Criminal Law: Courses & Curriculum

OPEN ENROLLMENT COURSES

  • Community Prosecution
  • Constitution and Criminal Investigations
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Process
  • Federal Criminal Procedure
  • Juvenile Law
  • Post-Conviction Remedies and Prisoner Rights
  • Restorative Justice
  • Sentencing
  • Terrorism and Federal Law
  • Current Issues in Criminal Law and Procedure (Variable Content)

SEMINARS

  • Corporate Criminal Liability
  • Selected Topics in Criminal Law (Variable Content)
  • Criminal Punishment

WORKSHOPS

  • Prosecutor Workshop (component of the Prosecutor Clinic)
  • Public Defender Workshop (component of the Public Defender Clinic)
  • Trial Advocacy 1
  • Workshop in Criminal Law (Variable Content)

Click here for course descriptions.  Please note that course listings are subject to change and not every course is taught each year.

ASSOCIATED CLINICS, JUDICIAL INTERNSHIPS AND SUPERVISED FIELDWORK PROGRAMS

Clinics

  • Prosecutor Clinic
  • Public Defender Clinic

Judicial Internship – Trial

  • Milwaukee County Circuit Court – Felony Division
  • Milwaukee County Circuit Court – Misdemeanor Division
  • Milwaukee County Circuit Court – Juvenile Division
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • United States Magistrate Judges for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Judicial Internship – Appellate

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • Wisconsin Court of Appeals (Districts I and II)

Supervised Fieldwork Program

  • Centro Legal (Misdemeanor Division)
  • Federal Defender for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office (component of the Prosecutor Clinic)
  • United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin Department of Justice Criminal Appeals Unit
  • Wisconsin State Public Defender Trial Division (component of the Public Defender Clinic)
  • Wisconsin State Public Defender Appellate Division

ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH

  • ALR: Criminal Law
  • ALR: Federal Law
  • ALR: State Law