About this Event
Edmund LaCour serves as a district judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Before joining the court, he served as the Solicitor General of Alabama, overseeing the State’s appellate litigation before the federal courts of appeals, Alabama Supreme Court, and United States Supreme Court. In that role, he argued three times before the United States Supreme Court and multiple times before the Eleventh Circuit, Alabama Supreme Court, and federal district courts.
Before joining the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, Judge LaCour was a partner at the DC office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he represented numerous clients before the Supreme Court, courts of appeals, and trial courts. Before joining Kirkland, he practiced at Bancroft PLLC in Washington, DC, and Baker Botts LLP in Houston, Texas.
Judge LaCour clerked for The Honorable William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Judge LaCour earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Birmingham-Southern College, his M. Phil. from Trinity College Dublin, and his juris doctorate from Yale Law School.
Free lunch will be provided.
Constitution Day is supported by funds from the Mark E. Brandon Constitutional Studies Endowed Fund.
Event venue & nearby stays
University of Alabama School of Law - Rm 140, 101 Paul W Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, United States
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