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Education: B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Harvard University

Biographical Sketch:

Professor Childress is a professor of law at Tulane University, where he has taught since 1988. In 2007, he was named the Conrad Meyer III Professor of Civil Procedure at Tulane.  In 2006-2007, he was a visiting professor of law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

After receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School, Professor Childress clerked for the late Honorable Judge Henry A. Politz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced law with Morrison & Foerster, as well as the Brobeck firm, in California. Before joining the Tulane faculty, he did graduate work in jurisprudence and social policy at Berkeley while teaching law part time at Golden Gate University. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the procedural and political roles of judges and juries in constitutional adjudication. Professor Childress has published numerous articles on appeals, federal procedure, civil jurisdiction, and the First Amendment; his coauthored treatise, Federal Standards of Review (3d ed. 1999), has been cited by more than 330 courts, including four times by the U.S. Supreme Court. He teaches evidence, professional responsibility, comparative legal professions, and torts.

>> Bar Licenses:  California, District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court

>> Citation of recent article on federal civil procedure: 

Revolving Trapdoors:  Preserving Sufficiency Review of the Civil Jury After Unitherm and Amended Rule 50,

           26 Review of Litigation 239 (Univ. of Texas, Spr. 2007).  Its SSRN page is here.