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Sooner Lawyer Archive Volume 2016 | Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2016 2016 Res Ipsa Loquitur Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/soonerlawyer Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation (2016) "Res Ipsa Loquitur," Sooner Lawyer Archive: Vol. 2016 : Iss. 1 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/soonerlawyer/vol2016/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the OU College of Law Publications at University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sooner Lawyer Archive by an authorized editor of University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING / SUMMER 2016 THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW HIRE OU LAW Get customized recruiting services from Oklahoma’s #1 Law School · Post jobs online for OU Law students and alumni · Identify qualified applicants specific to your hiring needs · Schedule interviews on campus, in your office or via video-conference To hire the best, go to the best. Ranked #1 in Oklahoma by U.S. News & World Report. For seven consecutive years, National Jurist magazine has ranked OU Law as a Best Value Law School. (405) 325-4717 | [email protected] Speakers engage students The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo on national hot topic Published by University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons, 2016 EDITOR JONELLA FRANK From the Dean DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Dear Friends, MACKENZIE A. DILBECK The OU College of Law has much to celebrate during a time PHOTOGRAPHY when the landscape of legal education has fundamentally ROBERT H. TAYLOR shifted. We have adapted and innovated and are enjoying HUGH SCOTT remarkable success. This can be seen in a myriad of ways. NORMAN PARTY PICS None is more important than the quality of our incoming class. SHEVAUN WILLIAMS Most law schools have shrunk in size and contracted in quality. BRITTANY JUPE We have maintained healthy class sizes, and this year we have GRAPHIC DESIGNER seen the number of students who want to attend OU Law rise HALEY FULCO dramatically. We are excited to welcome yet another class of high-achievers and are eager to equip and prepare them for success in the legal profession. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW One of the ways we do this is by providing unique programming designed to enhance the DEAN overall curriculum. This year, we welcomed many distinguished guests and in this issue of JOSEPH HARROZ JR. Sooner Lawyer, you will read about their visits. ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMICS For our lecture series, we focused on the theme of criminal justice reform, bringing in a trio of BRIAN MCCALL leading voices who provided distinct and challenging perspectives for our students: Professor ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH Tracey L. Meares of Yale University, a member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century AND SCHOLARSHIP Policing; Jonathan Rapping, MacArthur Foundation Fellow and founder of Gideon’s Promise; LIESA RICHTER and Dean Strang, best known for his role as one of Steven Avery’s defense attorneys in the ASSOCIATE DEAN AND DIRECTOR Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer.” I hope you enjoy reading about the impact of our OF THE LAW LIBRARY guest lecturers in our cover story on page 2. DARIN K. FOX ASSISTANT DEAN FOR STUDENTS Our second feature (page 6), spotlights another distinguished guest’s visit to the OU College SCOTT PALK of Law this year. Earlier this spring, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Flora D. Darpino joined students for a Lunch and Learn session. Darpino is the first woman to hold the position of Judge Advocate CONTACT INFORMATION General in the U.S. Army. She offered inspiring advice and insights for our students from her UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA many experiences of shattering glass ceilings as a female in the military. COLLEGE OF LAW 300 TIMBERDELL ROAD Our celebration continued this year with the induction of our fifth class into the Order of NORMAN, OK 73019-5081 the Owl Hall of Fame. Many of you joined us in March to honor four remarkable inductees who have devoted their lives to service. We were thrilled to welcome Bill W. Burgess, Jr. (’80), ATTN: JONELLA FRANK Justice Tom Colbert (’82), Jim Gallogly (’77) and Justice Noma D. Gurich (’78) to the Order [email protected] of the Owl Class of 2016. Turn to page 8 to learn more about each of them and their many (405) 325-5264 accomplishments. You will note in the OU Law Updates section on page 25 that last academic year also gave us cause for celebration when it came to our rise in the rankings and the many achievements Sooner Lawyer is published two times per year by the University of Oklahoma College of Law. This publication, printed by University Printing of our students and faculty. We are fortunate to have such a strong and engaged OU Law Services, is issued by the University of Oklahoma. 10,000 copies have been prepared and distributed at a cost of 53 cents per copy to the taxpayers of community. Thank you for helping make OU Law one of the nation’s great public law schools. the State of Oklahoma. Created by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a doctoral degree-granting research university serving Warmest regards, the educational, cultural, economic and health-care needs of the state, region and nation. The Norman campus serves as home to all of the university’s academic programs except health-related fields. The OU Health Sciences Center, which is located in Oklahoma City, is one of only four comprehensive academic health centers in the nation with seven professional colleges. Both the Norman and Health Sciences Center colleges offer programs at the Schusterman Center, the site of OU-Tulsa. OU enrolls more than 30,000 students, has more than 2,700 full-time faculty members, and has 21 colleges offering 171 majors at the baccalaureate level, 152 majors at the master’s level, 79 majors at the doctoral level, 32 majors at the doctoral professional level, and 35 graduate certificates. The university’s annual operating budget is $1.8 billion. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo Joseph Harroz Jr. Copyright © 2016 Dean and Professor Fenelon Boesche Chair of Law Pictured clockwise on cover are Dean A. Strang, Tracey L. Meares https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/soonerlawyer/vol2016/iss1/10and Jonathan Rapping. SPRING/SUMMER 2016 THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW Features 6 Lt. Gen. Flora D. Darpino: A woman of “firsts” inspiring others to follow 8 Order of the Owl Hall of Fame: Four alumni inducted in 2016 class 2 Criminal Justice Reform: Speakers engage students on national hot topic Inside every issue 14 Class Notes 25 OU Law Updates 36 Faculty News 38 Giving Highlights 45 Res Ipsa Loquitur Published by University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons, 2016 SOONER LAWYER 1 | BY JONELLA FRANK | Criminal Justice Reform: SPEAKERS ENGAGE Below Left Tracey L. Meares makes a point STUDENTS while speaking on “How Police and the Public Think About Rightful Policing” in the Kerr Student Lounge. ON NATIONAL Below Right Dean A. Strang (right) responds during the Q&A session with Professor Stephen Henderson in HOT TOPIC the Dick Bell Courtroom. 2https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/soonerlawyer/vol2016/iss1/10SOONER LAWYER Jonathan Rapping speaks about the role of the public defender in the criminal justice system. In recent years, the call for reformation of the U.S. criminal justice system has grown, bringing together individuals from different ends of the political spectrum who, for differing reasons, believe the system must be changed. States, including Oklahoma, have reacted to the call for reform. Inside and out of the OU Law classroom, criminal justice reform is a topic of interest for faculty and students. During the 2015-16 academic year, the OU College of Law hosted speakers who further sparked interest on this topic by highlighting different elements within the criminal justice reform movement. “OU Law was honored to welcome three nationally recognized leading voices in the area of criminal justice reform,” said Dean Joe Harroz. “Two of our faculty members were instrumental in bringing these three individuals to us. Their lectures were especially timely given the nation’s ongoing conversation on the Order of the Coif, had the pleasure community in the Great Hall of the the issue.” of guiding Meares to her many speeches Sam Noble Museum of Natural History and meetings. on “Policing in the 21st Century.” The first speaker visited midway through Throughout her visit, she met with the fall semester. Tracey L. Meares, During her October 2015 visit, Meares numerous groups of students as well. Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at spoke to a large crowd of students, Yale University, came to the University of faculty, staff and members of the public Meares’ teaching and research interests Oklahoma courtesy of the distinguished who filled the Kerr Student Lounge. center on criminal procedure and law visitor program of the Order of the She discussed two perspectives in her policy. Her writings on crime prevention Coif, an honorary scholastic society presentation, “How Police and the Public and community capacity-building are that encourages excellence in legal Think About Rightful Policing.” interdisciplinary and reflect a civil society education. OU College of Law Professor approach to law enforcement that builds Jonathan Barry Forman, who serves as Later that night, Meares also gave upon the interaction between law, culture, the secretary of the Oklahoma chapter of a dinner lecture for the university social norms and social organization.