Sarah Welling
Emeritus 2021
Sarah N. Welling is an Ashland-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law.
Her primary research interest is federal criminal law, particularly money laundering. She has spoken on federal criminal law in Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. On money laundering, she has consulted with Congress and the CIA, served as a team leader in a RAND exercise, and been quoted by the New York Times.
Sarah’s most recent books are Wright & Welling, Federal Practice and Procedure (formerly known as Wright & Miller), Volumes 3 and 3A (4th ed. 2010) covering Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 31-42.
Her articles have appeared in Hastings Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review.
Sarah was elected to the American Law Institute in 2008.
Sarah has been the Reporter for the Sixth Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions since 1999.
She joined the faculty in 1981 after clerking for then-District Court Judge Eugene E. Siler, Jr. and practicing for two years at a large firm in Chicago.
Specialties
- Federal Criminal Law
- Federal Criminal Procedure
Courses
- Law 811 Criminal Procedure
- Law 943 Seminar: Criminal Law and Procedure Issues
- Charles Alan Wright & Sarah N. Welling, Federal Practice and Procedure, Vol. 3 (Thomson West, 4th ed. 2011) (updated annually).
- Charles Alan Wright & Sarah N. Welling, Federal Practice and Procedure, Vol. 3A (Thomson West, 4th ed. 2010) (updated annually).
- Sarah N. Welling (Reporter), Sixth Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions (Thomson West 2013). (updated online as needed at the Sixth Circuit website)
Scholarship is available for download at Sarah N. Welling's SelectedWorks page.
- Diane R. Follingstad, M. Jill Rogers, Sarah N. Welling & F. Jill Priesmeyer, Decisions to Prosecute Battered Women's Homicide Cases: An Exploratory Study, 30 J. Fam. Violence 859 (2015).
- Sarah Welling, Reviving the Federal Crime of Gratuities, 55 Ariz. L. Rev. 417 (2013).
- Sarah N. Welling & Jane Lyle Hord, Friction in Reconciling Criminal Forfeiture and Bankruptcy: The Criminal Forfeiture Part, 42 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 551 (2012).
- Sarah N. Welling & Andy G. Rickman, Cyberlaundering: The Risks, the Responses, 50 Fla. L. Rev. 295 (1998).
- Sarah N. Welling & Medrith Lee Hager, Defining Excessiveness: Applying the Eighth Amendment to Civil Forfeiture after Austin v. United States, 83 Ky. L.J. 835 (1995).
- Sarah Welling, Money Laundering: The Anti-Structuring Rules, 44 Ala. L. Rev. 787 (1993).
- Sarah N. Welling, White Collar Crime from Scratch: Some Observations on the East European Experience, 35 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 271 (1993).
- Eugene R. Gaetke & Sarah N. Welling, Money Laundering and Lawyers, 43 Syracuse L. Rev. 1165 (1992).
- Sarah N. Welling, Smurfs, Money Laundering and the Federal Criminal Law: The Crime of Structuring Transactions, 41 Fla. L. Rev. 287 (1989).
- Sarah Welling, Victims in the Criminal Process: A Utilitarian Analysis of Victim Participation in the Charging Decision, 30 Ariz. L. Rev. 85 (1988).
- Sarah Welling & Barbara Jones, Prison Reform Issues for the Eighties: Modification and Dissolution of Injunctions in the Federal Courts, 20 Conn. L. Rev. 865 (1988).
- Sarah N. Welling, Victim Participation in Plea Bargains, 65 Wash. U. L. Q. 301 (1987).
- William H. Fortune & Sarah Welling, Kentucky Law Survey, Criminal Procedure, 72 Ky. L.J. 381 (1984).
- Sarah Welling, Discovery of Nonparties' Tangible Things under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 59 Notre Dame L. Rev. 110 (1983).
- Sarah N. Welling, Intracorporate Plurality in Criminal Conspiracy Law, 33 Hastings L.J. 1155 (1982).
- Sarah N. Welling, Comment, The Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act, 65 Ky. L.J. 541 (1977).
- Sarah N. Welling, Comment, State ex rel. Swann v. Pack: Self-Endangerment and the First Amendment, 65 Ky. L.J. 195 (1976).
Links
- SSRN
- Welling - CV.pdf (80.08 KB)