Categories: Criminal Law

Criminal Injustice in America

Course Page for Spring 2023 ZPO - Meyn, Ion

Examine structural injustices that drive criminal system outcomes. Consider how the legal system is a critical site for maintaining a racially discriminatory order. Explore the criminal system’s racially disproportionate impact at all intercept points (surveillance, arrest, charging, pretrial detention, and sentencing). Question how criminal due process rights and civil law doctrine has been used to legitimize and reinforce the exercise of state power.

Pass-fail only grading; 20-page paper will be due at the end of the term; meets Upper-level Writing requirement. Criminal Procedure (Law 925) required.

Federal Criminal Appeals

Course Page for Spring 2023 ZPO - Stevenson, Adam

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Spring 2023 ZPO
Spring 2022
Spring 2021

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

Course Page for Fall 2022 - Wright, Steven

This seminar, which satisfies the upper-level writing requirement, will introduce students to the basics of federal criminal sentences. The Course will focus on the mechanics of federal sentencing, with an emphasis on the statutory factors that judges must consider when determining a prison sentence. This seminar, which meets once a week, is ideal for students seeking careers as federal judicial clerks, federal prosecutors, federal public defenders, immigration lawyers.

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Fall 2022

Law & Forensic Science

Course Page for Spring 2023 ZPO - Findley, Keith

Recent Offerings of this course by this instructor

Spring 2023 ZPO

Sentencing & Corrections

Course Page for Fall 2022 - Klingele, Cecelia

Recent Offerings of this course by this instructor

Fall 2022
Fall 2021