Sign up above. The Criminal Law Powwow E-discussion group provides a forum for filing of case briefs by case experts and responses to assigned queries in Professor Moses' FALL 2009 Criminal Law class. For full credit, always identify yourself by name. This group can also be used as a sounding board for students in the class to discuss, debate, and argue issues involved in the study of the law of crimes and defenses. To enter and fully access this group site, you must create a free YAHOO e-mail account ASAP and provide that e-mail address to the professor.

Group members are encouraged to openly speak their reasoned views. Members of the group are invited to criticize, praise, and share values. Politeness and civility are essential. As a predicate to rationally attacking the position of a fellow member, first strive to be able to accurately restate the ideas and feelings of your colleague to his or her satisfaction.

As a lawyer you will develop an argumentative style of thinking. Argumentative dialogue with others is a way of getting those who conceive of no other views than their own on a topic to examine all sides of the issues. Argumentative discourse promotes argumentative reasoning. We may learn that we don't really know anything until we question our point of view or have it questioned by others. Be alert for emotion. Emotion can energize, but also compromise, our ability to reason. If you take a position, develop an argument to justify it. Think of counter-arguments and the rebuttal you could offer to them.

For reasons of security, attachments to email messages sent to the group are not allowed. Of course, you can cut and paste to your email.

Suggestion: If you reply to a message, swipe across the message you are replying to and delete it. Your response will continue in that thread, but will eliminate the redundancy of the previous message and will not clog the group site with strings of duplicitious material.