Criminal Law was my favorite class as a first-year law student at Northwestern University Law School in 1958. I’ve loved it ever since, a love that has only grown from teaching it at least once a year at the University of Minnesota since 1971. I hope my love of the subject comes through in Criminal Law, which I’ve just finished for the tenth time. It’s a great source of satisfaction that my modest innovation to the study of criminal law—the textcasebook— has endured and flourished. Criminal Law, the text-casebook, brings together the description, analysis, and critique of general principles with excerpts of cases edited for nonlawyers
