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Working within the Department’s concentration in Criminal Legal Studies, Dr. Wilson is also pleased to serve as Director of the pre law minor, Coordinator of the Pre-Law Resource Center and the pre law advisor, and faculty adviser for the Stan State Pre Law Society student club.
Working from the perspectives of legal practitioner and academic, Dr. Wilson is interested in how law (criminal law in particular) implements and enforces practical ethics through the concrete social and political institutions which define and regulate punishment, privacy rights, and property rights. He also enjoys writing about the various interelationships between philosophy, law, politics, film, music, and literature.
As an attorney, Dr. Wilson has tried cases in dozens of California state and appellate courts, and several Federal District courts. He is currently licensed in California (1993) and New York (2015), and formerly licensed in Colorado (2009). He has worked as both a private attorney and a court-appointed ‘private defender’ on behalf of the indigent. Dr. Wilson’s specialization in criminal law and defense includes extensive hands-on experience within the institutions of the criminal law such as the prison system, the methodologies of sentencing and punishment, and constitutional criminal procedure.
- Critical Examination of Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedures I and II
- Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty
- Success Strategies for Criminal Justice
- Criminal Judicial Process
- Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice
- Jurisprudence, Law, & Society
- Court Observer Program
- Moot Court
- Theory of Crime and Punishment
- Legal Research and Writing
- A Philosophy of Criminal Justice (Budapest: Trivent Publishing), under contract.
- “Introduction” and “Reflections From The Abyss: Herzog’s Philosophy of Death” in The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, eds. Christopher Turner and M. Blake Wilson (Lanham: Lexington Books [Rowman & Littlefield], 2020).
- “The Business Ethics of Recreational Marijuana,” in Business Cases in Ethical Focus (Broadview Press, 2019).
- “Examining the effects of psychiatric symptoms, brain injury symptoms, and low self-control on theplacement of inmates in administrative segregation and their risk for suicidal ideations,” Chintakrindi, S., Cappelan, J., Porter, J. R., Gupta. S. & Wilson, M.B. (forthcoming 2021).
- “Communitarianism,” “First Occupancy Rights,” encyclopedia entries in World Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, ed. Michael Kocsis (Springer, 2020).
- “Personhood and Property in Hegel’s Conception of Freedom,” Pólemos Rivista di Filosophia No. 2, 2018.
- “Flow My Tears, Rick Deckard Said,” in Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy (La Salle: Open Court Publishing, 2019).
- “Counterrevolutionary Polemics: Katechon and Crisis in de Maistre, Donoso, and Schmitt,” Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 3 (2): 2019, December)
- “Letter of October 24, 1851,” translation of Juan Donoso Cortés, Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 3 (2):96-104 (2019)
- “In the Neutral Zone, A Libertarian’s Home is Their (High) Castle,” in The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy (La Salle: Open Court Publishing, 2017).
- “Behind Zarathustra’s Eyes: The Bad, Sad Man Meets Nietzsche’s Prophet,” in The Who and Philosophy (Lexington Books [Rowman & Littlefield], The Philosophy of Popular Culture Book Series, 2016.