Steven Alan Childress is a professor of law at Tulane, since 1988. He earned a JD from Harvard and a PhD from Berkeley. He clerked in Shreveport for the federal court and practiced law in California. He is a practicing Louisiana notary public and a member of the Louisiana Notary Association. He is the co-author of the legal treatise Federal Standards of Review, edited two volumes on legal ethics, and annotated a modern edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Common Law.