Summer IV 2025
Professor(s):
Sandra Thompson (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: 1st Year - Part-Time
Time: 6:00p-8:45p MTW Location:
Course Outline: This substantive criminal law course aims to provide you with four basic competencies to equip you to practice criminal law, and these skills will serve you well as lawyers in whatever field you may choose. First, the course will familiarize you with blackletter criminal law. A second area of competency this course will provide is the skill of statutory analysis. Third, this course will prepare you to address the most fundamental ethical and philosophical issues regarding the punishment of human beings for wrongdoing. A fourth thing this course will do is to introduce you to some of the practice skills you will need to handle criminal law cases as a lawyer.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous – On Campus Exams) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, it will be conducted in a classroom in face-to-face mode requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 8/5/2025 6-9Pm 309
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Course Materials: DRESSLER AND STEPHEN P. GARVEY, CASES AND MATERIALS ON CRIMINAL LAW (9th edition); ISBN: 9781647087708
Additional materials will be posted on Canvas.
