Legal Publications

 Law Journal Publications

Melvin L. Otey, Christian Faith and Marijuana Use After Federal Rescheduling, 22.2 Indiana Health Law Review __ (2025) (accepted and forthcoming).

Melvin L. Otey, Toward a Broader Theocentric Environmentalism, 35 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1–32 (2024).

Melvin L. Otey, To Punish or Not to Punish: Juveniles Offenders and Murder in Aid of Racketeering, 75 Baylor Law Review 593–629 (2023).

Melvin L. Otey, Jesus's Objections During His Preliminary Examination and Modern Notions of Due Process, 35:1 Regent Law Review 91–134 (2022).

Melvin L. Otey, Does Motive Also Follow the Bullet? Transferred Intent and Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering, 89 Tennessee Law Review 377–417 (2022).

Melvin L. Otey, The Vexing Case of Venue for Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering, 125 Penn State Law Review 737–771 (2021).

Melvin L. Otey, A Paradigm for the Proper Use of Pre-Majority Conduct in Prosecuting Continuing Crimes, 28 George Mason Law Review 307–343 (2020).

Melvin L. Otey, Toward Improving Policing in African American Communities, 29 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 67–118 (2016).

Melvin L. Otey, Why RICO’s Extraterritorial Reach Is Properly Coextensive with the Reach of Its Predicates, 14 Journal of International Business & Law 33–65 (2015).

 Professional Publications

Melvin L. Otey, The Supreme Court Clarifies RICO's Extraterritorial Reach, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Winter 2017, at 11.

Melvin L. Otey, Transnational Organized Crime, Norwich Review of International & Transnational Crime, 2015, at 1 (peer reviewed).

Melvin L. Otey, 2D Circuit’s ‘Coextensive’ Approach to RICO’s Extraterritoriality, Civil RICO Report, February 2015, 30 No. 12 Civ. RICO Rep. 1.

Melvin L. Otey, A Primer on the Muddle Over RICO’s Extraterritoriality, 11 Business Torts & RICO News 1, 4–9 (2015).

U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Criminal RICO: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961-1968 (A Manual for Federal Prosecutors) (5th ed. 2009) (contributor).

U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Civil RICO: A Manual for Federal Attorneys (2007) (contributor).