Class Visit: Criminal Procedure, Professor Tamara Lave

As space is limited, there is a limit of 5 students per class. Students are limited to 1 requests per class offering.

Criminal Procedure Investigation is a constitutional law course focusing on the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. We will discuss searches and seizures, the warrant requirement, the exclusionary rule, involuntary statements, Miranda, and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. It is fabulous stuff! Please note that there will be one mandatory film shown outside of class, and there may be a required lunch with a guest speaker. You will also be required to visit the J*il and write a short reflection piece about your experience.

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Professor Lave was a deputy public defender for ten years in San Diego, California. As a P.D., she handled a variety of cases including possession of a spiny lobster out of season, torture, child molestation, rape, and M**der. She also represented accused sexually violent predators in civil commitment hearings. Early in her career, Lave published a My Turn column in Newsweek magazine about being a beginning public defender.

In 2005, Professor Lave left the public defender's office to start a doctoral program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy – an interdisciplinary law and society program – at the University of California, Berkeley. While there, she was a graduate student fellow at the Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs. Her dissertation is entitled "Constructing and Controlling the Sexually Violent Predator: An American Obsession."

Lave teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal procedure adjudication, and evidence. She cares deeply about teaching and mentoring students. She is the 2018 recipient of the Hausler Golden Apple Award, given to the faculty member contributing the most to the student body both academically and through her extracurricular activities. In 2016, she received the Mary E. Doyle Leadership award from Miami Law Women, the law student division of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers.

Professor Lave’s primary areas of research are campus sexual misconduct, the punishment and control of sex offenders, and more recently, policing. She has published over twenty-three academic articles or book chapters, of which five are co-authored. She has published opinion pieces in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Persuasion, and the Huffington Post. Lave has been a peer reviewer for a number of journals including the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Yale Law Journal.

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