Charles E. “Chuck” MacLean, M.B.A., J.D., Ph.D., serves as Professor and Director of Professional Peace Officer Education at Metro State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Minnesota and teaches Constitutional Law at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
His teaching focuses on criminal justice ethics, constitutional criminal procedure, sexual violence, and criminal court systems.
Chuck previously taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Ethics, Trial Advocacy, and other courses at ABA-accredited law schools in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Indiana, and taught Police Report Writing and testimony for years at the University of Tennessee’s National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is author or co-author of multiple books and dozens of scholarly articles on criminal law, law enforcement ethics, and criminal justice.
Prior to teaching full-time, Chuck served for twenty years as a state felony prosecutor specializing in handling murders, child sexual assaults, and other violent crimes. He served for fourteen of those twenty years as the elected prosecutor for his jurisdiction.
Chuck regularly serves in multiple volunteer roles; he was appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court to the Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education, and serves by election as the Vice Chair of the Law and Public Policy Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
He also serves as Peer Reviewer or Editor for the Youth Voice Journal, the IPSA Journal, Sage Open, the Multicultural Learning and Teaching Journal, and multiple publishers. Chuck has filed over a half-dozen amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court.
