Criminal Law 2

Harvard HLS

Exam Type: In Class This course considers the role criminal law and legal actors have played in constructing the modern American penal system. We begin by exploring common rationales offered to justify the state’s power to punish, the premises required to render such rationales legitimate, and arguments that this power is not legitimate in the United States today. We then explore core doctrinal principles of the criminal law through the lens of three sets of crimes relating to…