LAW 7699 — Efforts in Criminal Law Minimalism
3 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: ThBostonTraditional
Examines recent efforts in criminal legal reform including legislative reform, judicial challenges, community organization, and public media campaigns. Introduces modern abolitionist critiques of policing and mass incarceration and some responses. Presents several reforms to change the U.S. criminal legal system including efforts to remove police from particular settings, reforms to pretrial detention, changing the system of public defense, changing the jury selection process/Batson reform, eliminating felony murder, and addressing draconian criminal sentencing.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 16 | 16 | 100% | 0.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
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Common patterns: R (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Aliza Hochman Bloom (100% of students) · reviews
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