FOR 6110 - Criminal Law

(3 units)

Examines the definitions and necessary elements of crime, principles inherent in legal decision making, such as questions of fact versus questions of law, the requirements of actus reus and mens rea and general doctrines such as ignorance of fact and ignorance of law, causation, attempt, complicity and conspiracy. Affirmative defenses and principles of justification and excuse are examined with particular attention to the doctrines of necessity, intoxication, insanity, diminished capacity and automatism.