Courses

Law 459: Advanced Sentencing Seminar Law
Credits: 2

Prerequisite(s): Law 210

This seminar will address the theoretical rationales for sentencing in criminal cases. The students will be expected to prepare a paper addressing the goals of sentencing, various proposals for sentencing reform currently pending in either the state legislature or Congress, what the ramifications of these proposals are, and how they might fit into the goals society has and disadvantages of aggregative procedures such as consolidation and the class action, the special issues of causation in the mass tort context, particularly where latent injury is involved, the ethical issues involved in the mass tort case, and the advantages and disadvantages of various resolutions of the mass tort case. This course will require a paper; there are no prerequisites.