Criminal Law Case Studies (American Casebook Series)
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Book Description
Robinson's Criminal Law Case Studies provides the entire story behind each case, including the facts leading up to the offense, photographs, and background information about the parties. This approach entices analytical thinking about how the law should deal with each case and reveals what actually happened to the defendants and why.
About the Author
Paul H. Robinson is the Edna & Ednyfed Williams Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He teaches courses on criminal law, advanced criminal law, criminal law theory, sentencing, and American criminal codes.
He earned a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was comment editor of the UCLA Law Review, an LL.M. from Harvard University, and a Diploma in Legal Studies from the Cambridge University Law Faculty in Cambridge, England, where he served as a Harvard University Knox Traveling Fellow. From 1977 to 1992 he was a member of the faculty at Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. In 1985 he was appointed Distinguished Professor and, in 1989, Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year for Rutgers. In 1989-90 he served as acting dean of the Law School. During 1998-99, he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Professor Robinson's non-academic work includes service as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Legislation and Special Projects Section, then Special Assistant United States Attorney and federal prosecutor in Alexandria, Virginia. He served as counsel for the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in 1977. In 1985 he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as one of the original Commissioners of the United States Sentencing Commission, where he served until 1988.
Robinson is the author of several books, including Criminal Law Case Studies (West Group 2000); Would You Convict? Seventeen Cases that Challenged the Law (NYU 1999); Structure and Function in Criminal Law (Oxford 1997); Criminal Law (Little Brown/Aspen 1997); Justice, Liability, and Blame: Community Views and the Criminal Law (with John Darley) (Westview 1995); Fundamentals of Criminal Law (Little, Brown, 2nd ed. 1995); and Criminal Law Defenses (West Group 1984), a two-volume treatise for lawyers. He also has authored scholarly articles for the California, University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern, Texas, Stanford, UCLA, and Virginia Law Reviews, the Yale Law Journal, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Professor Robinson is a member of several Advisory Committees, including those for the criminal law journal Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, the American Psychological Association journal Psychology, Public Policy,and Law, and the Buffalo Criminal Law Review. He also has served as Faculty Advisor to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. He has lectured widely, nationally and internationally, including scholarly presentations in Moscow, Freiburg (Germany), London, Christchurch (New Zealand), Edinburgh, Vancouver, Helsinki, Birmingham, Uppsala (Sweden), Siracusa, Tel Aviv, Minsk, and Cambridge. He has served as a visiting professor at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) in Tokyo, Japan, at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and will hold the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University in 2000-2001.
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