Advanced Criminal Law

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This course will continue where basic criminal law left off. We will examine accomplice, conspiracy, and corporate criminal liability. The next part of the course will deal with sentencing, including the current constitutional controversy over the validity of determinate sentencing schemes such as the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Finally, we will do some reading in the theory of punishment, including works by Kant, Bentham, H.L.A. Hart, and Antony Duff.