Criminal Law 2
Fall term, Block E
M,T 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz
4 classroom credits LAW-12100A
This course will introduce students to the criminal process. It will begin by looking at one case in detail, from the first news reports of a killing through the trial and the appeal. It will then move to a brief survey of the rights of criminal defendants under the Constitution. The majority of the course will be devoted to the general part of the criminal law: act, intention, result. It will then focus on several crimes in particular: murder, rape, attempt and conspiracy. Its goal is to introduce students to the general principles underlying our criminal justice system and to prepare them to participate in that system as prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, legislators and informed citizens.