Criminal Law Concentration

I. Foundation Courses that provide a breadth of exposure to criminal law topics. The concentration requires that students take all three of the following courses:

- Introduction to Substantive Criminal Law
- Introduction to Criminal Procedure
- Evidence

II. Advanced Courses provide for intensive learning experiences about substantive areas of criminal law, the processes of lawyering and exploration of lawyers’ professional responsibility to clients. Students must take a minimum of 15 credits in this category distributed among at least two courses, one of which must be experiential, such as clinical courses. Experiential courses are designated below with asterisks.

- Criminal Appeals Project*
- Community Supervision Legal Assistance Project (CSLAP)*
- Prosecution/Policing Project*
- Defender Project*
- Legal Assistance Project (LAIP)*
- Innocence Project*
- Federal Post-conviction Project (Oxford)*
- Clinical Semester: Federal Postconviction Project*
- Restorative Justice [must be taken in conjunction with the Family Law
Project]*
- Sentencing and Corrections Seminar
- Role of Police in a Free Society
- Selected Problems in Policing
- Selected Problems Con. Law: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment
- Litigation in Criminal Cases
- Juvenile Justice Administration
- Selected Problems in Substantive Criminal Law
- Selected Problems in Criminal Procedure
- Selected Problems in Criminal Justice Administration
- Advanced Substantive Criminal Law
- Advanced Criminal Procedure

Student earning a 3.5 cumulative average in courses fulfilling Criminal Law Concentration requirements will receive Honors in the Concentration. (Note: the Concentration Honors level for December 2008 and May 2009 graduates will be 3.3.)