Law 792:  Public Corruption

This seminar examines timely issues in the investigation, prosecution, and defense of federal public corruption offenses. The seminar will challenge students to reason through statutory, doctrinal, and policy issues in practical, frequently encountered scenarios from both prosecutorial and defense perspectives, including parallel civil and criminal investigations, grand jury practice and defense investigations, attorney client privilege and joint defense agreements, and plea bargaining and sentencing issues.  This is a pass/fail course.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Law 684, Federal Courts is a pre- or co-requisite course.  You must have taken or be taking Federal Courts.

Evaluation: Written assignments and participation