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13 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 469 (2015-2016)
Criminal Procedure: It Wasn't Always So

handle is hein.journals/osjcl13 and id is 481 raw text is: Criminal Procedure: It Wasn't Always So Ellen S. Podgor* It is hard to imagine a law school curriculum without a course in criminal procedure. Today, law schools struggle to decide whether criminal procedure should be taught in the first year or upper level curriculum; whether it should be combined with the study of substantive criminal law; whether it should be limited to one course or have spinoff courses to cover specific areas such as habeas corpus or computer crimes; and whether an appropriate number of credit hours have been awarded for this subject matter. Yet, despite these discussions, criminal procedure is firmly entrenched in the law school curriculum. But it was not always this way. Perhaps equally incomprehensible is a world where there is a dearth of criminal procedure casebooks. With few prominent Supreme Court opinions and no law school classes covering this subject, there was no need for course materials fifty years ago. Today it is a given that there are criminal procedure courses in law schools and an ever-expanding list of casebooks and study guides, with one of the original casebooks authored by Professor Yale Kamisar now in its fourteenth edition with six co-authors.1 And there are also many annual supplements to provide students with new cases and materials of that year's Supreme Court decisions. Although the past had few materials, the concerns of today are more focused on whether the criminal procedure books should be one or two volumes, whether habeas corpus materials needs a separate book, and the appropriate balance between state and federal materials. This backdrop provided the creation of the panel titled Teaching Criminal Procedure: Fifty Years of Experience, a panel held at the 2015 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference. Although others participated as a part of this panel,2 the keynote speakers were Professors Yale Kamisar and Jerold Israel. The two essays that follow capture the essence of the presentations by these two professors. Gary R. Trombley Family White Collar Crime Research Professor and Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. I YALE KAMIsAR, WAYNE R. LAFAVE, JEROLD H. ISRAEL, NANCY J. KING, ORIN S. KERR & EVE BRENSIKE PRIMUS, MODERN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS (14th ed. 2015). 2 The panel was moderated by Professor Stephen Singer of Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to Professors Kamisar and Israel, the panelists were Professors Steven Friedland of Elon University School of Law, Jancy Hoeffel of Tulane University Law School, and myself 469

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