ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan law experts are available to discuss several U.S. Supreme Court cases. They include:

Salinas v. Texas: The future of Miranda?

Yale Kamisar, the Clarence Darrow Professor of Law Emeritus at Michigan Law and a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure, can discuss Salinas v. Texas, a case involving defendants’ refusal to answer police questions before they’ve been arrested or Mirandized. Some of Kamisar’s scholarly work was cited in the original Miranda v. Arizona decision. He is available at (734) 647-4038.

“Very few people are emphatic or confident or even clear-headed when they are being questioned by police interrogators,” Kamisar said. “They should not have to expressly and unequivocally assert their right to silence in order to benefit from that right. Instead, the police should be required to ask them whether they are asserting their right to remain silent.”

Affirmative action, same-sex marriage cases

Richard Primus is an expert in the law, history, and theory of the U.S. Constitution and a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He’s available to discuss the opinions in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, as well as the same-sex marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry and U.S. v. Windsor. He can be reached at (734) 647-5543.

Shelby County v. Holder: Voting Rights Act

Ellen Katz, the Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, is an expert in election law, civil rights and remedies, and equal protection, and clerked for Supreme Court Justice David Souter. She coauthored the final report of the Voting Rights Initiative at U-M Law School, an influential empirical study of litigation under the Voting Rights Act, as well as authoring articles on Shelby County v. Holder, which concerns reauthorizing Section 5 of the VRA. She’s available to discuss that case when the opinions are released. She is available at (734) 647-6241.