Phone: 217-333-4268
Email: wlafave@law.uiuc.edu
B.S., LL.B., S.J.D. University of Wisconsin
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Professor LaFave received his LL.B. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He joined the law faculty in 1961, and thereafter was recognized as a Guggenheim Fellow and as one of the University’s Scholars of Excellence. In 1980 he was named a Professor in the Center for Advanced Study. Professor LaFave served as the first Associate Dean of the College of Law, and in 1974 was the Acting Dean. He has also taught at the law schools of the University of Michigan and Villanova University, and has lectured at several others. Over the years, Professor LaFave has been active in several endeavors seeking improvements in criminal justice administration. He was a member of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the U.S., the ABA Task Force on Technology and Law Enforcement, and the ABA Committee on Criminal Justice in a Free Society, and he was Chairman of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Justice Programs. He has also served as reporter/draftsman for the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and the Standards for Criminal Justice project of the American Bar Association. Professor LaFave has also been involved in several research and educational efforts of national scope, most notably, as a member of the Editorial Board of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, and as consultant and contributing writer for the PBS show Search and Seizure: The Supreme Court and the Police. Still active as an author and scholar, Professor LaFave has published three multi-volume treatises—Search and Seizure (now in its 6-volume 4th edition), Substantive Criminal Law (now in its 3-volume 2nd edition), and Criminal Procedure (with Israel & King; now in its 6-volume 2nd edition)—all updated annually. In addition, he is the author of the Modern Criminal Law casebook (3rd ed.), the Criminal Law hornbook (4th ed.), and the Principles of Criminal Law (1st ed.) concise hornbook. He has also co-authored four procedure casebooks, including Modern Criminal Procedure (11th ed.), as well as the Criminal Procedure hornbook (3rd ed.) and the Principles of Criminal Procedure: Investigation (1st ed.) and Principles of Criminal Procedure: Post-Investigation (1st ed.) concise hornbooks. Professor LaFave has also written extensively for the law reviews in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure, especially on the subject of arrest, search and seizure. Collectively, these books and articles have been quoted or cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in over 120 cases, and in well over 10,000 reported opinions in all. His work has also been cited in over 5,000 law review articles to date.
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