The Teaching Files series (7.6 linear feet), covers 1959 to 2000 and includes assignments, cases, clippings, examinations and answers, notes, and occasional syllabi from Kamisar's classes in Constitutional Criminal Procedure (taught at Harvard University's Law School, 1964-1965), Constitutional Law (1971-1992), Criminal Justice (1977-1998), Criminal Law (taught at both the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan Law Schools, 1959-1997), and undated notes and cases for Criminal Proceedings.
The largest subseries in the Teaching Files series is Criminal Law (6.7 linear feet). The Topical Teaching File is an alphabetical list of pertinent topics used in his teaching. These include Assisted Suicide, in particular folders on Jack Kevorkian and a 1993-1994 report from the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying; the Death Penalty, which contains the undated "Case of the Speluncian Explorers;" Euthanasia, with several folders on Jack Kevorkian and Karen Ann Quinlan, a 1997 transcript of the conference Socially-Assisted Dying: Media, Money & Meaning; and Mercy-Killing Legislation. Researchers will also find multiple folders on Evidence, the Exclusionary Rule, Felony Murder, Insanity Miranda v. Arizona, Necessity, and the Race Riots of 1967 in Detroit and Newark, New Jersey.
Also included in this series are two VHS videocassettes. The first is Kamisar's Criminal Law Miranda v. Arizona lecture. The second is his last Criminal Law lecture given at the University of Michigan Law School, in December 2003.
