Yale Kamisar, a legal scholar whose work on civil liberties and criminal procedure had a profound influence on landmark Supreme Court decisions, died on Jan. 30 at his home in Ann Arbor MI. He was 92.

Professor Kamisar began to wrestle with the issues of criminal procedure in the late 1950s. Within a decade, he had established himself as the leading figure in an area of the law that, thanks in large part to his work, seemed not just important but intellectually vibrant.

His work was first cited by the Supreme Court in its 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to legal counsel in criminal cases. It was the first of more than 30 decisions over the next half century to cite Professor Kamisar’s work.

His greatest impact on the court came in 1966 in its decision in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal defendants had to be informed of their rights before being questioned, especially their rights to remain silent and to legal counsel. That year, Time magazine called him “…the most overpowering criminal-law scholar in the U.S.” Others called him the “Father of Miranda.”