Facebook pixel Professor Joel Johnson Interviewed on "Dead Crimes" -- Something Offbeat Podcast - Surf Report | Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Skip to main content
Pepperdine | Caruso School of Law

Emergency Info: Power Restored to the Malibu Campus Update #12 Updated at Dec. 11, 8:02 a.m.

Professor Joel Johnson Interviewed on "Dead Crimes" -- Something Offbeat Podcast

Professor Joel S.  Johnson is interviewed regarding "dead crimes" on the Something Offbeat podcast episode "A law against cohabitation: Are you guilty of a 'dead crime'?" Professor Johnson discusses how dead crimes undermine the rule of law, based on his recently published Georgetown Law Review article "Dealing with Dead Crimes" (SSRN).

From Something Offbeat podcast:

From shacking up in Michigan to eating oranges in the bathtub on California soil, there are some truly bizarre “dead crimes” on the books in the U.S. Joel Johnson, a law professor at Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law, penned “Dealing with Dead Crimes”, an examination of these outdated rules and how they actually undermine the rule of law. He joined “Something Offbeat” this week to dive deeper.

The episode may be found at Something Offbeat