Richard H. McAdams
Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-2520
email: rmcadams@uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30311 1 Criminal Law
  This course, offered over two sequential quarters, addresses the doctrines of criminal liability and the moral and social problems of crime. The definitions of crimes and defenses are considered in light of the purposes of punishment and the role of the criminal justice system, including police and correctional agencies. The student's grade is based on class participation and a single final examination.
  Winter (3) 1L, a
  
  
• 47201 1 Criminal Procedure I: The Investigative Process
  The course focuses on the constitutional law that governs searches, seizures, and confessions. The course considers in detail the evolution of the exclusionary rule and the development and administration of the probable cause and warrant requirements. It also examines stop and frisk, administrative searches, searches incident to arrest, vehicle searches, consent searches, and the admissibility of confessions. The student's grade is based on a final examination.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 49901 54 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 52612 1 Workshop: Crime and Punishment
  The study of crime and punishment has always held a prominent place in the social sciences and professional schools at the University of Chicago. This workshop carries on this tradition. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and graduate students to present current research, it allows participants to contribute to the development of new understandings of crime and society s response to crime. This workshop will host a series of lively and interactive presentations covering such topics as discipline and governmentality, actuarial justice, mass incarceration, and punishment theory. Sessions will be held roughly every two weeks. Grading will be based on reaction papers and participation in the workshops.
  Autumn (1) a
  
  
• 95912 1 Greenberg Seminar: Terrorism and the Law
  What motivates terrorists? What, if anything, can the law do to minimize risk from terrorist violence? Has US strategy helped or worsened the threat of terrorism? This seminar will consider these issues from both international and US legal perspectives. The seminar will meet on five Wednesday evenings throughout the year. Our first book will be Robert Pape s Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005).
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Other courses taught include:

• Criminal Procedure: Investigation
• Criminal Law
• Contracts
• Law & Economics
• Race, Inequality and Economics (short course)
• First Amendment
• Federal Criminal Law
• Seminars on: Criminal Law Policy, Criminal Investigations, Social Science in Law, and Honor, Esteem, Status and the Law.