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:
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 Project*
- Sentencing and Corrections Seminar
- L&CP: Defense Function
- L&CP: Prosecution Function
- 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.
Questions with respect to the above Concentration requirements should be sent to Professor Walter Dickey at wjdickey@wisc.edu .
