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Criminal Law
Class Term:
Fall Term 2019-2020
Catalog Number:
5046
Class Number:
13486
Class Schedule:
Monday, Wednesday
9:00 am
10:15 am
Room:
LAW 111
Professor
Lecture
Credits:
3 (3 Contact, 0 Field)
Priority:
General Enrollment Course
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
First-Year Courses - Enrollment is limited to first-year students
Description
Traditional and contemporary doctrines of substantive criminal law are analyzed, with focus on such issues as: theories of punishment, the formal elements of criminal culpability, the theory and degrees of homicide, criminal causation, inchoate crimes, accessorial and vicarious liability, conspiracy, and defenses of excuse and justification.