Overcriminalization in Federal Law

The Triangle Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Professor John Baker, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Speaker:

• Professor John Baker, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Professor Baker will discuss the trend in federal law towards criminalizing routine violations of the law and the problems that overcriminalization of the U.S. Code creates.

Baker is the Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center where he has taught constitutional law since 1975. He also teaches a number of short-courses on separation of powers with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and serves as a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University.

Baker previously worked as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans and has been a consultant to the U.S Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, the White House Office of Planning, USIA and USAID. In 2006, he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines.

Baker has presented cases in federal court, including oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the American Bar Association Task Force that issued the report, The Federalization of Crime. His writings include The Intelligence Edge, Hall's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, An Introduction to the Law of the United States, as well as articles both on the over-federalization of criminal law and the "war on terrorism."

Cost: $10, lunch included (Law students can attend for free if they do not want the catered lunch.)

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