John Shepard Wiley, Jr.

Biography

John Shepard Wiley, Jr.
Visiting Professor of Law
A.B. UC Davis, 1975
J.D. UC Berkeley-Boalt Hall, 1980
M.A. Economics, UC Berkeley, 1980
UCLA Law faculty since 1983
wiley@law.ucla.edu

John Wiley teaches Antitrust Law, Evidence, Criminal Law I, Criminal Law, and Intellectual Property. In 1990, he received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award. He took a leave from UCLA from 1990 through 1993 to join the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where he tried fraud and bank robbery cases. He served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993 and as consultant to the same committee in the nomination of Justice Stephen Breyer. More recently, the California Commission on Judicial Performance retained him as trial and appellate counsel to bring charges of ethical misconduct against a California superior court judge. He regularly lectures to judges for the Federal Judicial Center, has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, and also regularly comments to the media about controversial legal cases.

After law school, Professor Wiley clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Maine and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.. He is a mountaineer of mediocre abilities. He has fallen off routes in Britain, France, Spain, and Norway, as well as throughout the United States. Most famously, during his junior year abroad in Great Britain, as he scaled a cliff a wave washed him into the Irish Sea; an R.A.F. helicopter rescued him, and The National Enquirer paid him $100 for the story.

Professor Wiley has published widely in leading law reviews on issues in law and economics, antitrust, intellectual property, and, recently, criminal law.