April 2: Cleveland - Can Jurors Understand the Mental State Categories Employed in the Criminal Law?

Kenneth W. Simons

Title:
Can Jurors Understand the Mental State Categories Employed in the Criminal Law?
When/Where:
Thursday, April 2, 2015
5:00pm - 6:00pm
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(Moot Court Room)
Speaker:
Kenneth W. Simons is Professor of Law and the Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law at Boston University School of Law, where he has taught Criminal Law, Torts, Constitutional Law, and seminars on the Law and Ethics of War, the Philosophy of Punishment, and the Idea of Equality. He is currently co-Reporter of the Restatement Third of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons. He is a leading scholar on the topic of assumption of risk in tort law, and has published an influential series of articles on the nature and role of mental states in criminal law, tort, and constitutional law. He also has written widely on bias crimes, contributory negligence, corrective justice, the logic of egalitarian norms, mistake and impossibility in criminal law, negligence as a moral and legal concept, and strict liability.
By:

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Credit:
1 free pending
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
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