Welcome the the class blog of the Moritz College of Law's LP3: Clemency (with first week plans)

This blog got started over a dozen years ago (with the uninspired title of Death Penalty Course @ Moritz College of Law) in order to facilitate student engagement in a Spring 2007 course on the death penalty.  Because the blog proved successful during that semester, and because the students' hard work as reflected in the archives still generates web traffic and might still be of interest to current students, I have kept repeatedly building subsequent sentencing classes on this platform by rebooting this blog for each new course.  

We are now approaching the start of a new decade, and I am very excited to be starting 2020 by gearing up teach a brand we course at the Moritz College of Law, an LP3 course on Clemency.  Ever the web-savvy dinosaur, I figured I could and would use this blog to provide electronic access to materials, to flag current events and to supplement our readings and discussions.  Because I use this blog (rather than TWEN) as convenient place to post information about class activities and plans and assignments, students can and should be on the look out for class materials and announcements posted here.

So, for example, here is a repeating of what is posted on the Moritz official website for our first assignment as we gear up for the first class:

In preparation for our first class on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 you should:

1.  Do some research on what you think is a good, clear and complete definition of "clemency."  Please bring that definition (and its source) to our first class.

2. Find/research on your own a real-world example of (state or federal) clemency which took place BEFORE the 21st Century that is of interest to you, and come to our first class prepared to describe this clemency example and why it is of interest to you.   (We will discuss a lot of 21st Century clemency examples throughout the semester.)

3.  Get excited about our first class, where you will get the class syllabus and the first set of readings.

 

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