Steven Alan Childress is a professor of law at Tulane, since 1988, and also co-teaches the university's notary law class. He earned a JD from Harvard and a PhD from Berkeley. He clerked in Shreveport for the federal court and practiced law in California; now, he is a practicing Louisiana notary public and a registered notary educator. Alan co-authored the legal treatise 'Federal Standards of Review, ' edited three volumes on legal ethics, and co-wrote 'Louisiana Notary and Legal Forms with Explanations, ' as well as a detailed workbook for the state notary exam.