Salmon P. Chase College of Law Professor Michael Mannheimer has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the leading organization in the United States producing scholarly works to help judges, lawyers and legislators in their thinking on clarifying, modernizing and improving the law.
Professor Mannheimer is the author of more than two dozen law review articles, numerous scholarly papers and commentaries, and the author of The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing, a forthcoming book published by the University of Michigan Press on how the amendment to the United States Constitution could be applied in a reimagined approach to local policing.
His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as the Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, and Iowa Law Review. His work has been cited by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, federal district courts in Massachusetts, Vermont and West Virginia, and the high courts of Connecticut, Montana and Vermont. His work on the use of the premeditation-deliberation formula to distinguish first- and second-degree murder was the winner of the 2010 Association of American Law Schools Criminal Justice Section Junior Scholar Paper Award.
At Chase, he has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Death Penalty, Evidence and Sentencing. He is the Chase coordinator of the Kentucky Innocence Project.
Prior to joining the Chase faculty in 2004 he was appellate counsel and senior appellate counsel at the Center for Appellate Litigation in New York City, where he represented indigent criminal defendants in appeals from convictions and in related collateral proceedings. He previously was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. He holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School,
Other elected members of the American Law Institute at Chase are Dean Judith Daar and Associate Dean Lawrence Rosenthal.
