Wikipedian, you do not need my or anyone else's approval to be bold and create the article yourself. Click on the following link to start editing it: Yale Kamisar. I've recovered your submission and pasted it below for your convenience, with a stylistic correction at the beginning. Feel free to ask me on my talk page if you need any assistance. (It's recommended that you use the talk pages instead of e-mail to contact your fellow contributors. See the welcome message at the top of this page for more basic Wikipedia info.) Cheers, Sandstein 18:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Yale Kamisar is the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Kamisar joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1965. Legal scholar in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure. The United States Supreme Court cited his law review articles, “The Right to Counsel and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Dialogue on 'The Most Pervasive Right' of an Accused” from the University of Chicago Law Review and “The Right to Counsel” from the University of Minnesota Law Review in deciding “Gideon vs. Wainwright,” the 1963 case establishing the right of indigent defendants in some criminal cases to have an attorney appointed to represent them. The Supreme Court also cited Professor Kamisar’s article “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure” in deciding “Miranda vs. Arizona,” the 1966 case creating the “Miranda warnings” that the Court ordered the police read to suspects in criminal cases before questioning. Professor Kamisar also wrote the casebook “Modern Criminal Procedure” with Wayne LaFave and Jerold Israel. Professor Kamisar has written extensively in the area of euthanasia.