Adv. Criminal Law

This course is designed to provide an in depth analytical understanding of substantive criminal law, covering both jurisprudential issues in the area of criminal responsibility, and also policy issues in the context of a changing criminal law. Beginning with a basic reworking of the concepts mens rea, actus reus, and causation, we will move through the defenses, and spend the second half of the course in such topical issues as death penalty, the legal control of drunken driving, property crime and rape.