Associate Professor of Law
B.A., J.D. University of Virginia
LL.M., J.S.D. Yale Law School
E-mail:
wmoliver@widener.edu Phone: 717.541.3915
Wesley Oliver is an Associate Professor of Law at Widener's Harrisburg campus. Professor Oliver received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School.
At Widener, Professor Oliver has taught courses on constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, legal history, business organizations, and Remedies. He has previously served on the faculties of the Tulane Law School, the University of Maine School Law, the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada and the Harvard Law School where he taught criminal law with Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Prior to entering academia, he was a member of the firm Edwards, Simmons & Oliver in Nashville, Tennessee, primarily handling criminal appeals. As a practicing lawyer and an academic, Professor Oliver has frequently represented the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Association of Federal Defenders as amicus curiae in matters before the United States Supreme Court. Professor Oliver writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and legal history.
Selected Recent Publications
Books
- Tennessee Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (West 2011) (forthcoming)
Articles
- Material Witness Detentions After al-Kidd, 100 Kentucky Law Journal ______ (forthcoming 2012)
- Western Union, The Teamsters, Google, and the Changing Face of Privacy Advocates, 80 Mississippi Law Journal _____ (2011) (forthcoming)
- The Modern History of Probable Cause, 78 Tennessee Law Review 377 (2011)
- The Neglected History of Criminal Procedure, 1850-1940, 62 Rutgers L. Rev. 447 (2010).
- Magistrate's Examinations, Police Interrogations And Miranda-Like Rules In Nineteenth Century New York, 81 Tulane Law Review 777 (2007)
- The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, 1 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 726 (2005).
- Toward A Better Categorical Balance Of The Costs And Benefits Of The Exclusionary Rule, 9 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 100 (2005).