Modern Criminal Law: Cases, Comments And Questions

This law school casebook is intended for use in a basic course on the substantive criminal law. The major emphasis in this casebook is upon what is usually referred to as the "general part" of the criminal law, mental state and act, responsibility, justification and excuse, inchoate crimes and liability for the conduct of another. There is also special emphasis upon the actual and potential contributions of the legislative branch in resolving the difficult policy questions that exist in this field.

B.S., L.L.B. & S.J.D. (1965) University of Wisconsin, Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor in the Center for Advanced Study, on faculty of University of Illinois since 1961. Member of Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Has served as Chairman of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Justice Programs, and as Reporter for the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, for the Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and for the Standards from Criminal Justice Project of the ABA. He has written extensively on criminal law and criminal procedure especially on the subjects of arrest, search & seizure. Author of "Search & Seizure" a three volume West Publication and Treatise on the Fourth Amendment. Authored and co-authored West publications consisting of two case-books and a hornbook on substantive criminal law and two casebooks, a hornbook and a practitioner's treatise on criminal procedure.