The Changing Market for Criminal Law Casebooks

19 Pages Posted: 9 Apr 2016 Last revised: 11 May 2016

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Jens David Ohlin

Cornell University - School of Law

Date Written: April 7, 2016

Abstract

In the following Review, I analyze the leading criminal law casebooks on the market and describe the ways in which they do — and do not — respond to the needs of criminal law teachers. At least part of the issue is the changing nature of law teaching — what actually happens in the classroom has changed in the last three decades. Moreover, there may be less uniformity in classroom practice than in the past; in other words, what works in one law school might not work in another, due in part to the changing profile of law students, as well as the great diversity of intellectual perspectives that law teachers bring to the lectern. I then lay out a vision for a new casebook in criminal law that responds to some of these desiderata with a fresh yet flexible approach.

Keywords: criminal law, casebooks, law school pedagogy, criminal law theory, strategy, rape

Suggested Citation

Ohlin, Jens David, The Changing Market for Criminal Law Casebooks (April 7, 2016). Michigan Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 6, 2016, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-13, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2760678

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