[2] In 2021, Wilson became the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Intellectual Life at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
[5] Wilson argued that anthropology needed to go beyond the universalism/relativism debate and study empirically the globalization of human rights in specific locales.
[6] Wilson's subsequent work in the anthropology of law has analyzed the operation of national truth and reconciliation commissions and international criminal courts.
His recent book Writing History in International Criminal Trials (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was selected by Choice Magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" in January 2012.
[12] From 2009 to 2014, he was chair of the Connecticut State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights and focused on racial profiling in traffic stops.