Criminal Law Conversations
- ISBN-10
- 0199861277
- ISBN-13
- 9780199861279
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 732
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey, Stephen Garvey
Description
Criminal Law Conversations provides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States. This collection of high caliber scholarly papers was assembled using an innovative and interactive method of nominations and commentary by the nation's top legal scholars. Virtually every leading scholar in the field has participated, resulting in a volume of interest to those both in and outside of the community. Criminal Law Conversations showcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law.
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