Meeting with Stan State pre-law students and CSU Trustee Jane Carney

Meeting with Stan State pre-law students and CSU Trustee Jane Carney

TEACHING

My teaching revolves around issues related to practical ethics; in particular, it aims at understanding how law––and criminal law in particular––operates as a concrete social practice through the police, courts, and the criminal justice system overall. Law, in this sense, is applied ethics: it is the tool that translates social values into generally applicable norms of behavior. In my courses, students are asked to explore the foundations of law in normative and applied ethics, social and political philosophy, and jurisprudence.

Courses

  • Critical Examination of Criminal Law (Graduate Seminar)

  • Criminal Justice and the Media

  • Jury Selection and Decision Making

  • Moral and Political Philosophy

  • Criminal Procedure

  • Moot Court

  • Court Observer Program

  • Criminal Justice

  • Theory of Crime and Punishment (Graduate Seminar)

  • Jurisprudence, Law, and Society

  • Constitutional Law in Criminal Justice (Graduate Seminar)

  • Legal Research and Writing I & II

  • Philosophy of Law

  • Ethics

  • Success Strategies in Criminal Justice

  • Introduction to Philosophy

  • Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty

  • Criminal Judicial Process

  • Philosophy of Crime and Punishment

  • Class Action Litigation

  • Law and Justice

  • Methods of Reasoning

  • Logic

  • Descartes, Hume, and Kant

  • Environmental Ethics

  • Comparative Religion