Posted by Orin Kerr:
Do Law Students Need a Guide to the Model Penal Code?:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_01_14-2007_01_20.shtml#1167540432
Here's a post for the recent and current law students in the VC
audience. I usually teach criminal law in the fall, and my course
focuses on the Model Penal Code (aka the "MPC"). Learning the MPC is a
pretty important part of learning criminal law in a lot of courses,
and yet in my experience there aren't good books or guides on how to
learn the MPC. A few such books exist, but my students haven't found
them particularly helpful.
Given that, I was thinking recently that I might write a law
student's guide to the Model Penal Code -- think [1]"The Model Penal
Code in a Nutshell." Here's the question: Would students find such a
guide helpful? Or do other commercial outlines and books on the market
already cover this ground? Several student-focused books cover the
common law pretty well, but I haven't been as satisfied with the
offerings on the MPC. What's your take?
References
1. http://www.thomson.com/content/legal/brand_overviews/wg_nutshell
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