Categories: Criminal Law

Instructor(s)

Klingele, Cecelia

Course Data

Room 5223
MW 1:10pm-3:30pm

Course Description

This course addresses the purposes and limits of the criminal law; the challenges of drafting and interpreting criminal legislation; and the key doctrines and principles applicable to criminal law.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Describe the basic legal standards that govern decision-making by prosecutors, judges, and juries in criminal cases.
• Identify the basic elements of a criminal statute.
• Apply statutes to new fact situations.
• Understand the primary Constitutional limits on the legislature’s ability to draft criminal statutes.
• Understand the ways in which criminal law has changed over time in response to changing public norms and institutional structures.
• Understand the operation of included offense statutes, and their effect on charging decisions and jury instructions.

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