S. Alan Childress

Conrad Meyer III Professor of Civil Procedure

Phone
504-865-5829
Office Address
Weinmann Hall, Room 351-A
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Alan Childress

Education & Affiliations

PhD, 1995, University of California at Berkeley
MA, 1986, University of California at Berkeley
JD, 1982, Harvard University
BA, 1979, University of Alabama

Biography

Alan Childress’s specialties are the legal profession and professional responsibility, along with appellate courts. He also teaches torts and evidence and has written about jurisdiction, emotional distress torts, and the First Amendment.

He is co-author of a three-volume treatise, Federal Standards of Review (LexisNexis, 4th ed. 2010), and a founding editor of The Legal Profession Blog, which was named to the ABA Journal’s “Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.” His annotated version of Holmes’ The Common Law was published in 2010. Since 2020, he has published a series of books on Louisiana notary law and practice.

Childress, who joined the Tulane faculty in 1988, clerked for the late Hon. Henry Politz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, practiced appellate law in California, and holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from Berkeley. His dissertation analyzed the roles of judges and juries in constitutional adjudication such as defamation cases.