Criminal Justice Workshop: Seminar
Fall/Spring term, Block I
T 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Carol Steiker and Assistant Professor Adriaan Lanni
2 classroom credits LAW-92015A Fall/Spring
(1 credit fall + 1 credit spring)
This seminar is geared toward students interested in reading and writing legal scholarship on issues related to criminal justice and will be especially useful to students interested in pursuing careers in legal academia in the broad field(s) of criminal justice. The seminar will meet for 2 hours every other week during both the fall and the spring semesters. During the fall semester, criminal justice scholars of varying methodologies will be invited by the professors to present their work to the seminar for discussion (and other members of the community will be invited to attend, as well). During the spring semester, students will present their own work to the (closed) seminar for discussion. Students will be expected to write short weekly response papers and to prepare a research paper of 20-25 pages to present to the seminar. Students who wish to write their third-year papers in conjunction with the seminar may prepare a longer research paper (40-60 pages) instead of the 20-25 page paper and receive an additional credit. There is no exam for this course. Enrollment limited to 12.
Student should send a statement of interest approximately one page in length describing their background and interest in both criminal justice issues and legal scholarship/legal academia. Applications are due on May 1 and should be sent to Kristin Flower at kflower@law.harvard.edu. Students will be informed about their admission to the course (or not) over the summer (as the Registrar's Office will do regarding admission to other electives). IMPORTANT CHANGES in credits and enrollment options. (1) Students who enroll in this seminar by application will receive 3 (rather than 2) credits for the course: 2 credits for attending the workshops and writing the short response papers for each session, and an additional credit for the 20-25 page research paper that will be presented in the spring. Students who write their third-year papers in conjunction with the seminar will get a further additional credit (for a total of 4); their research papers should be in the 40-60 page range. If you would like to enroll in this seminar but did not apply in the spring, you may still apply over the summer by sending, by August 1, a 1-page statement of interest to Professor Steiker's assistant, Kristin Flower at kflower@law.harvard.edu (There is still one 3 or 4-credit space available in this seminar.) (2) IN ADDITION, there is a NEW 2-credit enrollment option for this course for those who would like to attend the workshops (faculty and student papers presented every other week throughout the year) but not write their own research paper. Twelve additional places are being held for these "discussion only" enrollees; these students will be required to write short response papers for each session and to participate in seminar discussions, but NOT to write a research paper. No application is necessary for these 2-credit "discussion only" spots; they will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.