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Dr. Buckner F. "Buck" Melton Jr. is a clinical assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. His research area of expertise is judicial and presidential impeachment; he also is knowledgeable in the subjects of separation of powers and constitutional issues of national security. Specifically:

• he has consulted with several members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, on impeachment in the past few months and conferred with members of the House Judiciary Committee, including U.S. Rep Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chair, and Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., about the definition of impeachable offenses.
  
  
• he has appeared on C-SPAN2, CNBC, MSNBC, National Public Radio’s "Morning Edition" and CBS "Up To The Minute," has been quoted in the Christian Science Monitor and has written an op-ed column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  
  
• only four scholarly books about impeachment have been written in the past 10 years and Melton wrote the most recent one;
  
  
• he has attended impeachments in the past, and advised the U.S. Senate's Office of Legal Counsel in a recent impeachment;
  
  
• he serves as the UNC-CH law school’s information technology director and can discuss the importance of the Internet in these proceedings;
  
  
• besides earning a law degree from UNC-CH, he holds a doctorate in constitutional history from Duke University;