Wayne A. Logan
Wayne A. Logan
Florida State University
College of Law
Main Classroom Building, Room 324
Phone: 850.644.7215
wlogan@law.fsu.edu
J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1991
M.A. (Criminology), State University of New York at Albany, 1986
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1983
Wayne A. Logan, Steven M. Goldstein Professor, teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing. He is the author or co-author of several books, including most recently, The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in a Punitive Society (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is also the author of many book chapters and law review articles, with work appearing in such publications as the Georgetown Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. His scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court on two occasions as well as in over one hundred state and lower federal court decisions. He is also commonly quoted in national media outlets, including the A.B.A. Journal, National Public Radio, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
Professor Logan is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has taught for over two decades, the last eighteen years at FSU Law. At FSU Law, he served as associate dean for academic affairs (2008-11) and was awarded a University Graduate Teaching Award (2015). Before entering academia, Professor Logan clerked for the North Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and practiced law in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Select Recent and Forthcoming Publications
The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in A Punitive Society (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Sentencing Law, Policy and Practice (with Michael O'Hear) (Foundation Press, 2022) (2nd edition forthcoming 2026)
Florida Search and Seizure Law (LexisNexis 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024)
Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws: An Empirical Evaluation (contributing author and co-editor with J.J. Prescott) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy, And Practice (with Margaret Love & Jenny Roberts) (Thomson Reuters, 4th ed., 2021)
Contagion Policing, 2026 University of Illinois Law Review__ (forthcoming 2026)
Deepfakes in Interrogations, 60 Wake Forest Law Review __ (forthcoming 2025)
The Harms of Heien: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Court's Search and Seizure Doctrine, 77 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2024)
Policing Emotions: What Social Psychology Can Teach Fourth Amendment Doctrine, 72 Buffalo Law Review 685 (2024)
Governmental Authority to Compel the Carrying of Stigmatizing Documents, 20 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 220 (2024)
Should Detection Avoidance Be Criminalized? 18 Criminal Law & Philosophy 431 (2024) (peer-reviewed)
The “Alito Hypothesis” in an Era of Emboldened One-Party State Governance, 18 Harvard Law & Policy Review 395 (2024)
Crowdsourcing Crime Control, 99 Texas L. Rev. 137 (2020)