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Quinn Yeargain

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1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy and Associate Professor of Law

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418 Law College Building

(517) 432-6942

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Constitutional LawCriminal Law and Procedure

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Quinn Yeargain is the 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy and an Associate Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional and criminal law. Professor Yeargain is a nationally recognized expert on state constitutional law. He is a co-author of State Constitutional Law: Institutions, Powers, and Rights and the 10th edition of State and Local Government in a Federal System, and one of the founders of the AALS Section on State Constit

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