Melvin L. Otey began his legal career as a Trial Attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. After a decade of federal service and four years in private practice, he joined the Faulkner Law faculty in 2014. Professor Otey teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Federal Crimes, and a seminar on current topics in criminal law. His scholarship has appeared in law reviews and peer-reviewed publications in biblical studies and theology, including scholarly journals and edited volumes.
Melvin Otey, J.D., M. Phil., M.Div. (Full Professor)
Faulkner University, Jones School of Law
criminal law, criminal procedure, racketeering, religion and society, religion and spirituality at the workplace
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Publications
- Melvin L Otey, “Toward a Broader Theocentric Environmentalism,” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2024. Pages 1–32
- Melvin L Otey, “Christian Faith and Marijuana Use After Federal Rescheduling,” Indiana Health Law Review, 2025. Pages 351–379
- Melvin L. Otey, “Transnational Organized Crime,” The Norwich Review of International and Transnational Crime, 2015. Pages 8
- Melvin L. Otey, “Toward Improving Policing in African American Communities,” Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, 2016. Pages 67–118
- Melvin L Otey, “Does Motive Also Follow the Bullet? Transferred Intent and Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering,” Tennessee Law Review, 2022. Pages 377–417
- Melvin L Otey, “The Vexing Case of Venue for Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering,” Penn State Law Review, 2021. Pages 737–771
- Melvin L Otey, “A Paradigm for the Proper Use of Pre-Majority Conduct in Prosecuting Continuing Crimes,” George Mason Law Review, 2020. Pages 307–343
- Melvin L Otey, “The Propriety of Multiple Meanings in Scripture,” Restoration Quarterly, 2023. Pages 94–102
- Melvin L Otey, “To Punish or Not to Punish: Juveniles Offenders and Murder in Aid of Racketeering,” Baylor Law Review, 2023. Pages 593–629
- Melvin L Otey, “Jesus’s Objections During His Preliminary Examination and Modern Notions of Due Process,” Regent University Law Review, 2022. Pages 91–134
- Melvin L. Otey, “Why RICO's Extraterritorial Reach Is Properly Coextensive with the Reach of Its Predicates,” Journal of International Business and Law, 2015. Pages 33–65
- Melvin L Otey, “What Christians Need to Know About “Legalized” Marijuana,” Themelios, 2023. Pages 395–403
- Melvin L Otey, “Witness Sequestration and the Failure of Proof in Jesus’s Sanhedrin Trial (Mark 14:55–59),” Restoration Quarterly, 2023. Pages 149–160
- Melvin L Otey, “Jesus’ High Priestly Inquisitor in John Eighteen,” Stone-Campbell Journal, 2023. Pages 81–95
- Melvin L Otey, “The Ancient Pedigree of Homosexuality as the Sin of Sodom,” Themelios, 2024. Pages 32–43
- Melvin L Otey, “What Churches Should Do When Civil Authorities Restrict their Assemblies,” Theology Today, 2024. Pages 126–135
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