Professor

Sam

Kamin

Sam Kamin joined the faculty at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in 1999 and has received numerous teaching awards at both the departmental and university level. Holding both a J.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a BA, summa cum laude, from Amherst College, Professor Kamin is an expert in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, death penalty jurisprudence, federal courts, and constitutional remedies. He is a co-author of West Academic Publishing’s Investigative Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Approach and Cases and Materials on the Death Penalty and has published scholarly articles in the Virginia Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, the Journal of Constitutional Law, and many others. He has also become one of the nation’s leading experts on the regulation of marijuana; in 2012 he was appointed to then-Governor John Hickenlooper’s Task Force to Implement Amendment 64 and served on the blue-ribbon panel to study marijuana legalization chaired by then-Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom of California. Professor Kamin currently serves as on the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards Committee, which he chaired from 2021 to 2024.