Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture

The Childress Lecture, named in honor of former Dean Richard J. Childress (1969-1976), is a premier academic event highlighting a provocative and timely area of law each year. The lecture commemorates the contributions Dean Childress made academically, ethically and socially to benefit the School of Law.

The lecture involves a keynote speaker, followed by scholars’ responses in a panel format. The keynote address and the responses are then published as an issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal.

Recent past Childress Lecture speakers and topics include the following:

The 2008 Childress Lecture featured keynote speaker Sandra H. Johnson, Emerita Professor of Law and Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University School of Law. Professor Johnson's lecture "Still Crazy After All These Years" explored the rocky relationship among law, medicine, and ethics. Professor Johnson's profile is available here. To watch video from the lecture, click here.

2007
David A. Strauss
Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown
52 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 1065 (2008)

Video of the lecture and panel discussions is available here.

2006
Richard H. Fallon, Jr.
If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World
51 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 611 (2007)

2005
Carol M. Rose
Privatization—The Road to Democracy?
50 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 691 (2006)

2004
Drew S. Days III
Feedback Loop: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Its Progeny
49 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 981 (2005)

2003
William E. Nelson
Brown v. Board of Education and the Jurisprudence of Legal Realism
48 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 795 (2004)

2002
Thomas W. Merrill
Making of the Second Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Analysis
47 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 569 (2003)

2001
Harold Hongju Koh
A United States Human Rights Policy in the 21st Century
46 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 293 (2002)

2000
Jerold H. Israel
Free-Standing Due Process and Criminal Procedure: The Supreme Court's Search for Interpretive Guidelines
45 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 303 (2001)

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