Criminal Law | Stanford Law School (2024)

More than at any other time in recent memory, lawmakers, the media, and the public are focused on the fairness and effectiveness of our criminal justice system. With more than two million people incarcerated in our prisons and jails, and millions more under community supervision, questions increasingly arise about policing practices, the discretion held by prosecutors and judges, and the length of sentences meted out for particular offenses. Understanding our criminal justice system is critical for any aspiring lawyer, and especially for those contemplating careers in prosecution, criminal defense, or criminal justice policy. Stanford Law School offers unparalleled opportunities to take classes with and to work alongside internationally recognized experts in policing, sentencing, corrections, prisoner reentry, jury decision making, plea bargaining, drug policy, and virtually every other area of controversy in criminal justice. Full-time clinics allow students to gain hands-on experience prosecuting and defending criminal cases. Policy labs involve students in cutting-edge research with the potential to redirect public debate and change practices on the ground. Pro bono opportunities — like Project ReMADE and Street Law — and our Three Strikes Project allow our students to work with renowned practitioners to make the criminal justice system more humane, one client at a time. No law school anywhere better equips its students to work within or to help reform criminal justice, in the United States and around the world.

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Organizations and Projects

Stanford Criminal Justice Centerserves as a research and policy institute on issues related to the criminal justice system.learn more
Stanford Justice Advocacy Project(formerly the Three Strikes Project) represents individuals serving unjust prison sentences for minor crimes and advocates for fairer and more effective criminal justice policies in California and across the country. learn more

Student Journal, Organizations, and Pro Bono Projects

Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition (SPARC)is an organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for incarcerated individuals and their familiessee student org
Criminal Law Society strives to promote criminal law dialogue, practice, policy, and scholarship at SLSsee student org
Street Lawteaches classes about the law, focusing on criminal procedure and a juvenile's legal rights, to incarcerated and at-risk youthsee student org

Clinics

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Practical Training

Because Stanford views the law as a practical force, the clinics make a special effort to offer students learning opportunities that take them out of the classroom and into the courtroom.

Publications

Homicide Deaths Among Adult Cohabitants of Handgun Owners in California, 2004 to 2016

Annals of Internal Medicine

Author(s): David M. Studdert, Yifan Zhang, Erin E. Holsinger, Lea Prince, Alexander F. Holsinger, Jonathan A. Rodden, Garen J. Wintemute, Matthew Miller

California Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem

Sacramento Bee

Author(s): David M. Studdert

Courses

Homicide Law and Gender Based ViolenceInstructor(s):David Alan Sklansky,Rachel SnyderView Course
Police and Prisons: German and American Approaches to Reform and AbolitionView Course
Policy Practicum: Regilla Project: Women Convicted of Intimate Partner Violence-Related HomicidesInstructor(s):Debbie Mukamal,David Alan SklanskyView Course
Public Law WorkshopInstructor(s):Gregory Ablavsky,Evelyn Douek,Bernadette MeylerView Course
Political Violence and the LawView Course
Discussion (1L): How Does Criminal Law "Know" the Truth?View Course
Policy Practicum: Moving Forward from DobbsView Course
Law and Disorder: Advanced Criminal LawInstructor(s):Emily Galvin-Almanza,David MillsView Course
Comparative Evidence LawView Course
Criminal Justice and the Crisis of American DemocracyView Course
Discussion (1L): Asian Americans Justice StrugglesView Course
Policy Practicum: Selective De-Policing: Operationalizing Concrete ReformsView Course
Policy Practicum: COVID-19 and the Effect of Video Technology on Indigent Defense ServicesView Course
Policy Practicum: Creating a National Census of Women Imprisoned for Murdering their AbusersView Course
Discussion (1L): Why is the USA Exceptional — In Crime and Punishment?View Course
Discussion (1L): Abolish or Reform? Prisons, Police, and the Death PenaltyView Course
American Criminal Justice and Its DiscontentsView Course
Policy Practicum: California Penal Code Revision Committee ProjectView Course
Policy Practicum: Tools for Reentry: Practices, Apps, and ServicesView Course
Policy Practicum: Assessing Alternative Approaches to Hate CrimesView Course
Discussion (1L): The Central Park Five CaseView Course
Discussion (1L): Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys as Agents of ChangeView Course
Discussion (1L): Criminal Legal HistoriesView Course
United States v. Milken: A Case StudyView Course
Policy Practicum: Expanding Access to the Legal Bar for the Formerly IncarceratedView Course
Violence and the LawView Course
Advanced Criminal LawView Course
Policy Practicum: Policing and TechnologyView Course
Policy Practicum: Decarcerating PrisonsView Course
Race, Identity, and National SecurityView Course
Constitutional TheoryView Course
Criminal Procedure: InvestigationView Course
Policy Practicum: Improving Investigations of Police ShootingsView Course
Policy Practicum: Veterans Treatment CourtsView Course
Policy Practicum: Rethinking Penal Code Enhancements in CaliforniaView Course
TGR: DissertationInstructor(s):Gregory Ablavsky,John J. Donohue III,David Freeman Engstrom,Deborah Hensler,Colleen Honigsberg,Amalia D. Kessler,Michael Klausner,Mark A. Lemley,Curtis J. Milhaupt,Julian Nyarko,Shirin Sinnar,Alan O. Sykes,Barton Thompson,Diego A. ZambranoView Course

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