Melanie D. Wilson
Associate Professor of LawSubjects: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence
Phone: 785-864-0359
E-mail:mdwilson@ku.edu
Profile
Melanie Wilson joined the KU Law faculty in 2007. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and served on the Editorial Board of the Georgia Law Review. Prior to joining the KU Law faculty, she was an associate professor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. Wilson has extensive litigation experience. She was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia and, prior to that, in the Middle District of Georgia. She worked five years as an assistant attorney general for the State of Georgia.
Representative Publications
Criminal Procedure, Seventh Edition (coauthor with Joseph G. Cook and Paul Marcus) (LexisNexis 2009); An Exclusionary Rule for Police Lies, Am. Crim. L. Rev., Issue 47-1 (forthcoming 2010); "The Return of Reasonableness: Saving the Fourth Amendment from the Supreme Court," 59 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 1 (2008); "Finding a Happy and Ethical Medium Between a Prosecutor Who Believes the Defendant Didn't Do It and the Boss Who Says That He Did," 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 65 (2008); "Prosecutors 'Doing Justice' Through Osmosis Reminders to Encourage a Culture of Cooperation," 45 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 67 (2008); "The Price of Pretrial Release: Can We Afford to Keep Our Fourth Amendment Rights?," 92 Iowa L. Rev. 159 (2006).
Research Interests
Federal criminal procedure, Fourth Amendment, prosecutorial ethics.
Education
J.D., A.B.J., University of Georgia, 1990, 1987.
Admitted
Georgia 1990;
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals;
Northern, Middle and Southern federal district courts in Georgia
Career History
Clerk, Judge Richard C. Freeman (deceased), United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 1992-1993; Associate, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, 1993-1995; Adjunct Professor, Emory Law School, 1993-1999; Assistant Attorney General, State of Georgia, 1995-1999; Assistant United States Attorney, Middle District of Georgia, 1999-2001, Northern District of Georgia, 2001-2005; Associate Professor, John Marshall Law School, 2005-2007; Associate Professor, Kansas, July 2007 to present.
Member
Order of the Coif.
