The Federalist Society debate, an annual event at Wayne State University's Law School, is scheduled for noon Friday, April 7, in room 101.

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman will debate the Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436 (1966) case with Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan.

Markman, who will argue against Miranda, is a long-time member of the Federalist Society, author of a number of U.S. Senate reports in a variety of areas and numerous law review articles. He is a former contributing editor to the National Review and currently is writing a volume on Michigan Civil Appeals to be published by West Publishing Co.

Markman, a professor of constitutional law at Hillsdale College, also is a Fellow with the Michigan State Bar Foundation; a member of the Save Our Streets Coalition; the Alliance for Safe Streets in Detroit; the Southwest Detroit Anti-Gang Coalition; and the Federalist Society. He co-authored Miranda's Hidden Costs for the National Review.

Kamisar, who will argue for Miranda, is a nationally known legal expert and currently the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has written extensively on criminal law, the administration of criminal justice, and the "politics of crime."

Kamisar is the author of Police Interrogation and Confessions: Essays in Law and Policy and co-author of Criminal Justice in Our Time and The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments (five annual volumes).

He wrote the chapter on constitutional criminal procedure for The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't, The Burger Years, andThe Warren Court: A Retrospective.

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Kamisar is also co-author of two widely used casebooks: Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments & Questions, (all nine editions), and Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments & Questions, (all eight editions).

The Federalist Society was formed in 1982 by four law students: David

McIntosh, Lee Liberman, Steve Calabresi and Spencer Abraham at three top law schools, Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago.

Their mission was to reorder priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. The society's principal target is federal regulation adopted during and since the New Deal.

For more information call the law school office at (313) 577-3933.