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  • WHITE COLLAR CRIME (CRIMINAL LAW - 1000)

    2 credits

    This course studies a range of federal statutes that define individual and corporate crimes involving fraudulent schemes, business crimes and public corruption. Specific statutes to be considered include those defining mail and wire fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations, and computer-related crimes. The course also will consider legal and investigative issues that relate to evidence gathering by prosecutors, grand juries and administrative bodies. Grades are based upon a final examination.

    Prerequisite: CRIMINAL LAW
    Eric Corngold
    Jonathan S Sack

  • WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS (CRIMINAL LAW - 2020)

    3 credits

    The course is designed to study: (1) the history of wrongful convictions; (2) the causes of wrongful convictions; (3) what legal and scientific mechanisms are used to uncover and expose wrongful convictions; (4) the potential remedies for minimizing, as much as humanly possible, future wrongful convictions, but at the same time not minimizing the likelihood of accurate convictions; (5) how States compensate the wrongly convicted; and (6) how different countries expose, learn from, and deal with wrongful convictions. Grades will be based upon a final examination. Criminal Procedure I and II are recommended but not required. .

    Craig M. Cooley