April Walker
Professor of Law
Phone: (713) 313-4473
Email: april.walker@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Joined the faculty in 2004
Education:
J.D., Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX, 1985
B.A., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1982
Courses Taught
- Criminal Law
- Juvenile Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Trial Simulation
Biographical Information
- Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2016-Present)
- Associate Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2008-2016)
- Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2004-2008)
- Associate Judge for the City of Houston (2000-2010)
- Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas (1986-1987)
- Instructor of law 1991 - 2004
- Director of Legal Education Advancement Program (LEAP) - current
Works in Progress
Publications
- Racial Profiling-Separate and Unequal Keeping the Minorities in Line-The Role of Law Enforcement in America, 23 St. Thomas L. Rev. 576 (2011).
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From State of California v. Scott Peterson to State of Utah v. Mark Hacking Will More States Adopt Fetal Protection Law American University Washington College of Law-2009
- His, Hers or Ours? - Who Has The Right to Determine the Disposition of Frozen Embryos After Separation or Divorce?, 16 BUFF. WOMEN'S L.J. 39 (2008).
- The Extreme Consequence of Parental Alienation Syndrome - The Richard Lohstroh Case of a Child Driven to Kill His Father - Will Courts Move Toward Allowing Children to Use Parental Alienation Syndrome as a Defense to the Crime of Murder of Their Own Parent, 27 WOMEN'S RTS. L. REP. 153 (2006).
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Application of the Insanity Defense to Postpartum Disorder-Driven Infanticide in the United States: A Look toward the Enactment of an Infanticide Act. University of Maryland Law Journal of Race,
Religion, Gender and Class/Spring-2006
- Taking Flight: A Tribute to the Class of Texas Southern University 2005- Thurgood Marshall Law Review Fall-2005
Affiliations
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- American Bar Association
- Black Women's Lawyers' Association
- National Bar Associates
- Phi Alpha Delta
Service
- General Counsel, TSU Faculty Senate
- Chairperson, Student Faculty Relations Committee, 2007-2009
- Member, Faculty Appointments Committee, 2007
- Member, Academic Standards Committee, 2005-2007
- Faculty Advisor, Black Law Students Association, 2000-2009
- Associate Judge, City of Houston, 2000-2009
- Orientation Instructor, 2000-2008
- Assisted Troop 296, Boy Scouts of America in Fund Raising
- Supervised Law Students with Independent Research Project, Summer & Spring 2005-2009
- Professor of the Year, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2005, 2015
- Recipient of the 2005 Trail Blazer Award, Muskegon, MI
- Volunteer, Fallbrook Church
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