A former judge and a rubric.
Chris Cox
Director of Trial Advocacy and Assistant Professor of Law, Campbell University School of LawProfessor Cox came to Campbell Law in 2023 after a 24-year Navy career that ended as a trial judge on the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary, where he presided over criminal cases and built training curriculum for judges across the Navy. He tried cases from both sides as prosecutor and as defense counsel, handling national security matters, sexual assault, and other serious felonies, and delivered advanced litigation instruction to the Navy's prosecution and defense bars. He has lectured at the Naval War College and taught trial advocacy at the Naval Justice School. At Campbell Law he leads the trial advocacy program, developing the curriculum and training both students and faculty.
Professor Cox engineered and built the platform himself, for the people doing the same work he does. Trial advocacy directors, attorney partners and mentors, adjunct instructors, and mock trial coaches carry the training load for the next generation with time that does not scale, and junior counsel and students pay for it in reps they never get. This program was built to make their jobs easier and to make trial advocacy programs stronger.