Federal Standards of Review

Steven Alan Childress is the Conrad Meyer III Professor of Civil Procedure at Tulane Law School. He received his law degree from Harvard and a PhD in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from Berkeley, focusing on federal appellate process. Previously, he was a visiting professor of law at George Washington University. Before joining the faculty of Tulane, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced in San Francisco with Morrison & Foerster.

Martha S. Davis is the late Eugene Harrington Professor of Law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law of Texas Southern University. A law graduate of Baylor with an LLM from Harvard, she clerked for the U.S. District Court and taught previously at the University of South Dakota. Prof. Davis taught administrative law, labor law, and a seminar on appellate courts, and she wrote numerous articles on discretion, harmless error, and judicial review.