Christina Thomas

POL 461- Constitutional Law I

Career Summary

Christina is a Limited Term Lecturer at Purdue University, West Lafayette where she teaches Constitutional Law I. She earned her bachelor's degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and her J.D. form Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law were she served on the Executive Boards of the Indiana Law Review, Moot Court, and Dean's Tutorial Society. She was inducted into the Order of the Barristers and participated on the school's National Health Law Moot Court Competition Team. Christina serves as a staff attorney for the Tippecanoe County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) where she advocates for the best interests of children alleged to have been abused and neglected. Her professional experience and relationships are wide-ranging, and includes work with administrative agencies, federal courts, and state court. Christina served in the Appellate Clinic and at the Indiana Court of Appeals, where she assisted with bench memoranda, orders, and finished opinions for public circulation. Prior to law school, she directed Continuing Legal Education (CLE) for attorneys at the Indiana State Bar. She is also trained as a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) and focuses her private practice on family and children's law, and estate planning and wills.

 

Publications

The Leadership Legacy of Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, in Leadership and Law Seminar, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (2018)

Fatigue and Legal Capacity: How Fatigue May Render an Individual Incompetent to Create an Enforceable Contract, in Neuroscience and the Law Seminar, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (2018)

Improving Access to Rural Legal Services Fitting the Solution to the Problem, in Program on Law and State Government Fellowship Symposium, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (2017)

Law Review Symposium: Implementing Gideon’s Promise: The Right to Counsel in the Nation and Indiana, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (2017)

Law Review Note: Third Party Consent to Warrantless Searches of Containers in the Home: Joint Access or Control as the Foundation of Apparent Authority, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (2016)

Could the United States Get Paid Parental Leave?, STUART & BRANIGIN NEWS & CASES (Sept. 8, 2017), https://stuartlaw.com/us-get-paid-parental-leave 

Undergraduate Thesis: A Study of Infinity: Alpha to Aristotle, History Research Seminar, Indiana Wesleyan University (2014)

 

 

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