August 11th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright and Assistant Professor Francis Flanagan of the Wake Forest University Department of Economics have received a grant from the Law and Social Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
June 1st, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright has been named the 13th most-cited criminal law and procedure faculty member in the United States, from 2010 to 2014, in Brian Leiter’s law school report, published originally on Law Professor Blogs Network on May 18, 2016. The study’s data was draw from the 2015 Sisk study.
January 29th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright‘s research on voter turnout for prosecutorial elections was used in an article by Vox.com to discuss how Netflix’s documentary “Making a Murderer” is shedding light on the judicial system. Read the full article below. Continue reading »
November 11th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ron Wright is quoted in the following story in the Asheville Citizen-Times: Continue reading »
October 22nd, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright was among the speakers at an expert roundtable discussion hosted by the U.S. Sentencing Commission on Oct. 15. 2015. The roundtable took place at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C. Continue reading »
July 10th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright’s study on elected prosecutors was recently quoted in numerous national news stories regarding the fact that 60 percent of states do not have elected black prosecutors. Continue reading »
February 19th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Yancy Gulley Professor of Criminal Law Ronald Wright worked with Kay L. Levine of Emory University School of Law and Jenia Iontcheva Turner of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law to post “Evidence Laundering: How Herring Made Ignorance the Best Detergent” on SSRN on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.
February 19th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Ronald Wright will be among nearly two dozen of the most prominent criminal procedure scholars in the nation who will convene at William & Mary Law School on Feb. 20-21 to discuss the future of plea bargaining in the United States. Wright, who is the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Yancy Gulley Professor of Criminal Law, is one of the nation’s best known criminal justice scholars. He is the co-author of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing; his empirical research concentrates on the work of criminal prosecutors. Learn more about him here. Continue reading »
January 9th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Executive Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Ron Wright tells the Gothamist.com that criminal justice actors rely on the income from LFOs in the article “The NYPD Slowdown is Working, Let’s Keep It,” published on Jan. 7, 2015:
September 15th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Ron Wright, Needham Yancy Gulley professor of criminal law, is serving as executive associate dean for academic affairs for Wake Forest Law for the 2014-15 academic year. It’s a role that he is more than familiar with having served the law school in the same capacity from 2007-2010. Continue reading »
