Melanie Reid
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Adjunct Professor of Law Location: Carlisle Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law |
About Reid
Melanie Reid is the Associate Dean of Faculty and a Professor of Law at Duncan School of Law at Lincoln Memorial University. Prior to joining LMU Law, Professor Reid was a trial attorney in the Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section at the U.S. Department of Justice as well as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida. She is a former law clerk for Judge Charles Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a member of the Florida Bar.
Professor Reid has lectured on various topics, including prosecuting international narcotics trafficking cases, proactive investigations, money laundering and asset forfeiture, federal wiretap and conspiracy laws, discovery obligations and prudential searches, advanced trial advocacy and evidentiary foundations, and evidentiary issues in international criminal cases. These lectures were sponsored by various agencies, including the DEA Office of International Training in Quantico, Virginia and in South America, the National Advocacy Center in South Carolina, the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungary, the Department of Justice in the District of Columbia, and the Regional Counterintelligence Working Group in the FBI Tampa Field Office. Reid has also lectured at the National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
In 2016, Professor Reid was a guest lecturer at Liaocheng University, Shandong Province in China and discussed select topics on constitutional law, comparative law, and criminal procedure and evidence. Reid received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to teach U.S. criminal law and procedure at the University of Latvia Faculty of Law in Riga, Latvia in 2018. In 2022, Reid taught criminal law and procedure courses at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland.
Reid has also presented and written articles on the criminal law implications of autonomous vehicles and road surveillance, robo-cops, economic espionage, drones, marijuana, narcotics trafficking in West Africa and Mexico, the culture of mass incarceration, the impact of restitution on child pornography possession cases, the role of intelligence and the use of intelligence-derived information in criminal prosecutions, and the global perspective on crime and punishment.
When not teaching, Reid prefers reading recent crim pro cases with a cup of coffee and oat milk in hand. She also enjoys learning about the latest innovative teaching ideas and using various learning styles in the classroom. She is passionate about inspiring her students to dream big, work hard, and become empathetic, compassionate, practice-ready lawyers.
Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.