Donald Earl Childress III

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Virginia

Virginia State Bar

1st Circuit

2nd Circuit

4th Circuit

9th Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Maryland

Professor of Law (with tenure since 2014)

Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law

2016 - Current

Dean of Faculty (2017-2018); Associate Professor of Law (2008-2016)

Counselor on International Law

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.

2018 - 2021

Associate

Jones Day, Washington, DC

2005 - 2008

Law Clerk to Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Baltimore, MD

2004 - 2005

Duke University School of Law

JD/LLM (2004) | International and Comparative Law

Honors: magna cum laude; Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in International, Transnational, and Comparative Law.

Activities: Duke Law Journal—Editor-in-Chief (Volume 53); Moot Court Board—Hardt Cup Finalist. Recognized as one of the top two oral advocates in the first year class.

Oxford Brookes University, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

M.A. (1999) | Politics

Honors: Distinction; Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar. Only student awarded the highest Distinction for both dissertation and degree certification.

University of Virginia

B.A. (1997) | Religious Studies

Activities: Resident, University of Virginia Lawn; Trustee, Class of 1997; Chairman, University Judiciary Committee. Elected by the student body to manage the only student self-governed judicial committee in the United States.

Virginia State Bar

Member

Current

District of Columbia Bar

Member

Current

American Bar Association Section of International Law

Member

Current

American Society of International Law

Member

Current

ASIL International Legal Theory Interest Group

Member

Current

ASIL International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group

Member

Current

ASIL Private International Law Interest Group

Member

Current

American Society of Comparative Law

Member

Current

Institute for Transnational Arbitration

Member

Current

U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Public International Law

2021 - Current

Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Academic Council and Advisory Board

2017 - Current

American Law Institute

Elected Member

2017 - Current

American Society of Comparative Law

Director

2008 - Current