LAW 2971 - Police Discretion: A Comparative Approach
This two-credit course will be held on the campus of the Max Planck Institute, a world-renowned research institution. This class will focus upon police conduct and judicial decision-making from a comparative law perspective. Emphasis will be placed upon exploring contrasting international approaches to investigative conduct and arrests with particular emphasis on the analysis on British, Canadian, and European approaches to policing discretion.
In the main, the class seeks to: 1) provide a solid background on jurisprudential approaches to the exercise of policing discretion in the United States, with concomitant emphasis on the laws, the players, and the theories; 2) explore variations in approaches to policing discretion found in other international jurisdictions; 3) analyze whether British, Canadian and European nations have adopted, rejected or built upon the American approach toaddressing the exercise of police discretion in searching for and collecting evidence of criminal activity and in making arrests; 4) using the American Constitutional safeguards provided by the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution as comparative baselines, students will analyze the approaches of selected international legal systems to matters of policing discretion.
Prerequisites & Notes
Criminal Law
Credits: 2
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