Wilson Parker is an expert teacher and scholar in the area of constitutional law. He is a primary author, with Michael Curtis, of Constitutional Law in Context, a constitutional law casebook that is in its second edition. His current research interest concerns constitutional history and federal-state relations, and he is currently developing a new course on “The Great Justices of the United States Supreme Court.” Wilson is also the director of the law school’s summer program in England. Prior to joining the faculty in 1981, Wilson was a trial lawyer in private practice in North Carolina, litigating employment, civil rights, and civil liberties cases. He spent Spring Semester, 1997, as a Scholar in Residence at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. He served as Chairman of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers for several years. He is currently on the Board of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation.
