Sarah N. Welling

Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law
College of Law Building, Room 253
Office: (859) 257-8326
swelling@uky.edu

Sarah N. Welling is a Professor of Law at the College where she has taught since 1981. Prior to becoming a law teacher she practiced with Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago, Illinois and served as law clerk to Judge Eugene E. Siler of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky (now the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a Coif graduate of the College where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal.

Professor Welling specializes in federal criminal law, particularly money laundering laws. She has served as an advisor to Congress on money laundering in wire transfers, as an advisor to the Treasury Department on bank secrecy laws, as a CIA consultant on money laundering, and as a team leader in a two-day operational exercise on money laundering conducted by RAND. She has spoken on money laundering in Poland, Croatia and China. She has been a visiting professor at the William and Mary School of Law, and has published articles in such journals as the Hastings Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Quarterly, and the William & Mary Law Review.

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