Logan, who has published numerous articles on law, describes the focus of his research as “the methods and theories underlying modern means of social control, for example, the constitutional implications of retroactive methods of punishment, such as Megan’s Law and the civil commitment of sexually violent predators.”

Dean David Bayley of the School of Criminal Justice says of Logan’s appointment, “Wayne Logan becomes the second member of our faculty with a law degree. We’ve hired him in order to deepen our expertise in the field we call law and social control.”

Logan graduated from Wesleyan University in 1983 with a B.A. in Anthropology, and in 1991 he completed his doctoral studies in jurisprudence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. While at Madison, Logan served as senior articles editor for the Wisconsin Law Review, and also received the William Herbert Page Award for outstanding submission to that journal.

Since earning his doctorate, Logan has practiced law, most recently as a litigation associate with a law firm in Raleigh, N.C. He is a member of the bars of the North Carolina, District of Columbia, Wisconsin and U.S. Fourth Circuit, and also a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Appellate Rules Study Committee.

Logan says he is “happy and proud to be part of the School of Criminal Justice. It is widely regarded as the best of its kind.”

John LeMay