Donald E. Wilkes Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDonald E. Wilkes Jr.
legal scholar
Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1944
Place of Birth: Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Date of Death: 07-Jun-2019
Profession: author
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
- Donald E.
- Wilkes Jr.
- (July 30, 1944 – June 7, 2019) from Daytona Beach, Florida) was professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law.A graduate of the University of Florida (B.A., 1965; J.D., 1969) Wilkes became professor of law at the University of Georgia in 1971, a post he has held ever since.
- He has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since 1972 and in 1975–1976 was a fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University Law School.An authority on the law of Habeas corpus, Wilkes's work State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook was cited by the U.S.
- Supreme Court in the case Wall v.
- Kholi 131 S.Ct.
- 1278 (U.S.
- 2011).Wilkes is credited with the introduction of the term New Federalism in relation to criminal procedure in the United States in a series of essays in the Kentucky law Journal in the mid 1970s.Wilkes retired from Georgia University School of Law in 2012.
- He died, aged 74, on June 7, 2019.
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