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Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition

Authors
  • John Kaplan
  • Robert Weisberg
  • Guyora Binder
  • Aya Gruber
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Criminal Law: Cases and Materials has long been respected for its distinguished authorship. The late John Kaplan’s extraordinary work continues with the scholarship of Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, and now  in this Tenth Edition of criminal law and feminist scholar Aya Gruber. This casebook’s renowned interdisciplinary approach fuels class discussion as it enriches study. Logically organized, the text addresses the purposes and limits of punishment and considers the meaning and types of crime. Well-edited cases, interesting materials, and clear notes combine with cutting-edge issues and important social questions, such as whom and why we punish. Especially strong are the sections addressing the phenomenon of mass incarceration (including the movement towards prison abolition), the theme of and challenges to racial justice in our criminal law system, and the evolution of our laws on sexual assault. 

New to the 10th Edition:

• On the voluntary act requirement, full treatment of the dramatic new Grant’s Pass v. Johnson case addressing the constitutionality of laws, imposing criminal liability on homeless encampments, and the new limited reading of the Eighth Amendment under Robinson, v. California.
• On the Guilty Mind, the new Supreme Court case of Counterman v. Colorado, which is the constitutional law complement to Elonis v. United States on the mens rea theme for threats; also, some historically important new state law cases on strict liability
• Notes on the implications for substantive criminal law of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, including application to the principle of legality and expanded liability under complicity and conspiracy.
• On Causation, the dramatic case of the parents of school shooter, Ethan Crumbley, where we have not only a verdict, but also its important appellate opinion extending liability for parents’ failure to prevent homicidal action by a child.
Tilotta v. United States, addressing the abandonment doctrine in federal criminal law in the special context of the use of a confidential informant in a sting operation.
• New context notes for the famous Griffin case to illuminate its racial implications, as well as a comparative and historical note about the difference between the aversion to conspiracy doctrine under civil law systems as compared to its popularity in American federal law.
• A new framing of Crimes against Persons that begins with an introductory primer on assault and battery, and then subsumes the chapters on homicide law, along with Rape and Sexual Assault. On the latter, some important new cases on nonconsent and mens rea, and a new opening section with some academic excerpts directly addressing the question of the challenges of teaching and learning this sensitive subject in in the basic criminal law course.
• Under Additional Offenses, a new frame for Offenses against Property. The theft section includes updated excerpts on the Supreme Court’s narrow readings of federal corruption statutes, and then a new subsection on the common law of trespass as a crime against private property, but also as a substitute for vagrancy law when defined as trespass on public property. Then a streamlined section on Offenses against Government and legal system, focusing on perjury and false statements—now a much more efficiently teachable unit that avoids the almost undigestible complexities of obstruction of justice law.

Professors and student will benefit from:

• Strong authorship team: The late John Kaplan, a storied teacher and scholar; Weisberg and Binder, noted scholars in criminal law, and new co-author Aya Gruber
• Interdisciplinary approach
• Well-edited cases, interesting materials, and clear notes
• Logical organization
• “Snapshot Review” exercises to aid students in exam preparation

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About the authors
John Kaplan
Stanford University

John Kaplan is the late Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford University.

Robert Weisberg
Stanford University

Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, is Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and works primarily in the field of criminal justice, writing and teaching in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, white collar crime, and sentencing policy. He also founded and now serves as faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC), which promotes and coordinates research and public policy programs on criminal law and the criminal justice system, including institutional examination of the police and correctional systems.

In 1979, Professor Weisberg received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he served as President of the Stanford Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court. After joining the Stanford law faculty, he served as a consulting attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the California Appellate Project on death penalty cases, and he continues to consult on criminal appeals in the state and federal courts.

Professor Weisberg is a three-time winner of the law school’s John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before entering the field of law, Professor Weisberg received a PhD in English at Harvard and was a tenured English professor at Skidmore College. Drawing on that background, he is one of the nation’s leading scholars on the intersection of law and literature and co-author of the highly praised book, Literary Criticisms of Law.

Guyora Binder
State University of New York, Buffalo

Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Law, was formerly law clerk to federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Dana Fellow of Comparative Jurisprudence at U.C.L.A., Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. He has written in the areas of jurisprudence, criminal law, constitutional law, and international law. His research primarily concerns the representation of historical change and of personal and group identity in law and legal thought. Guyora Binder is the author of Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction (Praeger, 1988), and coauthor of Criminal Law (Little Brown, 1996) and Literary Criticisms of Law (Princeton University Press, 2000). His work has appeared in such journals as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.

Product Information
Edition
Tenth Edition
Publication date
2025-03-12
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
1200
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Subject
Criminal Law
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