Robert M. Wilcox
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 202
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-6112
f 803-777-8613
wilcoxrm@law.sc.edu
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Profile
A.B. (1978) Duke
J.D. (1981) University of South Carolina
Professor Wilcox joined USC law faculty in 1986 after practicing with Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. Among his primary teaching and research interests are Professional Responsibility, Mass Communication Law, Real Property, and Trusts and Estates. He has written and spoken extensively on professional ethics, and in 2003, Professor Wilcox became the Director of the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism, a USC School of Law -based clearinghouse of information and research pertaining to improvement of the character, competence, and conduct of legal professionals. He is the author of South Carolina Annotated Rules of Professional Conduct (with N. Crystal) and has written a number of articles pertaining to legal ethics and professional responsibility.
Professor Wilcox serves on Chief Justice's Commission on the Profession, and on the South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice's Commission on Ethics 2000 Implementation, and recently drafted the Commission's report to the South Carolina Supreme Court and prepared the report for public comment. He is the immediate Past Chair of the University of South Carolina Faculty Senate, Liaison to the Center on Prosecutorial Ethics, frequent presenter at continuing legal education seminars around the State of South Carolina, and a member of the Order of the Coif.
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