Judge Childs was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in July 2022. She has an illustrious career in public service, including serving as the Deputy Director for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation's Division of Labor; as a commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission; as a judge in multiple divisions of South Carolina courts; and as a United States District Court judge for the District of South Carolina.
Judge Childs holds an undergraduate degree in Management from the University of South Florida Honors College, a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law, a Masters in Personnel and Employment Relations from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, a Masters of Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Service from the University of South Carolina.
UND ACS is having our general spring informational meeting. Please come and talk with the UND board, find out more about our events this semester, and put in your recommendations for our UND ACS Spring ProBono project. Lunch will be provided.
Join ACS for a Beyond the Doctrine panel discussing Addressing the Peril: Seeking Better Legal Outcomes for Criminalized Survivors, a recent report published by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. The panel will feature Debbie Mukamal, Executive Director of the Center, Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center, and SLS students Wyndham Ermini and Anna Zannetos, who contributed to the Addressing the Peril report.
The conversation will draw on work from the Regilla Project, a long-running research and policy initiative that examines how survivors of intimate partner violence are criminalized, with particular attention to women incarcerated for homicide and related offenses. Drawing on original in-prison survey research and policy analysis, the panel will explore how core criminal law doctrines governing charging decisions, homicide liability, defenses, evidence, sentencing, and parole often fail to account for the realities of abuse and trauma, and what these gaps reveal about the limits of existing criminal law frameworks for addressing survivor-defendants. Lunch will be provided.
Please join BLSA and ACS for an exciting lunch panel featuring local Black judges from a variety of courts and practice areas as they share their unique experiences as Black judges in our judicial system.
Lunch provided as available!
The event is co-hosted by the American Constitution Society and Federalist Society chapters of Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Ohio Supreme Court Justices Brunner and DeWine will be speaking. The justices will discuss multiple topics related to state constitutions and judicial interpretation. Specific topics may include home rule, deference to state agencies, and lock-stepping.
Professionals in attendance can earn CLE credit by registering at the following URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerqZmsuPshAYn1mnNRn3Zmug9_LRYHDp1vj7dEgTQk0K0-aQ/viewform
Lunch will be provided for those that fill out the following form:
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Join us for a conversation co-hosted by ACS and BLSA featuring Fourth Circuit Judge James Andrew Wynn. Judge Wynn will share his reflections on his path to the judiciary and his experiences on the bench. This event will be a unique opportunity to hear directly from a sitting judge about his career and judicial service. Sponsored by Duke Law American Constitution Society and Duke Law BLSA. For more information, please contact Virali Patel at virali.patel@duke.edu or Jordan Lloyd at jordan.lloyd@duke.edu.
