Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law

Welcome to version 3.0 of this blog (supporting now a Sentencing Seminar at Fordham)

Welcome to the SECOND re-launch of a this blogging adventure.  This blog started two years ago, with the uninspired title of Death Penalty Course @ Moritz College of Law, to facilitate student engagement in the Spring 2007 course on the death penalty that I taught at OSU's Moritz College of Law. 

Though I closed this blog down not long after that course ended, I was pleased to see all the students' hard work as reflected in the archives still generating significant traffic and much of the posts remain timely.  Consequently, as when I geared up for teaching Criminal Punishment & Sentencing in Spring 2009 at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, I decided to reboot this blog to allow the new course to build indirectly in this space on some of the materials covered before.  In both classes, I was generally pleased with how this blog helped promote a new type of student engagement and with on-line media with students in the 2007 class.  (Even after nearly six years of focused blogging at my main blog, I continue to be amazed by what can be discovered through the process of blogging.)  

Now, circa January 2010, I am gearing up for teaching a Sentencing Seminar as a visiting professor at Fordham Law School in New York City.  Because we have a traditional text for our 2010 Sentencing Seminar, I am not yet sure how much of a role this blog will play in course activities.  But, especially because a lot of new exciting sentencing developments seem likely in 2010 (as noted in posts here and here), I suspect this space will stay active just by trying to keep up with current events.

WELCOME!

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