Donald Eugene Wilkes Jr. (July 30, 1944 – June 7, 2019) from Daytona Beach, Florida) was professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law.
[1] An authority on the law of Habeas corpus, Wilkes's work State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Wall v. Kholi 131 S.Ct.
[2] Wilkes is credited with the introduction of the term New Federalism in relation to criminal procedure in the United States in a series of essays in the Kentucky law Journal in the mid 1970s.
[3][4] Wilkes retired from University of Georgia School of Law in 2012.
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