Criminal Law Seminar: Contemporary Issues

724C

Credits:
2
Instructor(s):

This seminar builds on the first-year Criminal Law course to examine a group of contemporary issues:

  • domestic violence against both women and men;
  • prosecutorial discretion and the abuse to which that sometimes leads;
  • juvenile offenders, juvenile court, and constitutional limits on juvenile sentencing; and,
  • the history of, and proposals to abolish the death penalty.

Guest speakers will be featured.