Author Description

In this criminal law casebook, Angela Harris, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, and author of Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary with Katherine Bartlett (1998) and Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado and Stephanie Wildman (2000), and Cynthia Lee, The George Washington University Law School and author of Murder and the Reasonable Man (NYU Press 2003), offer a refreshingly critical perspective on the well-established substantive criminal law. Harris and Lee highlight issues regarding race, gender and sexual orientation to an extent unparalleled in most of the existing criminal law casebooks, offering the criminal law professor who wishes to engage students in such issues the opportunity to do so without burdening them with additional supplemental material. The casebook offers lightly-edited cases for fuller contextual background and discussion, and introductory text to provide students with a road map of the cases which follow.