Skip to Main Content

Criminal Law

This library guide was created to assist J.D. students in Criminal Law at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law, organizing online resources made available by the law library.

CALI Lessons

The CALI Criminal Law Outline allows you to search for terms of art that correspond to topics you are studying to find suggestions for related CALI Lessons. The CALI Criminal Law Index lists all CALI Lessons covering Torts. 

CALI Lessons: Criminal Law

Overview

  • Punishment Theories
  • Sources of Criminal Law
  • Constitutional Limitations: Legality
  • Constitutional Limitations: 8th Amendment
  • Presumption of Innocence (Burden of Proof and Presumptions)

Requirements of a Crime

  • Actus Reus
  • Omissions
  • Mens Rea: Purpose
  • Mens Rea: Knowledge
  • Mens Rea: Recklessness
  • Mens Rea: Negligence
  • Mistake Under the Model Penal Code: Mistake as to Elements of Offenses
  • Mistake Under the Model Penal Code: Mistake as to Defenses 
  • Mistake as to the Law Defining the Offense
  • Causation
  • Concurrence 

Defenses and Affirmative Defenses

  • Justification Defenses: Excuse Defenses Distinguished 
  • Duress, Entrapment, Mistake
  • Insanity and Infancy
  • Self-Defense
  • Defense of Others
  • Duty to Retreat
  • Consent

Inchoate Crimes

  • The Mens Rea of Attempts
  • Accomplice Liability: Mens Rea
  • Accomplice Liability: Actus Reus Requirement
  • Suspendatur!

Parties to Crime

  • Accomplice Liability: Definitional Issues
  • Accomplice Liability: Mens Rea
  • Accomplice Liability: Actus Reus Requirement

Homicide

  • Introduction to Homicide
  • Homicide (Causation)
  • Homicide Causation - Part 2
  • Homicide (Defining Death and Life)
  • Homicide (Murder)
  • Homicide (Murder by Degrees)
  • Homicide (Unlawful Act Manslaughter)
  • Homicide (Involuntary Manslaughter)
  • Homicide (Felony Murder)