Areas of Study
Criminal Law
After hundreds of years of precedent, why does the law surrounding the death penalty continue to produce significant and monumental legal decisions?
"Because the application of the death penalty in modern America always raises new issues big and small, philosophical and practical, state and federal courts will always be confronting and resolving significant and consequential legal questions. Just this past term, for example, new medical evidence and new stories of botched executions required the U.S. Supreme Court justices to consider the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols, and new legislative developments in the states required the justices to consider the constitutionality of child rape as a death-eligible crime. And though capital punishment laws and practices impact only a tiny portion of our massive criminal justice system, the symbolic and emotional significance of the death penalty all but ensures that evolving attitudes and new insights will keep this area of the law in the news and in the courts."
Douglas A. Berman
William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law
Faculty
Moritz faculty members who teach criminal law-related courses include:
Michelle Alexander
Associate Professor of Law
Douglas A. Berman
William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law
Sharon L. Davies
John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Designated Professor of Law
Joshua Dressler
Frank R. Strong Chair in Law
Katherine Hunt Federle
Professor of Law; Director of Justice for Children Project; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law & Policy Studies
Robert Martin Krivoshey
Clinical Professor of Law
Angela Marie Lloyd
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Alan C. Michaels
Dean and Edwin M. Cooperman Professor of Law
John B. Quigley
President's Club Professor of Law
Ric Simmons
Associate Professor of Law


