Wesley M. Oliver is a Professor of Law and the holder of the Marie-Clement Rodier, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. He serves as the Director of the Law and Computing Program and holds faculty affiliations with Duquesne's Greffenstat Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Text Analytics and Law.
Professor Oliver's scholarship is extensive, focusing on criminal procedure, legal history, and the intersection of law and technology. He is the author of several books, including The Prohibition Era and Policing: A Legacy of Misregulation (Vanderbilt Univ. Press 2018), and is co-authoring the forthcoming Coding for Lawyers (Cambridge Univ. Press). His numerous articles and book chapters have appeared in publications like the Washington University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. His research, which has been cited in multiple federal and state court opinions, increasingly explores the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to legal analysis, with a particular focus on computationally assessing criminal procedure standards.
Beyond his scholarship, Professor Oliver is an award-winning teacher who has developed innovative courses such as "Coding for Lawyers" and "Statistics and Machine Learning for Lawyers" which he teaches at Duquesne Kline and in an LL.M. Program in Law, Innovation, and Technology that he helped to design at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He has held numerous leadership positions at Duquesne, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship. A sought-after media commentator, he has provided legal analysis for ABC, CBS, and NBC News, and has authored op-eds for various publications. His engagement with the legal profession also includes significant litigation experience, having authored amicus curiae briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court and litigated several cases in federal and state courts.
