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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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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Law & Forensic Science
Course Page for Spring 2023 ZPO - Findley, Keith
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Sentencing & Corrections
Course Page for Fall 2022 - Klingele, Cecelia