Student Bulletin OU Law OU

TheUniversity of Oklahoma College of Law

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, OU Law Summer Program guest lecturer, Oxford, England Excellence ■ Contents

A Sense of Purpose—David L. Boren ��2 The Study of Law—Andrew M. Coats ��3 Opportunity—Murray Tabb ��4 Attitude—Stanley Evans ��5 Community—Liesa Richter ��6 Your Future—David A. Poarch ��7 Our Goal ��8 The University of Oklahoma ��9 Life at the Law Center ��10 Academic Programs ��12 Program of Study ��13 Graduation Checklist ��15 Grades and Rank ��16 Course Listings ��17 Emphasis Areas ��24 A Diverse Student Body ��25 Admissions ��26 Tuition and Fees ��29 Honors ��30 Scholarships ��31 Awards and Prizes ��36 Clinical Education Program ��38 Law Library ��42 Office of Professional and Career Development ��44 Administration ��45 Competitions Program ��46 Profiles ��48 Alumni and Public Affairs Services ��67 International Study Programs ��68 Native American Law Programs ��69 Academic Journals ��72 Student Organizations and Extracurricular Activities ��73 Our History ��79 Important Phone Numbers ��Inside Back Cover Directions and Map to The College of Law ��Inside Back Cover Application Form ��Center Section Confirmation Cards ��Center Section ■ A Sense of Purpose Welcome to the University of Oklahoma College of Law! You are choosing a college with a tradition of excellence, which will be celebrated when the college marks its 100-year anniversary in 2009. The OU Col- lege of Law has one of the highest bar passage rates in the nation and an equally impressive placement rate following graduation. We recently dedicated a new $19 million law library and addition to the College of Law, which is spectacular. It is an exciting time to be part of the OU College of Law! As you become stewards of the law, you will realize even more the importance of the continuity of the law. The rule of the law is preserved only if each succeeding generation is committed to it. Upon your actions in the years ahead will rest the vitality of our own constitutional system, which provides a firm foundation for our society while constantly evolving and adapting as our knowledge of human needs and social organizations deepens. We cannot be a society founded on the rule of law without the faithfulness, integrity and stewardship of generations of attorneys, advocates and judges. We are President David L. Boren a government not only of laws, but also of men and Class of 1968 women. It is the moral courage of those who implement the law which assures equal treatment for all. With the passage of time, those who have entered, and will enter into, the legal profession are no longer members of a small elite group in our society. The legal profession now reflects our entire society and underlines the duty of all Americans to maintain the rule of law, each generation in its own time. As a graduate of the OU College of Law, I challenge you to cherish and preserve the law passed on by ear- lier generations and to improve its administration and broaden its meaning for those who follow.

Sincerely,

David L. Boren President and 1968 Law Graduate The University of Oklahoma

■ The Study of Law I appreciate your interest in the study of law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. This is a great law school with a wonderful tradition of excellence in legal education. During the more than 90 years of our existence, our 9,000-plus graduates have taken their places of leadership in government, business and industry, banking, the legal profession and the administration of justice across Oklahoma and the nation. The fact that the University of Oklahoma College of Law provides a first- class legal education for our students is demonstrated by the very high percentage of our graduates who pass the Bar examinations in Oklahoma and in other states across the country. Our graduates are highly sought-after by law firms, corporate legal departments and governmental entities throughout the southwest. A law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law carries great prestige and receives great respect. I can state these things from personal knowledge because I graduated from the College of Law in 1963 and have always been very proud of my legal education. After I returned from the Navy in 1960, I faced the same decision that you are facing now, which law school to attend. Dean Andrew M. Coats I had been admitted to several of the better known east Class of 1963 and west coast law schools. I chose the University of Oklahoma, and I have always been glad that I did. My law school classmates have been among my best friends lawyers who are skilled brief writers) all combine with a for all the years since we graduated together. Over the solid basic legal education to provide our students with 35 years that I spent as a trial lawyer, I had many oppor- an outstanding law school experience. tunities to compare my legal education and training In these pages you will come to know a lot about with lawyers from other law schools. I truly believe that our law school, our University and our community. We the education I received was as complete as any in the hope you will join us in the fascinating and challenging world...and the legal education and training we provide study of law. today is even better! It is also important for you to know that our law Sincerely, school is very “user friendly.” Our outstanding faculty and very able staff are dedicated to our law students. All Andrew M. Coats of us will do all that we can to help you succeed in the Dean and 1963 Law Graduate study of law and in your later career. Your success is our The University of Oklahoma fondest wish. Our small classes (more than 90 percent of our classes have 15-50 students); our magnificent law library (our library collection contains more than 350,000 volumes); our computer labs (we have new computers and a very skilled computer services support staff); our legal aid and criminal law clinics (students representing real clients under the supervision of real lawyers); our international programs (a summer at Oxford or a semester at universities around the world) and our new writing program (staffed by experienced

■ Opportunity Why consider the University of Oklahoma College of Law as the place to begin your professional career? There are approximately 180 law schools in the United States, each with varying programmatic emphases and reputations, yet you must choose which school offers you the very best combination of opportunity, education, and value. In my years of service as Associate Dean of Students and now as Associate Dean for Academics, I have spoken to literally thousands of students who have asked those important questions. Ultimately, many of those who decided to attend OU did so primarily for one key reason—the people. Our faculty, staff and administration are deeply committed to ensuring that each one of our students experience success in law school and beyond. All objective signs over the last decade affirm that success, as sta- tistically 95-100% of those who matriculate will graduate, pass the bar examination on their first attempt, and find jobs in the field of their choice. In short, although our admissions standards are very high, we do every- thing possible to help our students succeed. Some of the attributes that make OU Law distinctive and which help achieve that success include: all of our first year courses William M. Tabb are taught in a “small section” format by regular, tenured Associate Dean for Academics and tenure-track faculty; our faculty maintain an “open door” policy to facilitate interaction with students; we have a strong mentoring program available to all first year students through our Dean’s Council initiative and faculty advisors; and our professional career counseling center provides personal attention and guidance on planning and reaching your own goals. Our 11.8-1 student-faculty ratio ranks as one of the best in the nation. When choosing a school, it is also important to con- Schools. The students who gravitate to OU Law School sider its history as well as its future. The University of often are those who seek to contribute to the improve- Oklahoma College of Law will be celebrating its 100th ment of society and the legal profession, whether through anniversary in 2009. Our graduates have been state and pro bono work, participating in one of our legal clinics, national leaders in politics, industry, and law and are or taking an active role in one of the many service proj- located in all 50 states and 14 foreign countries. ects offered through our student organizations. We wel- Our recent theme, Generations of Excellence, reflects come you to OU Law and hope that you will become part our proud heritage and the great traditions of our his- of this heritage and share in our future. tory. For example, the Law School is one of the select schools nationally which qualifies for the prestigious Sincerely, Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers honorary organizations, and is a charter member of the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law William M. Tabb Associate Dean for Academics

■ Attitude Being a lawyer is about attitude—an attitude of service and an attitude of being a servant. A lawyer’s purpose is to advise or to represent some- one’s interests. In either case, the lawyer must be confi- dent in his own skills and this confidence must emanate as he or she performs her duties. This does not imply that a lawyer must be one who steps on others to get his way, but instead, it emphasizes a lawyer with skills—one who is highly trained and has a sense of compassion as he or she serves the client. The right kind of lawyer is highly competitive—not a winner because he or she beats up on other people— but a winner because he has skills; an in-depth understanding of the law; a built-in desire to be the best that he or she can be; and to provide the absolute best representation. The University of Oklahoma College of Law is dedicated to developing this kind of lawyer! We begin with your individual treatment as you apply to law school. We will know you, we will talk with you, we will advise you—even before you come here! We want you to visit OU Law. We want you to see our top-flight facilities, but more importantly, we want Stanley L. Evans you to see how you will be treated here. We will build a Assistant Dean for Students support system around you that will demand excellence, Class of 2003 but at the same time will assist you if you falter. We are a tough school with absolutely high standards, as demonstrated by our bar passage rates (97+ percent—first attempt) and our hire rates (96+ percent). When you arrive, we will demand that you meet the rigid standards required of a top-notch college of law. We are a compassionate and caring school too. This is demonstrated by our 94-percent retention rate. We will pay attention to you and your welfare—and put emphasis on dealing with you on an individual basis. We feel strongly that setting this attitude in law school will present a broad role model to our students about the kind of lawyers that we are committed to producing! Our purpose is not focused on just getting you into our law school to “fill a seat.” Our purpose is to produce the kinds of lawyers that will be leaders in the future of America. We welcome you to challenge us! We will challenge you into being the best that you can be. Positive attitude breeds positive attitude!

Sincerely,

Stanley L. Evans Assistant Dean for Students and 2003 Law Graduate The University of Oklahoma

■ Community It is easy to measure the tangible trademarks of excellence at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Our students boast top academic credentials from more than one hundred colleges and universities throughout the country. They have excelled in education, the arts, athletics, business, military service and in community service and leadership both nationally and internationally. The College of Law has a superb rate of retaining students to graduation – ninety-four percent of the students who matriculate stay and graduate. In addition to the first-year fundamental courses, the College of Law offers significant opportunities in the areas of Oil and Gas Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Procedure, Skills Training, Taxation, Intellectual Property, Environ- mental Law and Indian Law. In fact, our Indian Law Program is the premiere certificate-conferring program in the nation. We offer students significant opportunities to hone the practical skills every lawyer needs upon graduation through skills courses, our clinical program, our pro bono program and our extensive participation in national moot court competitions. All of our programs and courses are run by a diverse group of accomplished faculty and knowledgeable staff from around the state and the Liesa Richter country. After three years of top-notch legal education at Associate Dean for Admissions, the OU College of Law, ninety-seven percent of our gradu- Scholarships and Recruiting ates pass the bar examination on their first attempt (2008). Within nine months of graduation, ninety-six percent of our graduates have the legal jobs of their choice. OU Law students about career avenues and opportunities. In addi- graduates are succeeding in all fifty states and in fourteen tion to running on-campus interviewing for legal jobs, foreign countries. the Office of Professional and Career Development assists We urge you to look beyond these tangible trademarks students with interviewing skills and resume preparation. of excellence for the real secret of the OU College of Law’s Most impressively, the Office initiates tracking of the few success. It is the pervasive culture of community that we students post-graduation still in the job market to provide feel sets OU Law apart from any other legal education pro- all support possible in a job search. It is difficult to find a gram in the region. Even before a prospective student has law school that provides this level of support and personal completed an OU Law application, he or she will encoun- attention to its applicants, students and alumnae. It is this ter a welcoming and responsive admissions department spirit of community and caring that allows the OU College willing to devote significant time and energy to shepherd of Law to attract, retain and graduate ethical, top-notch him or her through the admissions process. During the professionals year after year. challenging first year of law school, OU students will We encourage you to visit our state-of-the-art facilities participate in small classes where professors take time to to observe this community atmosphere of which we are get acquainted with students and to provide them with all so proud. While some might think that the benefits of personal attention. In addition, all 1-L students are sup- community in legal education are intangible, I think you ported by “mentors” from the upper classes who can offer will feel them in the air as you walk our halls. We hope to advice and encouragement during that crucial first year see you soon! experience. At all levels of the curriculum, OU students benefit from a faculty and administration willing to listen Sincerely. and assist – open doors are the norm at OU Law. As students become ready to enter the job market, the dynamic Liesa Richter professionals in our Office of Professional and Career Associate Dean for Admissions, Development provide extensive programming to educate Scholarships and Recruiting

■ Your Future . . . Congratulations! You’re about to begin a promising future! You are about to become one of more than nine thou- sand others who have earned a legal education at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma since 1909. In a mere 36 months you will be one of the many proud OU Law alumni who are found across the nation and around the world engaged in the private practice of law, working in business, serving as elected officials, employ ed as public servants and educators, or using the legal education they obtained here in a wide variety of other challenging pursuits. Regardless of your personal reasons for coming to law school, your professional future will be shaped by your experiences here. The legal education you earn at OU Law will provide you with a solid intellectual base upon which your future business life will be built. You will leave here better equipped to meet the many challenges life has to offer, and help others do the same. In addition to the intellectual growth you will under- go, you will find your personal life changed. Your future best friends are here at OU Law. Among them are successful people just like you on their way to a winning future. Among them are tomorrow’s lawyers, judges, business David A. Poarch leaders, politicians, and educators. Some will graduate to Assistant Dean for External Affairs live and work in large cities for big firms or companies. Class of 1977 Some will follow the path back home to become civic and business leaders in smaller communities across the State around the nation. As a 1977 graduate of the OU College of Law I know these things from personal experience. My legal education has served me well in a variety of capacities throughout my professional life. And of the many friendships I have today, those that began here in law school are among my closest. Whether as an Assistant United States Attorney, as a lawyer in private practice, a businessman, municipal judge, or educator, the journey I began here has been end- lessly rewarding, and yours will too. Congratulations. You’re making a wise choice when you choose OU Law. And like all of those before you, you’re about to begin a promising future.

Sincerely,

David A. Poarch Assistant Dean for External Affairs and 1977 Law Graduate The University of Oklahoma

■ Our Goal

The University of Oklahoma College of Law, as part of the Andrew M. Coats Law Center, seeks to provide a dynamic intellectual community dedicated to teaching and learning, research and service in the pursuit of law and justice, as its students prepare for leadership positions in the state, the nation, and the world.

The Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Garden is a tribute to the first Afri- can-American to be admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Law. As portrayed in the play Halls of Ivory, Mrs. Fisher, represented by then-NAACP attorney, and later Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, took her fight for admit- tance all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in Sipuel v. Board of Regents. Mrs. Fisher was admitted, and later graduated from the OU College of Law in 1951. She later served as a member of the University’s Board of Regents. Ms. Fisher’s case has historical significance because her entry into the University of Oklahoma College of Law marked the first break in the graduate education segregation bar- rier in the South and was the forerunner of Brown vs. Board of Educa- tion for public schools.

“Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Thurgood Marshall, 1948-1951” Portrait by Evelyn Petroski. A gift to the College of Law from the Class of 1996.

“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor ■ The University of Oklahoma

Created by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a doctoral degree-granting research university serving the educational, cultural, economic and health-care needs of the state, region and nation. The Nor- man campus serves as home to all of the university’s academic programs except health-related fields. Both the Norman and Health Sciences Center colleges offer programs at the Schuster- man Center, the site of OU-Tulsa. 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. OU enrolls almost 30,000 students, has more than 2,300 full-time faculty members, and has 20 colleges offering 154 majors at the baccalaureate level, 160 majors at the master’s level, 85 majors at the doctoral level, 39 majors at the first professional level, and 18 graduate certificates. The university’s annual operating budget is $1.46 billion. The Uni- versity of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

■ Life at The Law Center

Success The benchmark of excellence in legal education is the success of our students. According to a recent survey, 94 percent of the University of Oklahoma College of Law students graduated, 96 percent obtained employment within nine months of graduation, and more than 97 percent passed the bar examination on their first attempt.

Value The University of Oklahoma provides a comprehensive, nationally respected legal education for a very competitive rate. One national publication ranked the College of Law in the top 15 in the country for “best value” in the category ABA Law Schools—Program Achievement Ratings. See Thomas E. Brennan and Don DeLuc’s Judging the Law Schools, 2004 edition.

10 Diversity With a place for every student, more than 150 undergraduate colleges are represented at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. The College of Law has the largest Native American student body of any public university law school in the nation. Our student body is split almost equally between women and men. Stu- dents are encouraged each spring to participate in Diversity Day at the College of Law, a day where prospective students from across Oklahoma are invited to the Law Center to explore and learn about our programs and curriculum. The diversity of course offerings at the University of Oklahoma College of Law is matched by the diversity in the student body.

11 ■ Academic Programs Degrees Offered ment of Health Administration and Policy currently offer ■ a 114-credit hour dual degree program leading to both the J.D. and Master of Public Health in Health Administration ■ Juris Doctor (J.D.) Degree and Policy. The objective of the program is to offer students To qualify for the juris doctor degree, a student must: at the College of Law who are interested in a public health (1) successfully complete all required courses; law specialty the opportunity to combine into four years (2) successfully complete one rigorous writing course of study the three-year J.D. program offered by the College during the second or third year of law study under of Law and the two-year M.P.H. offered by the College of the direct supervision of a faculty member; Public Health. The program is designed to offer the student (3) successfully complete additional work sufficient to who plans to practice law in the public health arena or to total 90 semester hours; enter public health directly, a thorough academic grounding acad emi c p r og a m s (4) attain a cumulative grade point average of at least a in both disciplines with emphasis on increasing the conver- 4.00 (C minus) in all work taken in the College of Law gence of these professional areas. and a grade of C on all work taken at other approved Under the dual-degree program, the J.D. course of law schools; study is substantially unchanged except that 80 rather than (5) complete the last academic year (30 hours) in resi- 90 hours is required and four courses (12 hours) are added dence in the College of Law; to the normal 40 hours of required courses for J.D. candi- (6) complete all degree requirements within seven years dates. A student is not permitted to enroll in courses in the of initial enrollment; and Department of Health Administration and Policy during (7) file an official Application for Graduation. The stu- the first year of law school study. The student will complete dent is responsible for ascertaining whether these 34-36 hours toward the M.P.H. in the College of Public requirements are fulfilled. Health, and ten hours from the College of Law course work is accepted as elective course work within the M.P.H. pro- ■ Dual Juris Doctor (J.D.) / Master of Business gram to complete the 44 credit hour degree. These elective Administration (M.B.A.) courses are selected by the student with the approval of an Oversight Committee comprised of one faculty from each The business administration requirements for the college. One of the law course electives replaces the Public dual J.D./M.B.A. degree are identical to the College of Health Law and Regulations course normally required for Business Administration’s M.B.A. requirements, with the M.P.H. Students must complete an M.P.H. Practicum one exception: instead of taking 18 credit hours of elec- in accordance with all of the practicum policies of the Col- tive business courses as normally required, the candidate lege of Public Health, and perform satisfactorily on the will take 9 credit hours from a list of business-related law M.P.H. culminating experience examination at the end of courses. The law requirements for the dual degree are the M.P.H. program. identical to the College of Law’s J.D. requirements, with The program awards both degrees upon completion two exceptions: (1) 80 rather than 90 hours are required; of the 114-hour curriculum. Students interested in the and (2) a student may receive no more than four credit dual program must be accepted by both colleges, and both hours in approved curricular activities. degrees are awarded during the same academic session. Persons interested in pursuing the dual J.D./ M.B.A. Those students who desire more information should con- program must make regular application for admission tact Dr. David Johnson, [email protected]. to and be accepted by both the College of Law and the Graduate College. For further information on the M.B.A. ■ Dual Juris Doctor (J.D.) / Master of Science or program, contact the University of Oklahoma, Price Col- Arts (M.S. or M.A.) lege of Business Administration Graduate Office, Robert- son Hall, 731 Elm Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma 73019- The College of Law permits students to pursue 2115, e-mail [email protected], website gradweb.ou.edu. unique dual degree programs through other colleges of the University of Oklahoma. Applicants must be admit- ■ College of Law / College of Public Health Dual ted separately to the graduate program on the Norman Degree Programs Campus. Students wishing to pursue such a program should contact the College of Law Office of Student Ser- The College of Law and the College of Public Health at vices early on in the application process to obtain a sug- the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Depart- gested course of action. 12 ■ Program of Study Pr og r a m of S tudy Required Courses for the Juris Doctor Degree A total of 90 hours of course work are necessary to receive the J.D. degree. Required courses are listed below.

First Year Total Credits Fall Spring Second or Third Year Civil Procedure I ...... 3 ...... X • Criminal Procedure I Civil Procedure II ...... 3 ...... X • Professional Responsibility Constitutional Law ...... 4 ...... X • Evidence Contracts ...... 4 ...... X • Graduation Writing Requirement Criminal Law ...... 3 ...... X Legal Research & Writing I ...... 2 ...... X Four courses from Substantive Core Course Menu: Legal Research & Writing II ...... X • Conflict of Laws • Corporations Property ...... 4 ...... X • Administrative Law • Bankruptcy • Family Law • Federal Courts Torts I ...... 3 ...... X • First Amendment • Individual Income Tax Torts II ...... 3 ...... X • Real Estate Transactions • Remedies • Secured Transactions • Wills & Trusts

One course from Skills Menu • Alternative Dispute • Resolution • Civil Clinic • Civil Pretrial Litigation • Criminal Clinic • Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation • Litigation Skills • Trial Techniques

■ Upper Class Elective Menus Director of Competitions. A maximum of three credit hours may be counted toward graduation. In addition to required courses, the faculty has iden- (2) Law Review and Directed Legal Research. A tified certain basic courses that are recommended or maximum of four hours credit may be counted toward desirable for all law students. During the second or third graduation in one of the following: American Indian Law year of study, each student must take at least four elec- Review, Oklahoma Law Review or Oklahoma Journal of tives from a menu of substantive core courses and one Law and Technology. A student may not receive credit for course from a menu of skills courses. more than one law review in the same semester. Substantive Core Course Menu Courses are: Admin- (3) Directed Legal Research. A maximum of two istrative Law, Bankruptcy, Conflict of Laws, Corpora- hours credit will be counted toward graduation. tions, Family Law, Federal Courts, First Amendment, Individual Income Tax, Real Estate Transactions, Rem- edies, Secured Transactions, and Wills and Trusts. Skills Menu Courses are: Alternative Dispute Resolu- tion, Civil Clinic, Civil Pretrial Litigation, Criminal Clin- ic, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, Litigation Skills, and Trial Techniques.

■ Supplementary Curricular Activities A student may receive up to eight credit hours toward graduation (four credit hours for dual degree students) for approved curricular activities. These include the following: (1) Competitions. One hour credit per semester is awarded for participation as a member of a moot court team. The team must be selected and supervised by the

13 ■ Early Graduation shall have “protection through orderly procedures against prejudiced or capricious academic evaluation.” The American Bar Association requires that law stu- The rules of procedure governing proceedings before the dents complete “in residence” at their law school a course Academic Appeals Board are provided in the Law Stu- of study that extends over not fewer than three academic dent Handbook. years for full-time students. An academic year is at least 139 days, usually divided into two semesters of at least 69 days of instruction. ■ Regulations of the College of Law and Some students plan to graduate early in December of University their third year or after two-and-a-half academic years. A The law faculty has adopted regulations govern- student may be permitted to graduate in fewer than three ing academic performance at the College of Law. The academic years by taking summer courses if the sum- complete statement of regulations is included in the Law mer instructional programs in which the student enrolls Student Handbook. Copies of the College of Law’s Code total 66 semester days over two or more summers during of Academic Responsibility are provided in first-year which classes are regularly scheduled at the law school. orientation materials. Other College rules and policies, p r og a m of study At the College of Law, summer sessions held in Nor- including the Regulations of the College of Law, Rules of man are scheduled for 33 days. However, the summer Procedure Governing Proceedings Before the Academic session held at Oxford in England provides only 20 days Appeals Board, Discrimination Policy, Racial and Ethnic of instruction. Thus, if a law student is attempting to Harassment Policy, Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assault accelerate his or her graduation in order to graduate after Policy, Consensual Sexual Relationships Policy, and two-and-a-half years, he or she must complete two sepa- Grievance Procedure, may be found in the Law Students’ rate summer sessions on the Norman campus. Handbook. A student cannot graduate early if one of his or her summer sessions is achieved by only attending the ■ Skills Classes Oxford summer session. Students planning to graduate To promote the development of our law students’ early and also attend the Oxford Program should discuss abilities to become immediately effective upon gradua- alternatives, such as intersession or other summer pro- tion, the College of Law has developed a wide range of grams, with College of Law Student Services. skills courses. These classes often are set up like labs or seminars where students may practice or develop specific ■ Code of Academic Responsibility techniques that will strengthen their credentials. Those who enter the legal profession must be persons Available Skills Courses: of integrity who merit at all times the trust and confidence of clients, associates, the public and other mem- • Advanced Legal Research bers of the bar. The conduct of students in the College of • Alternative Dispute Resolution Law is governed by a Code of Academic Responsibility. • Child Abuse Clinic Each student is to abide by the Code, which is represen- • Litigation Skills tative of the ethical standards of the legal profession. The • Civil Clinic complete text of the Code of Academic Responsibility • Civil Pre-Trial Litigation is included in the first-year orientation materials, and is • Criminal Justice Clinic also available in the Student Services Office. • Forensic Evidence Seminar • Health Care Organization Delivery and Management • Interviewing and Counseling ■ Academic Appeals • Trial Techniques The University of Oklahoma’s “Joint Statement: • Title Examination Rights and Freedoms of Students” provides that students

14 ■ Graduation Checklist Gr aduat i o n c he k l st

NAME: ______DATE:______Total Hours Completed that count toward graduation: (90 hours required)______Current Enrollment: ______Expected Graduation Date:______Hours need to graduate:______Courses Needed: ______

First Year Required Second or Third Year Menu Substantive Core Course Menu (At least 4 required)

____ Civil Procedure I ____ Administrative Law ____ Civil Procedure II ____ Bankruptcy ____ Constitutional Law ____ Conflict of Laws ____ Contracts ____ Corporations ____ Criminal Law ____ Family Law ____ Legal Research & Writing I ____ Federal Courts ____ Legal Research & Writing II ____ First Amendment ____ Property ____ Individual Income Tax ____ Torts I ____ Real Estate Transactions ____ Torts II ____ Remedies ____ Secured Transactions ____ Wills & Trusts

Second or Third Year Required Skills Menu (At least 1 required) ____ Criminal Procedure I ____ Evidence ____ Alternative Dispute Resolution ____ Professional Responsibility ____ Civil Clinic ____ Graduation Writing Requirement ____ Civil Pretrial Litigation ____ Criminal Clinic ____ Interviewing, Counseling & Neg. ____ Litigation Skills ____ Trial Techniques

APPROVED CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES (Maximum of 8 hours; 4 hours for Dual Degree Students)

A. Approved Competitions (Maximum of 3 hours). _____

B. Law Review & Directed Legal Research (Maximum of 4 hours) 1. American Indian Law Review _____ 2. Oklahoma Law Review _____ 3. Oklahoma Journal of Law & Technology _____ 4. Directed Legal Research (Max. of 2 hours) _____

TOTAL OF ALL APPROVED CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: _____

15 ■ Grades and Rank

■ Grades ■ Courseload The grades in the College of Law and the numerical grade point The College of Law limits the number of hours in which a stu- value of each are as follows: dent may enroll during a semester, thus assuring each student the opportunity for sufficient concentration on each subject. First-year A+ 12 C+ 6 students may enroll only in prescribed first-year courses. Second- and A 11 C 5 third-year students may enroll in a maximum of 17 credit hours in a A- 10 C- 4 regular semester and a maximum of nine credit hours in a summer session. Courseloads in excess of these hours must be approved by the B+ 9 D+ 3 Associate Dean for Academics. B 8 D 2 B- 7 D- 1 ■ Class Rank g r ad e s a n d Ra nk F 0 A student’s class ranking is available when grades are processed each semester. Other Grades: The following grades, which have no numerical value, Grades are available online at the Law Student Intranet link are not included in the calculation of a student’s grade point average: which can be found at www.law.ou.edu, approximately six weeks (I) Incomplete, (W) Withdrawal Passing, (S) Satisfactory, and (U) after finals. Class rank is usually available within seven days following Unsatisfactory. the distribution of grades. An “I” is given when a student is unable to complete certain requirements of the course by the end of the term for reasons satisfactory to the instructor. A student receiving an “I” should contact the instructor, who will indicate what must be done to complete the course. If a grade of “I” is not changed within one year, it will become permanent, and a student will be required to re-enroll in the course to receive credit. A “W” is received when a student withdraws from a course and in the opinion of the instructor is passing at the time of withdrawal. If a student is not passing at the time of withdrawal the grade imposed should be “F”. Certain courses are designated by the College of Law faculty to be graded on an “S/U” basis. Students do not have the option to choose satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading.

■ Auditing A student may audit all courses (as space permits) if the student is otherwise qualified and regularly enrolled. Fees for enrollment as an auditor are the same as fees for enrollment for credit.

■ Attendance Regular attendance in courses is considered indispensable. Each professor must adopt and announce an attendance policy that meets the requirements of the American Bar Association and the Associa- tion of American Law Schools. When a student is absent an excessive number of times, the professor may withdraw the student from the course, or the professor may lower the student’s grade (even to failing) in the course. Since the College of Law operates only on a full-time basis, students are expected to devote substantial time to the study of law. Excessive outside work is discouraged. Official interpretation of Accreditation Standard 304 of the American Bar Association states that a student may not work in excess of 20 hours per week in any week in which the student is enrolled in more than twelve class hours.. First-year students are urged to forego any substantial outside activities until they have had ample opportunity to measure the demands of legal study upon their time and energy.

16 ■ Course Listings

First-Year Required Courses exclusion of evidence, including hearsay and privileged communica- ■ cou r s e l i st in gs tions.

5103/5203 CIVIL PROCEDURE I/II 5323 PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (6 hours). Civil Procedure in state and federal courts; introduc- (3 hours). The nature of law as a profession; problems facing the tory survey of procedures by which questions of substantive law profession and the individual lawyer. Fundamentals of legal ethics and commonly are raised and determined; procedural and remedial responsibilities, with emphasis on the Model Rules of Professional background; law governing controversies in federal courts; details of Conduct of the American Bar Association. procedure in a lawsuit, including forum selection, pleading, joinder of claims and parties, discovery, the pretrial conference, disposi- tion without trial, trial before a judge or jury, post-trial motions and ■ Elective Courses appeals; issue and claim preclusion. 5702 AGENCY & PARTNERSHIP 5134 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2 hours). Legal principles concerning association in business by (4 hours). Selected issues, including: judicial review; the judicial agency, partnership, and other unincorporated forms. process in construing and applying the United States Constitution; federal and state powers, federalism and separation of powers; an 6500 AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW introduction to the concepts of equal protection and due process. (2 or 3 hours). Law and Policy related to agricultural biotechnology. Topics include intellectual property rights, domestic regulation 5114 CONTRACTS of agricultural biotechnology, comparison with European laws, and (4 hours). This first year survey course will explore the nature international agricultural biotechnology issues. No prerequisites. and enforceability of promises. Subjects include contract formation, performance, termination of contracts, material breach, remedies for 6500 AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW breach of contract, mistake and excuse for nonperformance, statute (2 or 3 hours). Addresses environmental issues in the agricultural of frauds, interpretation of contract language, conditions, assignment sector. Topics include wetlands, concentrated animal feeding opera- and delegation, and third party beneficiaries. tions, agricultural non-point source pollution, farm bill environmental programs (e.g. conservation reserve, swampbuster, sodbuster), and 5223 CRIMINAL LAW pesticide regulation. This course complements and deepens under- (3 hours). General principles of criminal responsibility and the standing of the environmental laws studied in the Environmental Law elements of common law, statutory crimes, and defenses. Emphasis is survey course. However, there are no pre-requisites for enrollment. placed on the subject of criminal intent. 5520 ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION 5122/5202 LEGAL RESEARCH, WRITING & ADVOCACY I, II (2 or 3 hours). Negotiation, mediation and arbitration: includes (4 hours). Instruction in the methods of legal research in various court-ordered arbitration, mini-trials, summary jury trials and other media integrated with legal writing and oral advocacy. Writings will formal and informal means of resolving disputes short of formal court include legal memoranda, briefs, motions, pleadings and other prac- adjudication. tice legal documents. 6311 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW 5234 PROPERTY (1 hour). Prerequisite: American Indian Law Review member- (4 hours). Introduction to basic property concepts, including: ship. Production of a written note or comment for the Review or other adverse possession; estates in land; landlord and tenant; concurrent approved activities associated with production of the Review. estates; nonpossessory interests (including easements, licenses, covenants and equitable servitudes); and real estate transactions. 5600 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW SEMINAR-SELECTED LEGAL PROBLEMS 5133/5143 TORTS I/II (6 hours). Introduction to basic principles of civil liability, with 5913 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY study of selected issues, including intentional wrongs, negligence, (3 hours). The development and characteristics of American strict liability, vicarious liability, defenses and immunities, compara- legal institutions and basic themes in American law and legal philoso- tive fault, assessment of damages, nuisance, products liability, mis- phy. representation, injuries to reputation, and alternative compensation systems. 5703 ANTITRUST LAW (3 hours). Federal and state antitrust laws approached on the ■ Upper Division Required Courses basis of type of conduct, i.e., monopolies; mergers; price control by private business; exclusive dealing contracts; fair trade pricing; agree- 5303 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE I ments not to compete; discrimination in distribution and refusals to deal; and unfair trade practices. (3 hours). The administration of criminal justice, including rights of accused persons; initiation of prosecution; preliminary 6100 ANTITRUST II examinations; and an overview of procedural steps. Emphasis is (3 hours). Prerequisite: Antitrust. Study of the Robinson-Patman placed on the privilege against self-incrimination, rules on arrest, Act regarding price discrimination; mergers and acquisitions; public search and seizure, and the exclusionary rule. and private enforcement of the antitrust laws; how one prepares an 5314 EVIDENCE antitrust case for trial, how it is tried and what happens after the trial is completed. The course is a mixture of academic matters and practi- (4 hours). Presentation of evidence; judicial control and legal cal matters (enforcement). reasoning in the determination of issues of fact; the admissibility of evidence, including relevancy; testimonial and real evidence; and the

17 5410 BANKRUPTCY 5602 COMPARATIVE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LAW SEMINAR (3 or 4 hours). Rights and remedies of debtors and creditors; (2 hours). The seminar will examine the differences and similari- bankruptcy including liquidation, reorganization, and wage earner ties between Canadian, United States, Australian and New Zealand plans; attachment; judgment execution; garnishment; fraudulent con- laws affecting native peoples. Participants in the seminar will include veyances; bulk sales and collection remedies including compositions students from the University of Ottawa Law School, University of and assignments. Saskatchewan, Aukland University, and Monash University attending via television. Professors from these schools will co-moderate. Paper 6700 BIOETHICS & LAW SEMINAR required. Federal Indian Law is not a prerequisite, but recommended. (2 hours). This seminar examines selected legal, ethical, social and policy problems posed by advances in biomedical technologies. 6321 COMPETITIONS Specific coverage and paper topics will depend upon student interest. (1 hour). Students who participate on a trial or appellate advo- Typically, coverage includes issues concerning human reproduction cacy competition team sponsored by the College of Law and directly and birth, human genetics, organ transplantation, definition of death supervised by the Competition Director may enroll in this course. and life and death decisions, and regulation of research involving human subjects. All students must submit a paper meeting the Col- 5920 COMPLEX LITIGATION lege of Law’s graduation writing requirement. (3 hours). This course covers class actions and other forms of multiparty litigation. It will examine jurisdiction and removal of class 5810 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS actions, class certification, and the management and trial of complex

cou r s e l i st in gs (2 or 3 hours). The study of the death penalty in the United cases. It will also address federal multidistrict litigation and federal/ States, including: the history of capital punishment; arguments sup- state coordination of complex litigation. porting and opposing capital punishment; constitutional issues under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments; the role of mitigating and 5533 CONFLICT OF LAWS aggravating evidence in guiding the sentencer’s decision to impose; (3 hours). The law relating to transactions with elements in more exclusion of jurors; use of psychiatric experts in capital trials; state than one state or nation, jurisdiction of courts and enforcement of post-conviction remedies; the scope of federal habeas review; consti- foreign judgments, choice of law problems, constitutional issues, and tutional challenges to the arbitrary imposition of the death sentence of the theoretical basis of choice of law, including an introduction to the those deserving of death; the recently-expanded federal death penalty; problems of renvoi and characterization. and international law and capital punishment. 6700 CORPORATE FINANCE SEMINAR 6313 CHILD ABUSE CLINIC (2 hours). This course will explore the legal principles involved (3 hours). Prerequisite: prior completion of, or concurrent in obtaining capital through private and public stock offerings and enrollment in Family Law and Children and the Law. Each student by issuing corporate bonds. The course also includes understanding enrolls for an entire academic year for three hours each semester. and analyzing financial statements, and the basics of valuation, as well as the examination of capital structures, debt instruments, preferred 6113 CHILDREN AND THE LAW stock, convertible debt and options. The course will explain the dif- (3 hours). Prerequisites: Family Law and Constitutional Law. ferent types of mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and tender offers, Children and their relationship with parents and the state in reference the fiduciary duties of corporate directors and officers, and oppres- to a child’s name, education and health care; neglect; abuse; termina- sion of minority shareholders. tion of parental rights; adoption; and new reproductive technologies. 5433 CORPORATIONS 6602 CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS SEMINAR (3 hours). This course provides an introduction to corporate (2 hours). The Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses; histori- law. Brief coverage is given to factors bearing on the choice of orga- cal and current relationships between government and religious, secu- nization, the process of corporate formation, and corporate capital lar, and anti-religious interests. structure. Close examination is given to the governance structure of the corporation and the fiduciary obligations of directors and officers. 6100 CIVIL APPELLATE PROCEDURE The course also addresses forces that serve to discipline directors and (2 hours). Rules of Procedure in Oklahoma which govern appeals officers, such as voting rights and the market for corporate control. and certiorari proceedings and the principles of advocacy in noncrim- inal cases. 6323 CRIMINAL DEFENSE CLINIC (3 hours). Prerequisites: Civil Procedure, Evidence, Professional 6363 CIVIL CLINIC Responsibility, and Legal Intern License. Clinical experience (3 hours). Prerequisites: Civil Procedure, Evidence, Profes- providing students opportunity to represent indigent defendants sional Responsibility, and a Legal Intern License. Student interns, charged with municipal, misdemeanor and felony offenses in working from an office located in the Law Center, participate in the Cleveland and McClain Counties. Students handle every aspect of actual representation of low-income clients in civil matters. Experi- the defense of a criminal case, including interviewing, investigating, ence is acquired through court appearances, jury and non-jury trials, negotiating, litigating motions and conducting the trial. interviewing, discovery, drafting of pleadings and appeals under the supervision of the clinical legal education staff. Students are required 5830 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE II to maintain an active caseload and office hours. (3 hours). Prerequisites: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure I. This course covers the criminal justice process from the arrest to post- 5530 CIVIL PRETRIAL LITIGATION conviction issues. It addresses federal constitutional provisions, and (2 or 3 hours). The study of litigation tactics and techniques the policies underlying these requirements and their impact on the prior to trial. Included are discovery, motion practice, witness prepa- roles of the prosecutor and defense counsel. Topics include: effective ration, settlement, alternate dispute resolution, pretrial conferences, assistance of counsel; prosecutorial discretion; preliminary hearings; mini-trials, summary jury trials, and other related areas. pre-trial motions; joinder and severance; discovery; exculpatory material; speedy trial; impartial jury; confrontation; plea bargaining and 6020 COMPARATIVE LAW guilty pleas; sentencing; double jeopardy; and post-conviction mat- (2 or 3 hours). A comparison of the corresponding features of ters. the American system of law and the systems of law of other nations.

18 6320 DIRECTED LEGAL RESEARCH 6400 EXTERN PLACEMENT (1 or 2 hours). Legal research and writing under the supervision (3 hours). This course allows students the opportunity to of a faculty member. The student must write a paper of sufficient observe and assist in various legal settings. Placement opportunities quality to be considered for publication in a law review or other publi- will include courts and governmental agencies. Mediation train- cation. A student may enroll in one or two credit hours with supervising and placements also offered. Students will be required to spend ing faculty member’s permission. at least 12 hours a week at their placement; submit weekly journal

entries; bi-monthly meetings with the clinical director; and submit cou r s e l i st in gs 6130 EDUCATION LAW a final paper. Enrollment in the Issues in Professionalism course is (2 or 3 hours). A survey of legal issues affecting education, required. including students’ rights, teachers’ rights, desegregation, special education, educational finance, and church-state relations. 5443 FAMILY LAW (3 hours). The rights, obligations, and liabilities arising from 6700 EMPLOYMENT LAW SEMINAR marital and nonmarital relations; divorce; marital property, alimony; (2 hours). This seminar provides an overview of state and federal and child support. employment law regulating the private and public sectors, including major trends in the applicable laws, and allows students the oppor- 5543 FEDERAL COURTS tunity to participate fully in both the presentation and discussion of (3 hours) Examines concepts of case or controversy; federal sub- relevant topics. ject-matter jurisdiction; supplemental jurisdiction; venue; removal; substantive law applied in federal courts; the relationship of Congress 6010 ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM and the federal courts; and the relationship of the state and federal (1 hour). This course covers England’s contemporary legal sys- courts. tem. Topics covered include the courts, the organization of the legal profession, the nature of the practice of law in England, access to civil 5610 FEDERAL INDIAN LAW and criminal justice and alternative dispute resolution. (2 or 3 hours). The law governing the relationship between the Indian tribes, the states and the United States. Topics include the his- 6523 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW tory of federal Indian law and policy; the federal-tribal relationship; (3 hours). This is a survey course designed to introduce students tribal sovereignty, federal supremacy and states rights; the jurisdic- to the common law and statutory approaches pertaining to envi- tional framework; criminal jurisdiction; civil jurisdiction; taxation and ronmental issues such as population, economic growth, energy and regulation of reservation economic development, including environ- pollution. The primary focus is on the major federal environmental mental regulation and regulation of Indian gaming; Indian religion protection statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act, and culture; water rights; fishing and hunting rights. Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and 6400 FEDERAL INDIAN LAW EXTERNSHIP Liability Act, as well as statutes regulating pesticides and dealing with (Up to 12 hours). This clinical program allows students to work the testing of hazardous substances. Course coverage also includes for one semester for federal attorneys engaged in Indian law litigation examination of the administrative process and the role of courts in and policymaking in Washington, D.C. Students have interned at the environmental litigation. Certain recurring themes animating the United States Department of Justice and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. development of federal environmental law are emphasized, including Interns are expected to participate in weekly substantive presenta- the role of public interest, economics, scientific uncertainties and risk tions and meetings on significant litigation and policy matters and are factors, and the government’s need for relevant information regarding required to complete two independent writing projects. the effects of pollution on the environment in order to regulate effec- tively. 5753 FEDERAL SECURITIES REGULATION (3 hours). Recommended: Prior or concurrent enrollment in 6150 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Corporations. This course provides an introduction to the regulation (3 hours). Federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination, of the issuance and trading of securities. Topics include requirements including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and federal regula- regarding the registration of securities, exemptions from registration, tions mandating affirmative action by federal contractors. and civil liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with special attention to liability for fraud and 6810 ESTATE PLANNING insider trading. (3 hours). Prerequisites: Wealth Transfer Taxation. Maximiza- tion, preservation, and administration of wealth and its tax-conscious 6700 FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE SEMINAR transfer through use of wills, trusts, future interests, and inter vivos (2 hours). Historical background of feminist legal theory and gifts. development of a constitutional standard for sex equality; theoretical approaches to gender in equality; coverage of specific topics and paper 6030 EUROPEAN UNION LAW topics depends on student interest but typically includes family and 1 or 2 hours). Oxford. This course covers the legal status of the intimate relations, crime, athletics, and military topics. The course European Union and the sources, implementation, and enforcement paper satisfies the Graduation Writing Requirement. of community law. Emphasis will be placed on the competition law of the European Union. 5450 FIRST AMENDMENT (3 hours). Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Individual rights of 6000 EUROPEAN UNION LAW expression, assembly, association and religion; permissible govern- (3 hours). Introduction to the legal system of the European ment restrictions and regulations in relation to activities protected by Union, with primary emphasis on the European Community that the First Amendment. makes up one of the EU’s three “pillars.” The course covers constitutional and institutional aspects, as well as selected substantive law 5820 FORENSIC EVIDENCE SEMINAR issues such as the free movement of goods, persons, services and capi- (2 hours). Prerequisite: Evidence. A study of technical and legal tal. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between EU laws aspects of the use of forensic science techniques in criminal law cases. and institutions and those of the member states. Specific topics may include forensic pathology, ballistics, forensic serology, fingerprint analysis, and the various tests for intoxication. Legal issues of admissibility and of limitations of the permissible forms of expert testimony will be explained in depth.

19 6170 GENDER-BASED DISCRIMINATION 6000 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (3 hours). Survey course on the law of gender, or sex-based dis- (2 or 3 hours). This course analyzes international treaties and crimination, including constitutional standards, family, employment, common law applicable to environmental and natural resource issues education and criminal law. affecting the international community. Illustrative topics include transboundary air and water pollution problems, ocean resources, 6180 HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION, DELIVERY & environmental disasters, disposal of hazardous wastes and trade in MANAGEMENT hazardous chemicals, ozone depletion, climate change, conservation (2 or 3 hours). Legal problems connected with health care orga- of natural resources with special attention to biological diversity, nization, delivery and management; problems encountered by prac- management of international rivers, and environmental protection ticing business or corporate lawyers in the health care field; private and economic development. This course examines relevant theoreti- and public health insurance; Medicare, Medicaid and other complex cal literatures from political science, law, and policy analysis, in order regulatory environments created by federal and state health care pro- to characterize the systemic problems of making and implementing grams. international policy to manage collective risks and resources. Special attention is given to developing a framework of analysis and to exam- 6190 HEALTH LAW ining implementation and compliance issues. (2 or 3 hours). The legal aspects of medicine; civil liability of medical professionals and health care providers; organization and 6700 INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEMINAR regulation of the medical profession; uses of medical science in litiga- (2 hours). This seminar has a broad scope to allow students to cou r s e l i st in gs tion; selected health sciences and public policy issues such as human seek expertise in an area of intellectual property law that most inter- reproduction, right to treatment, and mental health problems. ests them. Thus, the seminar deals with advanced issues in Intellec- tual Property rights (both theoretical and practice oriented) as well as 6210 IMMIGRATION LAW issues relating to intellectual property and trade. (3 hours). Constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for the admission, exclusion, and deportation of non-citizens who 6552 INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM TRANSACTIONS seek immigrant and non-immigrant status in the United States; refu- (2 hours). This course considers the legal issues and transactions gee and asylum law and policy; citizenship acquisition. relating to the exploration, production, and marketing of petroleum- the largest and most important commodity traded worldwide. Cov- 6820 INCOME TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS erage includes how countries settle competing claims to oil and gas (3 hours). Prerequisite: Income Taxation of Individuals. reserves, how host governments or state-owned oil and gas companies Advanced study of the federal income tax with emphasis on taxation contract with private companies to explore and develop oil and gas of the organization, operation, reorganization, and liquidation of cor- resources, and the contracts that parties engaged in such activities porations and business entities. enter into with each other. This course also covers the international marketing of crude oil and natural gas. 6822 INCOME TAXATION OF TRUSTS & ESTATES (2 hours). Prerequisite: Income Tax. Subchapter J of the Internal 6060 INTERNATIONAL LAW FOUNDATIONS Revenue Code, involving income taxation of trusts, estates, and ben- (3 hours). Public International Law, sometimes also called the eficiaries. “Law of Nations,” is concerned with the definition of legal rights and duties among nation states (including those individuals who act on 5463 INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX their behalf) and international organizations. This course offers a (3 hours). Structure of the federal income tax with emphasis on survey of the norms, rules and institutions that make up the interna- operation of the system through use of concepts such as income, basis, tional legal system and which regulate interaction among states, and gains and losses, realization and recognition, exclusions and deduc- between states and individuals. An understanding of the basic prin- tions. ciples of public international law is fundamental for anyone interested in taking further courses in international law. 5732 INSURANCE (2 hours). Life, health, property, and liability insurance, includ- 6000 INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW ing the nature of insurance, insurance interest, interests of the named (3 hours). The multilateral rules and institutions that regulate insured and others, subrogation, the insured event, exceptions, war- the conduct of states and other public entities as they in turn regulate ranties, representations, concealment, formation of the contract, cross-border commerce in goods, services, and the use of intellectual waiver and estoppel. property rights. The primary focus is on the World Trade Organiza- tion, with attention also paid to NAFTA, the European Community, 6520 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and other regional systems. Although the subject matter of the course (2 or 3 hours). The nature of the rights; acquisition and enforce- is of great importance to transactions between private parties, the ment of, and property and contract interests in, patents, trademarks, course (unlike the course in International Business Transactions), is and copyrights. not devoted to detailed study of private conduct. 6040 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS 6360 INTERVIEWING, COUNSELING AND NEGOTIATION (3 hours). This course will focus on the legal aspects of business (3 hours). Theoretical and practical aspects of interviewing, activity that takes place in two or more countries. It will examine the counseling and negotiation, including simulation of situations calling sale of goods and services across national boundaries, licensing of for these skills. Taught in a lecture-workshop format with a lecture intellectual property, foreign investment, and the resolution of inter- and demonstration on a particular topic each week, followed by small national business disputes. Although regulation of international trade workshops in which students take the lawyer’s role. (the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, etc.) is an element in the course, it is not the central focus. The course includes study of funda- 6400 ISSUES IN PROFESSIONALISM mental principles of international taxation and antitrust law. (2 hours). This course will involve discussions drawn from contemporary readings about issues presented in the practice of law; ethical dilemmas; and the judicial system. A final paper will be required. This course is required for externship placement. S/U graded.

20 5932 JURISPRUDENCE SEMINAR 6700 LITIGATION PRACTICE SEMINAR (2 hours). The nature and purpose of law, its relations to civiliza- (2 hours). This course focuses on several basic skills used in a tion and the social order; nature of legal principles; legal philosophies litigation practice. The course will approach litigation practice in a from primitive to modern times. practical manner and will be taught in a mentoring style. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: identify 6530 LAND USE CONTROL basic skills used in a litigation practice, understand the use and limi-

(3 hours). Judicial, statutory, and administrative restrictions on tation of various negotiation styles, identify principles of persuasive cou r s e l i st in gs use and development of land; zoning; restrictive covenants; subdivi- legal writing, understand the essential need for ethical legal practice, sion regulations; land use planning; doctrines of nuisance and emi- demonstrate the use of discovery tools, and develop an understanding nent domain; utilization of air space; and historic preservation. of the organization of a legal case.

6700 LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS SEMINAR 6400 LITIGATION SKILLS (2 hours). This seminar studies governmental control of private land (2 hours). This skills course utilizes simulations and observa- use through zoning, regulation, and urban renewal; (2) constitutional tions exposing students to aspects of criminal and civil representation doctrines that limit the government’s ability to take private property of clients. Students will perform exercises including interviewing, by eminent domain or regulation; (3) the importance to a nation’s negotiation, counseling, court hearings and other exercises. economic development of legally-recognized private land use rights; (4) recourse for purchasers unable to make the use for which they 5763 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS purchased a parcel of land; (5) private land use control via easements, (3 hours). Prerequisites: Prior or concurrent enrollment in Cor- covenants, and equitable servitudes; and other topics involving land porations. Recommended Federal Securities Regulation. The course use and property rights proposed by students and accepted by the provides an understanding of the issues arising in business acquisition professor. (and divestiture) transactions. Coverage is given to theories underlying acquisitions, alternative acquisition techniques and planning con- 6163 LAWYERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY siderations that bear on the choice among those techniques. (3 hours). Advanced course in law and ethics of lawyering, with primary focus on issues at the forefront of the modern legal profes- 6100 MINERAL TITLE EXAMINATION sion, worldwide, nationally and locally. Selection of specific topics (2 hours). This course examines the encompassing comparative will vary with student interest, but will likely include: expanding con- laws of Oklahoma, Texas, and other oil producing states. The course fidentiality exceptions and other revisions to the ABA Model Rules; examines the study of relevant law and preparation of a mineral title application to lawyers of federal legislation, including the Sarbanes- opinion. Oxley Act and Federal Trade Commission activities to relax anti-competitive ethics restrictions; multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional 5633 NATIVE AMERICAN NATURAL RESOURCES practices; innovations in delivery of legal services; lawyer discipline; (3 hours). After an overview of the history of U.S. native policy legal malpractice and judicial ethics. and the basic doctrines of Indian law, this course covers a variety of issues relating to tribal interests in and jurisdiction over environmen- 6400 LAWYERING SKILLS tal resources. Course coverage includes tribal rights to land; land use (4 hours). This course is team taught by members of the practic- and environmental protection in Indian country; economic and natu- ing bar and the bench, covering important areas of practice for the ral resource development issues (including grazing, minerals, timber single practitioner and small office practitioner. This course addresses and taxation); water rights; hunting and fishing rights; as well as law office management, ethics, civility, and practical drafting, plus international perspectives on indigenous resources. Throughout the practice pointers by specialists in areas of general practice in which course, students will consider the roles of the tribal, federal, and state the new attorney may be involved if he or she practices alone or with governments in resource regulation and use. one or two other lawyers. 6540 OIL AND GAS 6100 LEGAL METHODS (3 or 4 hours). Nature of property interests in oil and gas; con- (2 hours). This course is an introduction to the study of law. veyancing of interests in oil and gas; legal interests created by oil and Students will learn to interpret statutes and to analyze and synthesize gas leases; validity of leases; habendum, drilling, and rental clauses; judicial decisions. The course does not focus on the substantive or assignment of interests of lessor and lessee; rents and royalties; and procedural law of a particular legal field. Instead, students are taught conservation of oil and gas. the methods of studying the law through the analysis of a broad array of legal materials. During the course students will begin to develop a 6550 OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS vocabulary appropriate to the study of law, and will be introduced to (2 or 3 hours). Examination of contracts used in the oil and gas foundational concepts of our legal system. industry for exploration, production, and development of oil and gas properties and for investment; the nature of the relationships created 6700 LINCOLN’S CONSTITUTION AND THE CRISIS OF UNION by such contracts; the rights and duties of the parties; income tax con- (2 hours). This seminar will focus on the national debate over sequences and governmental regulation of such contracts. slavery, Union and human rights, including: the Dred Scott case and Lincoln-[Stephen] Douglas debates about the infamous Supreme 6100 OIL AND GAS PRACTICE Court decision; the Lincoln-[Frederick] Douglass debates about the (2 hours). This course is an examination of, and practical skills limited constitutional commitment to human rights in the pre-1868 approach into, oil and gas practice in Oklahoma. This course will Constitution; the antebellum constitutional arguments about human examine how oil and gas wells are drilled in Oklahoma and the impor- rights issues leading to emancipation and the Reconstruction consti- tant rules, regulations and statutes that govern many facets of oil tutional amendments; the South’s claim of a constitutional right to and gas exploration and conservation. From the filing of the “Intent secede; Lincoln’s claim of presidential authority to resist secession; to Drill”; to settling surface damages; permitting wells through the and civil liberties during the Civil War. Oklahoma Corporation Commission (“OCC”); the jurisdiction of the OCC; the OCC Rules of Practice; and additional developmental drilling; pipelines; horizontal drilling; negotiated agreements; unitization; underground storage; environmental issues and water law will all be covered along with an examination of the relevant case law.

21 6331 OKLAHOMA JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 6570 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS (OKJOLT) (3 hours). The first two-thirds of the course studies the terms and (1 hour). Electronically published law review dedicated to the legal issues involved in drafting, executing, and enforcing residential convergence of law and technology. real estate contracts, including obtaining and evaluating title evidence prior to closing and recovery for breach of title guarantees. The last 6391 OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW third of the course introduces certain basic commercial real estate (1 hour). Prerequisite: Oklahoma Law Review membership. transactions, including processes and issues involved in housing sub- Production of a written note or comment for the Review or other divisions, condominiums, shopping centers, and commercial leases. approved activities associated with production of the Review. 5553 REMEDIES 6100 PATENTS (3 hours). The basic purpose of this course is to develop an (3 hours). This course provides a comprehensive introduction understanding of the “anatomy” of a lawsuit in law or in equity by to basic concepts of patent law and policy. No technical background focusing on the legal evaluation of facts, the characterization of causes is required. The course addresses the history of patents as well as the of action, and determination of selection of the most efficacious reme- policy arguments for and against using patents as a mechanism for dial alternative available. The study of Remedies considers the com- inducing innovation. Students learn the basics of patent drafting and mon law, statutory, and constitutional sources of legal and equitable prosecution, patent claims, and claim construction. The class then rights and the means by which rights are enforced and violations of addresses in depth the central patentability criteria of subject matter, rights are prevented, redressed, or compensated. The course involves

cou r s e l i st in gs utility, nonobviousness, and disclosure. Other topics of importance analysis of the four principal remedies available at law and in equity: that are covered in the class include: the relationship between patents (a) injunctions and specific performance, (b) compensatory and puni- and other forms of intellectual property protection, particularly trade tive damages, (c) restitution, and (d) declaratory relief. The defenses, secrecy and copyright; the intersection of patent and antitrust law; adjustments, and limitations on those remedies are also considered as the role of the two major institutions responsible for administering well as the study of the right to jury trial and attorney’s fees. the patent system, the Patent and Trademark Office and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and the role of patents in the two 5750 SECURED TRANSACTIONS major industries of the knowledge-based economy, information tech- (2 or 3 hours). This course will cover Article 9 of the Uniform nology and biotechnology. Commercial Code. Topics covered include the establishment and perfection of security interests pursuant to credit sales contracts, 5740 PAYMENT SYSTEMS problems focusing on the interface between Article 9 and federal (2 or 3 hours). This course is an introduction to the laws govern- bankruptcy law, priority disputes among collateral claimants, default, ing the transmission of value through the economy. How do people and rights after default. Emphasis will be placed on developing an pay for things? The answers in the 21st century are complex involving understanding of and facility with the code’s statutory scheme. a blend of traditional paper based systems and new higher technology options. The course covers the checking system, the credit and 6100 SELECTED LEGAL PROBLEMS debit card system, electronic funds transfer, letters of credit, internet (1 to 4 hours). Subject matter and course credit will be included payments, evolving payment methods, negotiable instruments and with the enrollment instructions. the securities trading and settlement system. Substantive law covered will be Articles 3, 4 and 4A (and to a lesser extent 5 and 8) of the UCC 6400 SELECTED LEGAL PROBLEMS OF APPLIED NATURE as well as federal legislation such as the Expedited Funds Availabil- (1 to 4 hours). The subject matter and course credit will be ity Act, parts of the Truth in Lending Act and the Electronic Funds announced. Transfer Act (and implementing Regulations). Skills developed will be the reading of statutes, navigating areas where both state and fed- 6700 SELECTED LEGAL PROBLEMS SEMINAR eral law operate without complete pre-emption, creatively applying (1 to 4 hours). Subject matter and course credit will be included traditional law to novel forms of transactions. with the enrollment instructions.

6830 PENSIONS AND HEALTH BENEFITS 6000 SELECTED PROBLEMS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2 or 3 hours). Planning, establishment, and administration of (1 to 4 hours). Subject matter and course credit will be pension, health care and other employee benefit plans under the tax announced. and labor laws. 6700 SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW SEMINAR 5742 PRIVATE EQUITY LAW AND PRACTICE SEMINAR (2 hours). This course will familiarize students with current (2 hours). This seminar presents an opportunity to learn about issues in the field of special education law. Student will gain an appre- private equity funds, which have attracted increasingly large invest- ciation for the contemporary public debate over the nature of the ments and which may fund start-ups, buyouts, and privatizations. state’s relationship to students with special needs education in educa- Because of its focus on an industry, the seminar will address a variety tion. of legal disciplines, including the law of corporations, partnerships, tax, employee benefits, antitrust, securities, secured transactions, and 6100 SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING negotiable instruments. Though there are no prerequisites, students (3 hours). An advanced constitutional law, jurisprudence, and may benefit from prior or concurrent enrollment in courses touching appellate advocacy course. Students act in turn as law clerks, review- on any of the preceding subject matters. ing certiorari petitions pending in the U.S. Supreme Court; as lawyers, arguing cases currently before the Court; as justices, hearing those 6712 PRODUCTS LIABILITY SEMINAR cases and drafting judicial opinions; and as scholars, studying the (2 hours). Regulation and civil liability of manufacturers and dis- processes and theories of the Court’s decision making. This is at once tributors of defective products. Development of the concept of recov- a substantive course focused on key legal questions facing the Court, ery for injuries caused by products; survey of civil actions for harm a theoretical course focused on the rules and principles guiding the resulting from defective and dangerous products; study of problems Court’s decisions, and a skills course focused on appellate advocacy associated with hazard identification and the process of evaluation and opinion writing. of risk; government regulation of dangerous and defective products; review of Consumer Products Safety Act and current legislation dealing with injuries and remedies in specific areas.

22 6700 TERRORISM, NATIONAL SECURITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES focus will be on both substantive and procedural aspects of this area of SEMINAR law covering the theories, precedents and practice perspectives. (2 hours). This course focuses on a wide range of issues related to terrorism and governmental responses. Topics include the framework 6410 TRIAL TECHNIQUES of separate branches of government with shared national security (2 or 3 hours). Prerequisite: Evidence. An introduction to basic power; fighting terrorists and international criminals; and protecting trial techniques under simulated trial situations. national security information in a democratic society. cou r s e l i st in gs 6580 WATER LAW 6560 TITLE EXAMINATION AND ASSURANCE (2 or 3 hours). The system of water rights; riparian, appropria- (2 or 3 hours). Conveyances, with emphasis on the examination tion, and prescriptive rights; stream, surface, and ground water; trans- of abstracts of title to real property. fer and termination of rights; injuries caused by water; development of water supplies; federal-state, interstate, and intrastate conflicts; 6920 TORTS III “ADVANCED TORTS” water pollution control; federal and Indian rights; and federal water (2 or 3 hours). This course is for the major areas of tort law not resource problems. covered in the first year torts course-primarily economic [business] torts, interference with family relationships, rights of privacy and pub- 6843 WEALTH TRANSFER TAXATION licity, remedies for misuse of legal process [malicious prosecution and (3 hours). Federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer abuse of process], and interference with common law civil rights. The taxes, applicable to gratuitous transfers. economic or business torts, which take up about half of the course, include interference with business, interference with contracts, unfair 5470 WILLS & TRUSTS competition, injurious falsehood, common law rights to literary and (3 or 4 hours). Intestate succession; execution, interpretation, commercial creations and ideas [common law intellectual property], amendment, revocation and contest of wills; rights of decedent’s fam- and trade secrets. ily; will substitutes and the avoidance of probate; creation, validity, funding, amendment and termination of trusts and the fiduciary obli- 6100 TRADEMARKS gation. (2 or 3 hours). This course provides in-depth treatment of law and practice related to trademarks and unfair competition including complex areas like trade dress, dilution and cyber squatting. The

23 ■ Emphasis Areas

The University of Oklahoma College of Law offers a comprehensive and diverse curriculum. The following information provides general guidance for students who may be interested in emphasizing particular areas in their law studies.

Business, Commercial and Constitutional Law International and Skills, Clinical and Trial Real Estate Criminal Procedure I & II Comparative Law Practice Administrative Law Employment Law Seminar Comparative Indigenous Advanced Legal Research Agency and Partnership Law Equal Employment Peoples Law Seminar Administrative Law Antitrust I Opportunity Comparative Law Alternate Dispute Resolution Antitrust II Federal Courts Conflict of Laws Capital Punishment and the Bankruptcy Federal Indian Law European Union Law Judicial Process em p h as i s a re Contracts First Amendment International Business Child Abuse Clinic Corporate Finance Seminar Gender-Based Discrimination Transactions Children and the Law Corporations Health Law International Intellectual Civil Clinic Employment Law Seminar International Human Rights Property Transaction Litigation Skills Income Taxation of Jurisprudence Seminar International Environmental Civil Pretrial Litigation Corporations Supreme Court Decision Law Competitions Insurance Law Making International Law Foundations Complex Litigation International Business International Petroleum Conflict of Laws Environmental and Transactions Transactions Criminal Defense Clinic Natural Resources Payment Systems International Trade Law Extern Placement Land Use & Property Rights Administrative Law Immigration Law (including Judicial Seminar Agricultural Environmental Jurisprudence Seminar Internships) Mergers and Acquisitions Law Selected Problems in Law Federal Courts Private Equity Law Seminar Agricultural Biotechnology Forensic Evidence Seminar Real Estate Transactions Law Native American Law Interviewing, Counseling and Secured Transactions Environmental Law American Indian Law Review Negotiation Pensions and Health Benefits Federal Courts Comparative Indigenous Lawyering Skills International Environmental Peoples Law Seminar Lawyering in 21st Century Criminal Law and Law Remedies Procedure Federal Indian Law International Petroleum Federal Indian Law Externship Title Examination Capital Punishment and the Transactions Land Use Control Trial Techniques Land Use and Property Rights Judicial Process Native American Natural Tax & Trusts Law Child Abuse Clinic Land Use Control Resources Civil Appellate Procedure Mineral Title Examination Tribal Courts and Tribal Law Administrative Law Criminal Defense Clinic Seminar Seminar Advanced Trusts Criminal Law Oil and Gas Corporate Finance Litigation Skills Oil and Gas Contracts Estate Planning Criminal Procedure I & II Oil and Gas Practice Income Tax of Trusts and Forensic Evidence Seminar Property Estates Interviewing, Counseling and Water Law Income Taxation of Negotiation Corporations Intellectual Property Law Terrorism, National Security, Individual Income Tax and Civil Liberties Seminar Agricultural Biotechnology International Business Trial Techniques Law Transactions Antitrust I Pensions and Employee Constitutional and Public Antitrust II Benefit Plans Interest Law Intellectual Property Law Wealth Transfer Tax Administrative Law International Intellectual Wills and Trusts Advanced Constitutional Law Property Seminar Pensions & Health Benefits Church-State Relations Patents Communications and Law of Torts III (Advanced Torts) Torts Seminar Trademarks Comparative Law Comparative Indigenous Peoples Law Seminar

24 ■ A Diverse Student Body

From California to New York, Michigan to Texas and everywhere in between, the University of Oklahoma College of Law attracts the best students to this challenging and rewarding program. More than 150 undergraduate institutions are represented in the current student body. The following list represents a current sample of the many fine baccalaureate programs our student body calls their alma mater.

Abilene Christian University George Mason University Agnes Scott College Georgetown University Air Force Academy University of Glasgow University of Alaska Gonzaga University Appalachian State University Harding University Arizona State University Haverford College University of Arkansas Hendrix College Austin College University of Houston Baylor University Howard Payne University Northern Arizona University University of Tennessee Benedictine College University of Illinois University of Northern Iowa University of Texas - Arlington Bethany College University of Iowa University of North Texas University of Texas - Austin Boise State College Indiana University- Northwestern University University of Texas - Dallas Boston College Bloomingdale Oberlin College University of Texas-San Boston University James Madison University Ohio University Antonio Brigham Young University Johns Hopkins University University of Oklahoma University of Texas-Tyler University of CA - Berkeley University of Kansas Oklahoma Baptist University Texas A & M University University of CA - San Diego Kansas State University Oklahoma Christian Texas Christian University University of CA - Santa University of Kentucky University Texas Tech University Barbara Knox College Oklahoma City University Trinity University California State University Langston University Oklahoma State University Tulane University Carnegie-Mellon College LaSalle University Oral Roberts University University of Tulsa Centenary University Louisiana State University University of Oregon United States Military Claremont McKenna College Louisiana Tech University Oregon State University Academy College of Santa Fe Loyola University Peking University - China Utah State University Colorado College University of Maine Pepperdine University Vanderbilt University University of Colorado Marist College University of Pittsburgh University of Vermont Colorado State University University of Maryland Pittsburgh State University Villanova University Colorado School of Mines University of Michigan Princeton University University of Virginia Columbia College Michigan State University Puget Sound University Washburn University Cornell University-New York Middlebury College Purdue University Washington University University of Dallas Millsaps College Regents College Washington & Lee University Dallas Baptist University University of Minnesota Rice University Weber State University Dartmouth College University of Missouri St. Catherine University Western Kentucky University University of Dayton Moscow State Institute-Russia St. Olaf College West Texas A & M University University of Denver Mount Holyoke College San Diego State University Westminster College Depauw University University of Nebraska University of San Francisco Wichita State University Drury College University of New Mexico Sam Houston State University Wofford College Duke University New Mexico State University Southern Methodist University College of William and Mary Eastern Michigan University North Texas University Southern Nazarene University Willamette University Eckerd College University of Nevada - Las University of South Florida University of Wisconsin Emory University Vegas University of Southern Wright State University University of Florida Norfolk State University California Yale University University of Georgia University of North Carolina Stanford University 25 ■ Admissions

■ Admissions Requirements • To be eligible for admission, applicants must have graduated from an accredited college or university with a baccalaureate degree prior to matriculation at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. • All applicants must take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). For a registration packet for the LSAT, contact the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), at LSAC, Box 2000, Newtown, PA 18940, or call (215) 968-1001, or at http://www.lsac .org. LSAT registration packets may also be obtained at any law school or from a pre-law advisor at your university.

ad mi ss i o n Applicants must take the LSAT no later than February of the year in which the applicant is seeking admission. The Uni- versity of Oklahoma College of Law will request applicants’ LSAT scores from LSAC. • Each applicant must register with the Law School Data Assembly Service.

■ Law School Data Assembly Service The University of Oklahoma College of Law utilizes the services of the Law School Data Assembly Services (LSDAS) as a clearinghouse to provide a report and summary of each applicant’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional school transcripts, Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores, and letters of recommendation. Registration materials for LSDAS are included in your registration for the LSAT. More information is available by contacting the Law School Admission Council at [email protected] or by calling (215) 968-1001. The LSAC website address is http://www.lsac.org

■ Application Procedure The College of Law utilizes a rolling admissions process. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as early as possible, as admissions decisions are made on an ongoing basis. To be considered for admission, potential applicants should submit the following to the University of Oklahoma College of Law Admissions Office by March 15 of the year in which admission is sought. Applications received after March 15 are accepted only at the discretion of the Admissions Commit- tee.

Applicants Must Submit: • A completed copy of the University of Oklahoma College of Law Application For Admission (center page of bulletin) and all related and supporting materials • A $50.00 nonrefundable application and processing fee payable to “The University of Oklahoma” • Applicants are highly encouraged to apply online at our Web site: http://www.law.ou.edu

■ Application Categories • Fall Admission. The first year entering class commences in the fall semester, beginning in late August.

• Early Arrival Program (EAP). In addition to the fall class, the College of Law also offers admission to a select group of students commencing in the summer term which starts in mid-May. Students selected for this opportunity participate in an intensive program designed to facilitate their entry into the fall class. Applicants may apply for consideration for both fall admission and the EAP Program.

These students will be identified by the Admissions Committee on the basis of factors in addition to the GPA and LSAT, which demonstrate that the applicants are capable of success in the study and practice of law. These factors may include, but are not limited to, significant improvement in scholastic record, significant achievement in scholastic activities, hardship or disadvantages, and other factors that may be identified by the Committee (see Admissions Crite- ria).

Students in the EAP are required to complete five or six hours of regular law course work during the summer session prior to the fall semester for which admission is sought.

26 • Transfer with Advanced Standing To be eligible for admission to the College of Law with advanced standing, transfer applicants must have attended an ABA-accredited law school. Students will complete one full year of study before being admitted. Admission for transfer is based upon law school GPA, class standing, and various other factors. Transfer applicants must submit: • A completed copy of the University of Oklahoma College of Law Application for Admission and all related and supporting materials;

• A copy of your LSAT scores (which will be requested by the College of Law from LSDAS); ad mi ss i o n • A transcript from all law schools attended; • A letter from the Registrar or Dean indicating that the transfer applicant is in good standing and eligible to continue, including class rank through the end of the last semester attended; • A personal statement indicating reasons for wanting the transfer; • A $50.00 non-refundable application fee. • Transfer applicants are encouraged to apply online at our Web site: http://www.law.ou.edu Transfer applications must be submitted by June 1, for the fall semester and November 1, for the spring semester. Students applying for the fall semester are notified by mid-July. Spring transfer students are notified by early December. Appli- cants who have been dismissed from another law school for scholarly deficiency or serious academic misconduct will not be considered for admission.

■ Admissions Criteria The Admissions Committee exercises its best professional judgment to select for admission to the regular fall class and the Early Admission Program (EAP), people who have the aptitude and intellectual capacity to excel in the study of law. To achieve the highest standards of academic excellence, the Committee places significant emphasis on the applicant’s academic achievement, as demonstrated principally by undergraduate grade point averages and the applicant’s aptitude for the study of law as shown by his or her scores on the LSAT. In order to ensure the educational benefits of a diverse and active class, the Admissions Committee evaluates applicants on the basis of many factors beyond test scores and grade point averages. Those factors may include, but are not limited to: extracurricular activities; unique work or service experience; demonstrated compassion or leadership potential; a history of overcoming hardship or disadvantage; maturity; exceptional talents or skills; trends or improvement in academic performance; success in a challenging undergraduate environment; graduate school performance; and other factors which may be identified at the discretion of the Committee. Applicants may, at their discretion, also indicate any circumstances that they believe may have adversely affected their academic performance, including but not limited to: experiencing some hardship or disadvantage (for example, social, cultural, economic, language, educational, physical), family crisis, excessive employment, medical condition, or military service. A comprehensive personal statement is an essential part of the application process, which allows applicants an opportunity to provide the Admissions Com- mittee with any relevant factors materially bearing on the consideration of their candidacy. A resume is also recommended. Liesa Richter, Associate Dean for Admissions, Scholarships and Recruiting

27 28 ■ Tuition and Fees A financial obligation is incurred at the time a student elects to register. Tuition and fees may be paid from the first day of classes or students may elect to participate in the Fee Payment Plan. The Bursar’s Office mails tuition statements two tu i t o n a d f ee s weeks after the start of each semester. The tuition and fees listed below are those which are in effect for the Fall 2008 semester, and are subject to change based upon decisions by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

TUITION Resident per credit hour $407.25 Non-Resident per credit hour $738.20

FEES* Flat Fee (charged once per semester) $101.50 Per Hour Credit Fee (multiply times number $144.85 of hours registered, per semester)

TOTAL TUITION &FEES Semester Costs Annual Costs (15 hours) (30 hours) Resident: Tuition $6,108.75 $12,217.50 Fees $2,274.25 $ 4,548.50 Total $8,383.00 $16,766.00

Non-Resident: Tuition $11,073.00 $22,146.00 Fees $ 2,274.25 $ 4,548.50 Total $13,347.25 $26,694.50

■ Financial Assistance Need-based financial aid is awarded by the Office of Financial Aid Services, 1000 Asp Ave., Room 216, Buchanan Hall, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-4076, (405) 325-4521, e-mail: [email protected] The University of Oklahoma’s Title IV Institutional Code is 003184. By completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), students will be considered for all types of need-based aid and merit-based scholarships by the main campus Financial Aid office. In addition to the University program, the Scholarship Committee at the College of Law administers a separate group of merit and need- based scholarships and awards. (Please see sections on Scholarships and Awards and Prizes.)

■ Oklahoma State Regents Refund Policy The refund policy with respect to fees and tuition collected from students at institutions shall be as follows: Withdrawal from the Institution • A 100 percent refund will be granted for students withdrawing from the institution during the first two weeks of a regular semester or during the first week of a summer term. • Students withdrawing after the second week (10 class days) of a regular semester or after one week (five class days) of a summer term are not eligible for a refund. Add/Drop Period • Students are permitted to add courses during the f irst week of the semester. Students may drop courses with 100% refund during the first two weeks of a semester. • Refunds will not be made for courses dropped after the defined add/drop period.

■ Residency Classification • Students are classified as resident or non-resident based on information provided on the application for admission. This classification makes a difference in the cost of attending the OU College of Law. Applicants may be required to submit evidence to substantiate their claim to resident classification. • If you are a member of the armed forces stationed in Oklahoma or a military dependent of Oklahoma-based personnel, you are eligible for in-state tuition through a non-resident tuition waiver. If you have questions concerning your residency, contact the University of Oklahoma Main Campus Office of Admissions at (405) 325-2251. 29 ■ Honors ■ Honors Degrees The College of Law bestows three degrees with honors. “Highest Honors” is conferred on students who graduate in the top 5 percent of the class, “Honors” on students graduating in the top 15 percent and “Distinction” on students graduating in the top 25 percent who possess a cumulative grade point average of not less than 8.00. ■ Academic Achievement Awards

H O N R S This award is given to the student making the top grade in each class as designated by the professor. Student may request a certificate if they qualify. ■ Dean’s Honor Roll The Dean’s Honor Roll includes all students who earn a grade point average of not less than a “B” (8.00/12.00 scale) and who are enrolled in at least 12 credit hours, nine of which are letter-graded courses. Students in a dual degree program must earn a grade point average of 8.00 or better in at least nine hours of graded work in the College of Law and be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours. The required number of credit hours does not include courses the student is repeating or courses taken to eliminate a grade of “I”. Students making the Dean’s Honor Roll may request a certificate each semester they qualify. ■ Dean’s Award for Advocacy This award was established to recognize outstanding performance and leadership in oral advocacy at the College of Law. New members are chosen annually based upon their performance as a member of a moot court team representing the College of Law. ■ The Order of the Coif The Order of the Coif is a national law school honorary society founded to encourage scholarship and to advance the ethical standards of the profession. The Oklahoma chapter was chartered in 1925. The prestige of the Order of the Coif is similar to that of Phi Beta Kappa, the undergraduate honorary society. The Oklahoma chapter may elect each fall from the graduating class — which includes all those graduating during the fall, spring and summer terms — those graduates who rank in the top 10 percent academically. Only grades achieved in the University of Oklahoma College of Law will be counted in computing rank. At least 75 percent of the OU College of Law work must have been in graded courses. In addition, a candidate must have completed successfully 60 hours in the OU College of Law. Each candidate elected to membership must be thought worthy of the honor in the opinion of the voting members of the Oklahoma chapter. ■ The Order of Barristers Membership in the Order of Barristers is based upon outstanding performance in oral advocacy at the College of Law. New members are chosen annually by the law faculty. Members are chosen from outstanding participants in national trial, appellate and counseling competitions. ■ American Inns of Court The University of Oklahoma is part of a unique program dedicated to promoting continuing improvement of the skills, ethics, and professionalism of trial and appellate advocates in an atmosphere patterned loosely after the English Inns of Court. Each Inn is composed of a cross-section of the legal community and includes judges, lawyers, law teachers, and law students. The lawyers who participate range from some of the most outstanding attorneys in the state to lawyer pupils with no more than four years’ experience. Third year law students have the opportunity to participate in this program. Students are selected from those who have shown a desire to become outstanding trial lawyers or appellate attorneys. The selection of members of the Inn from such a diverse group is designed to foster the best interaction and exchange of ideas and insight. Student applications for the Inns open each spring for the following academic year. The Luther L. Bohanon American Inn of Court was established in 1985 and named after Judge Luther L. Bohanan, a 1928 graduate of the College of Law. Every year the Inn invites fourteen University of Oklahoma College of Law students to participate with outstanding Oklahoma City area lawyers in programs dedicated to teach ethics, professionalism and advocacy.

30 ■ Scholarships William R. Bandy Memorial Scholarship. Stu- dents, faculty colleagues and friends of the late William R. Bandy, a professor in the college from 1950 to 1961, r s hi ps sc h ola established a scholarship in his memory. The scholarship is presented annually. The amount of the award is determined by income earned. Judge John Brett and Robert D. Hudson Scholar- ship. This scholarship is awarded to a first-year student on the basis of the student’s undergraduate GPA, LSAT score and financial need. William L. Bruce Scholarships. Robert Alexander has established scholarships at OU College of Law in honor of Dean William L. Bruce, who was instrumen- tal in Mr. Alexander’s legal education. Mr. Alexander provides for up to three African American incoming students to receive a $5,000 award. Chesapeake Energy Corporation Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to law students with a demonstrated interest in oil and gas. W.B. Clark Scholarship Fund. This scholarship is awarded to a first-year student who is a resident of Kay County and who submits an application to the Kay County Bar Association’s Selection Committee. The recipient is chosen from Oklahoma’s three accredited law schools at the discretion of the Kay County Bar Association’s Selection Committee and is also renewable at the committee’s discretion. James W. Cochran Memorial Scholarship. The law class of 1936, in honor of their classmate James W. Cochran (who was killed in action in World War II), offers a scholarship to a student who is either a resident of Oklahoma, an honorably discharged veteran, or both. Preference is given to first-year students, although others may be considered. The College of Law Association Scholarship. The College of Law Association established scholarships for students, with the number and amount being determined by income earned on life memberships in the association. Comfort Scholarships. Through a generous endowment from William T. Comfort, Jr., and James T. Comfort, the College of Law awards tuition scholarships to incoming students with exemplary academic qualifications and LSAT scores. Scholarships are awarded without regard to financial need. The scholarship continues for the second and third years of study, provided the student maintains a minimum grade point average. In addition, the top 10 students in each of the second- and third-year classes receive Comfort Scholarships. Recipients are those students with the highest cumulative grade point averages in each class. These scholarships are awarded without regard to financial need, based purely on academic success. Another 15 incoming students annually receive merit-based Nathalie Pierrepont Comfort Scholarships for their first year of law school. Downer Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to deserving law students who are residents of the state of Oklahoma and have demonstrated financial need and the likelihood of success in the study of law. Carl P. and Erma W. Dunifon Law Scholarship. An endowed fund established to provide scholarships to students attending the College of Law. Crowe and Dunlevy Scholars Program. The prominent law firm of Crowe and Dunlevy has established a scholarship to be awarded to two minority first year law students. The scholarship may range from a $2,000 to $4,000 and will be recurring based upon positive progression while in law school. Robert J. Emery Student Support Fund. Established in 1983 by Howard H. Harris to honor his former classmate and law partner, this scholarship is awarded to a student who shows exceptional academic performance and has financial need. George J. Fagin Municipal Law Endowment. The George and Maxine Fagin Charitable Foundation funds this endowment. The annual income is awarded to a student for legal writing in the area of public finance.

31 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Scholarship. Established and provided with a large endowment in 1990 by law alumnus Wil- liam T. Comfort to honor the first black graduate of the College of Law, this scholarship is awarded to a first-year African- American student. Rayburn L. Foster Scholarship. The late Rayburn Foster, a 1916 alumnus of the college and former regent of the university, established a fund to provide financial assistance for deserving students. Income from the fund is used for scholarships based on aptitude and performance in the study of law and on qualities that indicate the capability of achieving a successful career in law. George B. Fraser Scholarship. Established in 1984 by the Class of 1984 and contributed to by alumni of the College of Law, this scholarship was named for George B. Fraser, David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus who taught full-time for many years in the College of Law. The scholarship is awarded to a first-year student on the basis of financial need and performance in Civil Procedure, which was Professor Fraser’s area of expertise. Gable and Gotwals Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a worthy and distinguished second- or third-year student in need of financial assistance. sc h ola r s hi ps David Hall Scholarship. This award was established in 1988 by George Henderson, David Ross Boyd Professor and S. N. Goldman Professor at the University of Oklahoma, to honor David Hall, an OU College of Law graduate and a graduate of the Department of Human Relations. It is awarded to a first year African-American student who has successfully completed the summer program, has an interest in social justice issues, and has earned a grade of B plus or higher in Con- tracts I. Walter D. Hanson. Pauline Hanson has endowed scholarships in honor of her late hus- band, Walter D. Hanson. Walter Hanson was a 1929 graduate of the OU College of Law and a prominent Oklahoma attorney. The Scholar- ships are awarded to incoming students. Justice Harry L. S. Halley Memorial Schol- arship. Established by Matilda H. Rummage in honor of her late father Justice Harry L. S. Hal- ley. This scholarship is awarded to a first year student planning to practice in the State of Okla- homa, who has an interest in involvement in the political process, either at the community or state level and a high LSAT. It is renewable if the student maintains at least a 6.5 grade point average. Gretchen A. Harris Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a first-year student who is entering law school at least five years after his or her last full-time college enrollment and has demonstrated potential for future growth by full-time employment, volunteer work, or other unpaid activities. Hartzog, Conger, Cason and Neville Scholarship. This scholarship is presented to a second-year student with good academic performance, character, integrity, and financial need. John G. Hervey Scholarship. This scholarship provides $1,000 to a deserving law student with demonstrated financial need. Teena Hicks Awards. Ms. Teena Hicks, a prominent Oklahoma City clothier provides two $750 clothing awards to OU-Law students towards the purchase of business attire at Teena Hicks Company. Thomas L. Hieronymus Memorial Fund. This scholarship was established by the family of Thomas L. Hieronymus. It is awarded to a second- or third-year student engaged in the study of oil and gas law or similar courses of study related to energy and natural resources law. Vivien McConnell Hood Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a second-year female student who is in the top one-third of her class and has financial need.

32 Samuel E. Hooper Scholarship. This scholarship in the amount of $1,000 is awarded to law students that demonstrate an interest and competence in labor and employment law and have a reputation for candor and integrity. Cecil L. Hunt Memorial Scholarship. Established in memory of Cecil L. Hunt, a prominent Tulsa attorney and OU law alumnus, by his sons, David W. and John A. Hunt. This scholarship is awarded to a second-year law student on the basis of depth of character, breadth of interests, scholastic achievement, financial need, and contribution to the legal profession and community. r s hi ps sc h ola J. Marshall Huser Scholarship. The family of J. Marshall Huser established this scholarship in his honor. This scholarship is awarded to a second-year student based on academic performance, diligence, seriousness of purpose, and positive contribution to the College of Law and community. A. L. Jeffrey Municipal Law Scholarship. This scholarship, established in memory of Judge A.L. Jeffrey, is awarded to the student who writes the best paper in municipal law. Senator Jeff Johnston Memorial Scholar- ship. This scholarship, established in memory of alumnus Senator Jeff Johnston, is awarded to either a second- or third-year student with good academic performance, demonstrated financial need, some indication of interest in government affairs, and some association with eastern Okla- homa. C. D. Northcutt Scholarship. This scholarship awards $5,000 to three deserving law students with demonstrated financial need. Jones, Givens, Gotcher and Bogan Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a third-year student who is in the top 25 percent of the class and has contributed the most to professional and student body activities while a student at the Col- lege of Law. Kappa Beta Pi Scholarship. The Kappa Beta Pi Scholarship Fund was established for the purpose of awarding a scholarship to a deserving second- or third-year female student in the College of Law. Selection is made on the basis of academic achievement, participation in activities of the College of Law, and other evidence of potential success as a lawyer. Kerr-McGee Scholarship. Established in 1989, this scholarship and clerking position is awarded to a first-year student to be used in succeeding years. The student must have a demonstrated interest in an energy-related field of law. Albert F. Kulp Memorial Scholarship Fund. The friends and family of the late Albert G. Kulp, a 1934 graduate of the College of Law, established this scholarship to provide financial assistance to a worthy student. Samuel A. Laycock Memorial Scholarship. Classmates and friends of the late Sam Laycock have established a scholarship to be awarded to a second-year law student. The student must be married and have a cumulative grade point average above C minus. Financial need is considered. Robert B. Looper Memorial Scholarship. The classmates of Robert B. Looper, Class of 1953, established a scholarship to recognize the student attaining the highest academic record for the first four semesters in the College of Law. Frank C. Love Memorial Scholarship. Established in 1982 by the family of Frank C. Love, this scholarship is presented to a second-year student who has demonstrated proficiency in legal writing and who has a good academic record. Selection is made on the basis of the best paper submitted. John McHenry Mee Scholarship. Established by the law firm of McAfee & Taft. This scholarship is awarded to the outstanding student in the Fall Corporations class. Charles B. Memminger Memorial Scholarship. The family of Charles B. Memminger, a 1933 graduate of the College of Law, established two scholarships. One is awarded to a second-year student who has an outstanding record in property law, and the other is awarded to a deserving third-year law student who is in need of financial assistance and plans to enter practice in a small town. 33 Maurice H. Merrill Memorial Scholar- ship. This scholarship is awarded to a student on all elements of merit with special consideration to demonstrated aptitude and interest in the field of public law. Clarence M. Mills Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a student who is the child of a district or associate district judge presently serving on the bench in Oklahoma. Consid- eration is given to academic achievement and need. Mineral Lawyers Society of Oklahoma City Scholarship. Two scholarships are sc h ola r s hi ps awarded to students who have distinguished themselves in an area of energy and/or oil and gas law. George Miskovsky Sr. and Nelly Mis- kovsky Scholarship. Law alumnus George Miskovsky and his wife established this scholarship to recognize a law student with good academic standing and financial need. The recipient also must have been a resident of Oklahoma for a minimum of 15 years. E. Dwight Morgan Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship was established in honor of former OU Professor of Law E. Dwight Morgan, who taught at the College from 1966 to 1985. It is awarded to deserving students at the discretion of the dean. Moyers, Martin, Santee, Imel and Tetrick Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to assist in the financial needs of a deserving incoming freshman student. Oklahoma Bar Foundation Scholarships. The Oklahoma Bar Foundation has provided funds for scholarships for law students in Oklahoma who demonstrate financial need and have an outstanding academic record. Oklahoma Bar Foundation Fellows Scholarship. This scholarship awards $5,000 to a second or third year law student who is a resident of the state of Oklahoma. The student must display an intent to practice law in Oklahoma, have financial need, interest in the field of public law or promise to give back to the community and to the profession. Preference is given to students with parents and/or grandparents who are/were members of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation Fellows program. Oklahoma City Real Property Lawyers Association Scholarship. A scholarship is awarded to the outstanding student in property law each year by the Real Property Lawyers Association in Oklahoma City. Marian P. Opala Scholarship. This scholarship provides $1,000 to a deserving law student with demonstrated financial need. William G. Paul Scholarship. A merit-based scholarship awarded to deserving students at the discretion of the dean. Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity Scholarship Fund. This scholarship is available to second- or third-year students who are current members of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. It is awarded to members who have unselfishly given their time in promoting and maintaining a strong chapter of Phi Alpha Delta. T. Ray Phillips III Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to second- and third-year law students with demonstrated financial need. Kailas and Becky Rao Scholarship in Honor of Leo H. Whinery. This scholarship, established in honor of Professor Leo H. Whinery, is awarded to an outstanding law student with exemplary character and financial need. Joseph F. Rarick American Indian Law Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a third-year American Indian student based on outstanding participation in student organizations and activities while a student at the College of Law. The student must be an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe. Richard Paul Ryan Scholarship. This merit-based scholarship is awarded to deserving law students at the discretion of the dean.

34 Robert T. Rennie Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to law students working through law school due to financial necessity. Philip Savage Scholarship. This scholarship, established in 1967, is awarded to a worthy second-year student on the basis of merit with special consideration of financial need. Royce H. Savage Scholarship. This scholarship was established by the Savage Family in honor of their grandfather, r s hi ps sc h ola Royce H. Savage. It is awarded to a deserving law student to help defray the cost of tuition and other educational expens- es. Sequoyah Scholarship. This scholarship was established to assist a first-year minority law student. Preference will be given to a Native American law student. The scholarship is renewed each year if the recipient maintains a 4.0 GPA. Tannell A. & Madelyn Shadid Memorial Scholarship. Friends and family of Tannell Shadid, an alumnus of the Col- lege of Law, established this scholarship to assist a worthy first-year student with financial need. Ed Shipp Memorial Scholarship. The family of Ed Shipp, former district judge for the 17th Judicial District, established this scholarship in 1978. It is awarded on the basis of academic performance and law school honors and activities. Special consideration is given to qualified students from the 17th Judicial District. John Shipp Memorial Scholarship. John Shipp practiced law in Idabel from 1966 until his death in 1998. A member of the Oklahoma Bar Association Board of Governors from 1981 through 1986, he served as president in 1985 and executive director in 1998 until his untimely death in December. In his memory, his family established this scholarship in 1999. It is awarded on the basis of academic performance and law school honors and activities. Bennie and Audrey Shultz Scholarship. Audrey Shultz and the late Bennie Shultz established a scholarship fund to be awarded to a second- or third-year law student who is in need of financial assistance and whose grades and character indicate promise of leadership in better government. Steve Stack Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship was established by the Grady County Bar in memory of Steve Stack. It is awarded to a second- or third-year student with an interest in tax. Allie M. and Robert E. Stephenson Law Scholarship. This scholarship was established in honor of Allie M. and Rob- ert E. Stephenson. It is awarded to deserving students at the discretion of the dean. Ray Teague Scholarship. Established in the estate of Ray Teague, a prominent practitioner, this scholarship is awarded to a student who will enter the third year with excellent academic performance and need for assistance in defraying educational costs. Special consideration may be given to academic performance in the field of property law. J. Roy Thompson Scholarship Fund. This scholarship is awarded to a first-year student who demonstrates high academic achievement through GPA and standardized test scores. The recipient must also qualify as a Native American with proper documentation. Lee B. Thompson, Sr. Scholarship. This scholarship was established in 1987 by the children of Lee B. Thompson, Sr. in his honor. It is awarded to a student on the basis of merit and need. Other criteria include excellent character, leadership, unselfish service to others, and scholarship. Bess Zeldich Ungerman Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a third-year minority student based on academic standing, financial need, and participation in College of Law activities. May M. Walker Scholarship. Established in 1967 by the May M. Walker estate, these scholarships are available to full- time students who show evidence of ability to succeed and who have financial need. Judge W. A. and Mabel Woodruff Scholarship. Mr. and Mrs. W. Preston Woodruff of Tulsa established this scholarship in memory of Mr. Woodruff’s parents, to recognize married students who are in need of financial assistance and whose personality, industry, character selflessness, and patriotism indicate exceptional promise as lawyers and citizens. High academic standing is not a prerequisite. Leon J. York, Jr., Scholarship. The family and friends of Leon J. York, Jr., endowed a scholarship in his memory. Jerry York, who died in 1960, the year of his graduation, was a practicing attorney in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The recipient is selected on the basis of need and professional promise.

35 ■ Awards and Prizes Academic Achievement Awards. Each student receiving the highest grade in qualifying courses will receive a certificate signifying the student’s outstanding academic performance. Harry Alley-Leroy Allen Memorial Prize. Members of the Law Class of 1937, in honor of classmates who lost their lives in World War II, offer an annual award which is used to purchase law books. It is awarded to the student who writes the best case note for the Oklahoma Law Review. Henry Kent Anderson Human Services Award. This award is given to a third-year Native American law school student who has demonstrated leadership and who has accomplishments that show appreciation for history, culture, welfare and economic development of Native Americans. The student must also have been a participant in the Native American Law program. a r ds & Prize s American Trial Lawyers Association Competition Award. This award, sponsored by the Oklahoma City firm of w a Norman, Edem, McNaughton and Wallace, is awarded to students who participate in the American Trial Lawyers Asso- ciation competition each year. Kelly Beardslee Criminal Defense Clinic Award. This award is in memory of 1994 graduate, Kelly Beardslee, and is presented to the outstanding legal intern from the OU Legal Clinic who demonstrates overall excellence in representing people charged with crimes who are unable to afford an attorney. S.T. Bledsoe Memorial Prize. Mrs. Adelaide Bledsoe Kingman and Mr. Virgil T. Bledsoe offer as a memorial to their father the same prize offered by him for many years; law books to be selected by the recipient. The award is based upon all elements of merit in the student’s record for the entire three-year curriculum. Board of Advocates — First Year Moot Court Award. This competition was initiated by the Board of Advocates, a group of students who wanted to provide a real and satisfying experience for first-year students interested in appellate advocacy. The competition is sponsored by the Tulsa firm of Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst and Dickman. The student receiving the top speaker award receives a cash prize to recognize his or her achievement. John B. Cheadle Memorial Award. Former faculty members and students established an award to recognize long and distinguished service to the College of Law by John Begg Cheadle. The award is made annually to a worthy second-year student in recognition of outstanding service to the College of Law, with some consideration for academic achievement. The recipient’s name is placed on a plaque displayed in the college, and a cash prize is awarded. Class of 1960 Client Counseling Competition Award. The team is sponsored by the OU College of Law Class of 1960. The only information the client counseling team is given before the competition is a topic within which the case may fall. Doerner, Saunders, Daniel and Anderson L.L.P., Dickson M. Saunders Memorial Scholarship Fund. This Tulsa law firm presents an award to the outstanding member of the first-year class who demonstrates academic excellence and selfless dedication to the improvement of the College of Law. Paul K. Frost II Memorial Award. Established in 1979 by family members of Paul K. Frost II, this award recognizes a student who is a resident of Oklahoma and holds a distinguished rank in the second-year class. In addition to academic achievement, the selection committee considers strength of character, sense of serious purpose, leadership ability, and promise of future involvement in the governmental affairs of Oklahoma and the nation. The award consists of a cash grant, a medallion and the recipient’s name engraved on a plaque that is displayed permanently in the College of Law. Justice William A. Grimes Civil Libertarian Award. Awarded to a third-year student who best exemplifies the prin- ciple of civil libertarianism. James F. Hawes Memorial Award. Mrs. James Hawes, mother of James F. Hawes, who died while a second-year student, has established a cup upon which is engraved each year the name of the outstanding member of the second-year class. Judge Albert C. Hunt Advocate Awards. This award is presented to the 1st and 2nd place outstanding oral advocates of the first year competition. It is supported by Judge Albert C. Hunt, and following his death, endowed by his family. Joel Jankowsky Award. Established by Mr. Julian Rothbaum in honor of his stepson and admired friend, Joel Jankowsky. Awarded to a third-year student whose combined leadership, scholarship and selfless service to others exemplifies a standard of overall excellence deserving the highest honor. McAfee and Taft Award. Awarded to the outstanding third-year student(s) in an area, course or competition related to trial practice and procedure at the College of Law.

36 National Trial Team. This award is presented to those students who are selected each year to represent the College of Law as members of the National Trial Advocacy Team. Oklahoma Bar Association — Business Associations Section Award. Awarded to the student who makes the highest grade in Corporations during the fall semester. Oklahoma Bar Association Outstanding Third Year Student Award. Each fall, the Oklahoma Bar Association presents an award to the outstanding third-year law student, selected by the faculty. OU Legal Clinic Distinguished Student Award. These scholarships are awarded to students enrolled in the Legal Aid Clinic and Criminal Defense Clinic. Recipients are determined by the Director of Clinical Education. Welcome D. Pierson Memorial Award. W. DeVier Pierson, son of the late Welcome D. Pierson, a 1922 alumnus of the College of Law, continues the award his father established by offering a cash award to the third-year student achieving the highest grade point average in Evidence, Civil Procedure I, and Civil Procedure II. Phillips A. Porta Memorial Award. The Oklahoma Bar Foundation presents an award to a student entering the third- year of law study who has attained the highest grade in Professional Responsibility. Professional Responsibility Award. The Student Bar Association recognizes the member of the graduating class each year who, by vote of the class, most clearly exemplifies the spirit and attitudes of professional responsibility and leadership. The recipient receives a plaque. Joseph F. Rarick “Just Deserts” Award. This award was established to recognize, at convocation each year, a student whose excellence would otherwise remain unacknowledged, and who has contributed to making the College of Law more beneficial to all. Salem Civil Liberties Award. This award is given to two second- or third-year students for the best paper written on a civil rights topic and the best article on a civil rights topic published in any of the Law Reviews sponsored by the College of Law. Nathan Scarritt Prize. The late Nathan Scarritt of Enid, Oklahoma, a 1923 law alumnus, offered annually for many years a gold medal to the student who graduated with the highest academic record for the entire three-year curriculum. His sons, Nathan Scarritt, Jr., and Richard W. Scarritt, continue this prize in their father’s memory. Gene H. and Jo Ann Sharp Law Review Award. This scholarship is awarded to students making the most significant contribution to the Oklahoma Law Review. Larry Siria Community Service Award. This award is given to a third-year student who has completed at least two semesters in legal aid and/or the Criminal Defense Clinic and who shows compassion in dealing with underprivileged and under-represented people. Student Bar Association Prize. The Board of Governors of the Student Bar Association provides a plaque to the student rendering the most valuable and significant service to the student body. William H. and Jeanne J. Tabb Award. This award recognizes outstanding advocacy in the College of Law’s annual intra-school moot court competition for first-year students. The members of the first- and second-place teams each receive a cash prize to recognize their achievement. Joe G. Wolfe Memorial Award. This award recognizes students selected to compete on the National Appellate Advo- cacy Team.

37 ■ Clinical Education Program

“More than skills, an experience for a lifetime . . .”

Cheryl Wattley, Director

■ Introduction Lori Ketner, Clinical Legal Education Assistant It is not just by doing that students learn. Students courtroom presentation technology, clinic students are also learn through the process of planning what to do exposed to the full spectrum of lawyering. By doing, stu- and what steps to take. The student then implements dents learn law office management, effective client inter- the action. Once the action has been completed, time action, thorough case investigation and development and is taken to look back and analyze what happened and the fine art of advocacy. Students also have direct contact assess the impact upon the next step. Through this with opposing counsel and court personnel. experiential learning cycle, students are exposed to the Our students bring these resources and training to their practice of law, problem solving techniques, and the representation of persons who might otherwise be deprived responsibilities of being an attorney. Recognizing that of meaningful access to the justice system. Serving as the students benefit from experiential learning the Universi- attorney for their clients allows students to appreciate the ty of Oklahoma College of Law offers a variety of place- responsibilities and privileges of being a lawyer. ment activities for its students. Our motto “more than skills, an experience for a lifetime” reflects our belief that enrolling in a live client LIVE CLIENT CLINICS clinical course teaches a student not only lawyering skills but lessons that reach much further. Students have Mission the opportunity to work closely with faculty supervi- ■ sors as mentors, receiving the benefit of their guidance Through our live client clinics, the College of Law and direction. Our clinical students have structured educates students in the practical art of lawyering. opportunities to discuss their excitement and concerns Effective and responsible lawyering requires a student to about representing clients. Reflecting on the handling develop a high level of professional skills, a deep appre- of cases and the decisions that were made, seeking input ciation for ethical responsibility, and a commitment to and assistance from others, working collaboratively, and service to the community. Our live client clinics give learning how to do it for yourself are all abilities needed our students the opportunity to link theory with prac- to be a successful attorney. The live client clinics give tice. The clinics teach more than skills, they are an expe- our students practical know-how, allow them to develop rience for a lifetime. those abilities and provide them with a sense of self- assurance and direction. ■ Program and Goals Our live client clinical students, under the supervi- ■ Requirements sion of clinic faculty, form the College’s law office. From To participate in a live client clinic, a student must cutting edge case management software to state of the art be licensed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court as a 38 licensed legal intern. To obtain this license, a law stu- Representing a client gives our civil students the dent must: opportunity to appear before municipal and state district • Register with the Oklahoma Bar Association court judges and participate in administrative hearings • Complete 50 credit hours of legal instruction before state and federal agencies. Whatever type of case, • Pass “Civil Procedure I and II”, “Evidence” and “Pro- the students work closely with experienced clinical faculty. fessional Responsibility” Students are responsible for every aspect of their • Pass the legal intern’s exam administered by the Okla- cases and files, including interviewing, investigating, homa Bar Association drafting, counseling, negotiating, litigating motions and evidentiary hearings, and conducting trials. Individual- ■ Credits ized instruction, regular meetings between supervisors and students and critical feedback are essential to the A student earns three hours of credit each semes- live client clinics. Through monthly case rounds, civil ter for participating in the College of Law Legal Clinic. students have an opportunity to discuss as a group the Additionally, each student must take a two-hour credit challenges encountered in the representation of clients “skills” course. Therefore a student can earn 3-5 hours and the practice of law. of graduation credit for each semester of participation as well as providing a service to real clients while developing real-world skills. ■ Criminal Justice Clinic ■ Civil Clinic The Criminal Justice Clinic offers our law students the opportunity to represent indigent defendants Students in our Civil Clinic work directly with charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses in dis- clients who otherwise might not have representation. trict and municipal courts. Our students plan and per- Facing an eviction, a divorce, or a battle over custody form every aspect of the defense of a criminal case under of children is a terrifying and highly emotional time for the direct supervision of one of OU Law Legal Clinic’s clients. Students in the civil clinic become the person to experienced supervising attorneys. help clients navigate those legal waters. Whether it is a Each student handles a mixed caseload of minor family law matter, tenant-landlord problem, drafting of felony, misdemeanor and municipal cases. The Clinic a will, or any other number of potential civil cases, our seeks to ensure that all students have a range of cases civil students provide the guidance to the client to reach that allow them sufficient time to provide their clients a a resolution.

39 vigorous, competent defense and also to receive a quality educational experience. The students assume responsibility for every aspect of their cases, including interviewing, investigating, negotiating, litigating motions, and conducting trials. Individualized instruction, regular meetings between supervisors and students, and critical feedback are essential features of this clinic too.

■ Litigation Skills Class All first time clinic students in the live client clinics are required to enroll in the Litigation Skills course. In this classroom component, students apply the knowledge acquired in their substantive law classes by engaging in litigation simulation exercises. Classroom presentations give students a chance to hone basic lawyering techniques. The skills class challenges students to reflect upon and negotiation scenarios appropriate for their clinic their clinical experiences and consider those experiences assignment. The video recording of student exercises in light of the formal skills training. This reflection allows students to review their performances with clinical enhances students’ ability to learn from experience. faculty to gain insight and direction. This class requires students to discuss their ideas Through team activities, students become aware of and impressions concerning the role of the lawyer in our the need to consider both potential civil and criminal judicial system and in our society. In this classroom set- ramifications in representation of a client. Such activities ting, students can share their observations of the ethical expose students to the dynamics of collaborative efforts. dilemmas they encounter while working as legal interns. Guest presentations by practicing attorneys spur student ■ Community Service Project discussions of ideas and impressions of the criminal justice system, the civil courts and practice, and ethical con- Recognizing that being an attorney is both a privi- siderations required of attorneys. lege and responsibility, all clinic students participate The Litigation Skills class, taught by clinical faculty, in the identification and development of a community utilizes case problems carefully designed to require stu- service project. Students have presented workshops and dents to develop and use skills and reasoning critical to assistance to elderly residents of Norman and Moore in the practice of law. Students are assigned to various roles, the execution of Advanced Health Care Directives. They depending on their clinic assignment as civil or criminal have hosted a special holiday party for the children of justice. Students participate in interviewing, counseling, clinic clients. Each semester begins with student presentations of possible community service projects.

EXTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS

■ Judicial Externship Program The Judicial Externship Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Law gives students the unique opportunity to work in the chambers of a Federal District Judge, an Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice, an Okla- homa Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, or an Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals Judge. These placements allow students to have direct observations of the judicial decision making process. Students witness the application of substantive law to actual factual situations. Through such a placement, students develop an appreciation for the interrelationship between advocacy and effective lawyering; the burdens and responsibilities of judicial decision making; the proper resolution of ethical issues; and the 40 role of courts in society. Students are involved in research, pal court, and various administrative agencies before con- drafting of memorandums, and case analysis under the ducting mediations. Through the training received in this supervision of a judge. This placement is a three credit partnership, students obtain certification by the Oklahoma hour course graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Supreme Court as volunteer mediators. This three credit Selection for judicial placement is made by the Director of hour placement requires the submission of a written appli- Clinical Education. Submission of a written application, cation, writing sample and faculty reference. writing sample, and faculty reference is required. ■ Interdisciplinary Training – Child Abuse and ■ Public Agency Placements Neglect Students gain an understanding of governmental Offered through the University of Oklahoma Health operations on a state, county, or municipal level as they Sciences Center, the Interdisciplinary Training Program work in law related positions. A variety of government in Child Abuse and Neglect offers law students with an agencies have accepted our law students under this pro- interest in the treatment and prevention of child abuse gram such as the United States Attorney’s Office for and neglect, an unique opportunity for an immersion the Western District of Oklahoma, the Federal Public in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach. Law Defender’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma, students learn by studying with advanced students from the Oklahoma Department of Insurance, Office of other disciplines such as medicine, psychology, sociol- Corporation Commission, Miami Dade County Public ogy, social work, public health, nursing, and education. Defender’s Office, and Miami Dade County District Students develop an appreciation for the contributions Attorney’s Office. This three credit hour placement of different disciplines to the problem of child maltreat- requires the submission of a written application, writing ment. Weekly seminars are enhanced by simulation sample, and faculty reference. exercises, speakers, and participation in a Mock Trial. All students are required to go on an investigative call with ■ Mediation Program a child protective services worker, participate in a Child Protection Committee meeting, and observe treatment In collaboration with the Early Settlement Program programs for abuse victims and family members. In this of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, law students receive two semester program, students participate in weekly training in mediation and dispute resolution techniques. seminar sessions; a legal clinic; and a cross-discipline Students learn the benefits and rationale for mediated practicum. Selections are based upon written application resolution. After completion of twenty hours of training, and interview by an interdisciplinary team. The course is students observe mediations in small claims court, munici- graded at the end of the second semester.

41 ■ The Law Library

The Donald E. Pray Law Library is the premier public resource for conducting legal research in Oklahoma. Our mission is to provide innovative support to the scholarly and instructional needs of the College of Law faculty and students. We also strive to meet the general research needs of the University, attorneys, and the public. The Law Library moved into a new facility in 2002, which was dedicated by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Law Library includes a Great Read- ing Room, several group study rooms, and two computer labs. It also includes modern features such as a wireless network, built-in power outlets, and large work spaces to accommodate laptops and books. The Law Library offers its users access to the uni- verse of legal information in both digital and print formats. The Law Library collection contains more maintaining the collection. Whether giving a presenta- than 350,000 print volumes. Online databases from all tion in a classroom on the use of legal research tools or the major legal publishers are also available. Primary assisting students at the reference desk, the law librarians research materials include all state and federal case law are dedicated to teaching students and scholars how to and statutes, key works from prominent legal scholars, “find the law.” as well as indexes, digests, bibliographies and related College of Law students and faculty can also take research tools which enable researchers to locate infor- advantage of the extensive collections of other librar- mation on any aspect of the law. ies at the University of Oklahoma. The Law Library The Native Peoples Collection of the law Library is participates in the University of Oklahoma’s web-based one of the nation’s largest collections relating to Native catalog system. The Law Library also has easy-to-use Peoples, and it has a national reputation for excellence. lists of electronic legal resources available on its web site. In addition, the Law Library, working with the National Researchers can access materials from any computer Indian Law Library, has created the Native American connected to the Internet. Constitution and Law Digitization Project online (http:// Law students and faculty have access to the vast legal thorpe.ou.edu), bringing primary and secondary docu- information systems, WESTLAW and LexisNexis, as ments of Native American law to the Internet. The well as a variety of other full-text legal databases. First Law Library also has extensive holdings in the areas of year students receive instruction and access to these legal history, health law, agricultural law, water law, and systems during their first year of law school. Advanced energy law. training sessions are also available for students, and the The Law Library is a selective depository for federal law librarians are available to assist with search tech- government documents and is a participant in the Fed- niques and methodology. eral Depository Program, which seeks to make available The Law Library’s computer labs contain a total a wide range of law-related government information to of more than 40 computers for student use. Access is our students, faculty, and the general public. The Law limited to law students only, and each workstation is Library’s greatest resource is its staff. A group of highly runs the latest editions of Microsoft Windows, Office, trained professional librarians with advanced degrees and web browsers. In addition, there are more than 10 constantly seeks to enhance use of the collection through computers available for general use by all patrons. The reference assistance, training, tours, and research guides. Law Library also provides access to the CALI computer An expert staff assists them in acquiring materials and exercises which covers virtually all areas of law and are

42 written by law professors from across the country. The Computer Lab is staffed by student assistants and information technology professionals who can help you with personal laptop and with law school systems and applications. After a computer lab orientation at the start of your first year of law schools, students are assigned a network login which provides access to email, network storage, and the Law Center’s student intranet. The Information Technology Services Department at the College of Law is happy to assist you with all of your computer questions.

The Chapman Great Reading Room ■ The Native People’s Collection The University of Oklahoma Native People’s Collection of the Law Library consists of approximately 3,000 titles in print and microform. It is known as the Native People’s Collection of the Law Library because of the intent to include information on indigenous peoples around the world. The collection is one of several on-campus libraries that feature American Indian subjects. It is unique in its legal emphasis and especially valuable because of its perspective on Native American culture and history. This collection is a major resource for scholars and researchers throughout the nation. The core of the Law Library’s Native People’s Collection is the Strickland Memorial Col- lection donated by Dean Rennard Strickland in memory of his brother William Strick- land. Dean Rennard Strickland was formerly on the faculty of the University of Okla- homa College of Law and Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center and later Dean and Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. He is highly regarded as an authority on Indian law, art and legal education. The guiding acquisitions strategy for the Native People’s Collection is best expressed by Dean Rennard Strickland in the following excerpt: “Much of what we think of as Indian law grows out of historical experience. Tribal traditions and cultures impact on the way law is interpreted. Administrative rules and regulations loom large in the field. The Congress and the executive branch exert a greater impact on the lives of Native Americans than does the Supreme Court. An Indian law and policy collection must reflect all of these diverse sources both historical and contemporary.” The Law Library also is a participant in the Native American Constitution and Law Digitization project. The Project is a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and Native American tribes, providing access to the tribal constitutions, codes and other Indian law documents and publications. The URL is http://thorpe.ou.edu for the Native American Constitu- tion and Law Digitization Project.

43 ■ Office of Professional and Career Development

The Office of Professional and Career Develop- ment (OPCD) at the University of Oklahoma Col- lege of Law is dedicated to the success of OU Law graduates after their formal education. By providing counseling, programming, events and employer services, the OPCD demonstrates daily its commitment to the success and vitality of the College of Law. The College of Law provides all students with the education, practical experience and training they need to develop excellent legal skills in their elected field. Our distinguished faculty, comprehensive curriculum and exceptional research and writing program enable our students to develop the knowledge and skills required to become extraordinary lawyers.

OPCD Services: ■ Marcus Bivines, Associate Director, and Katie Griffin, Director, Office of Professional and Career Development The OPCD helps students prepare for employment after law school. The College of Law is involved with placing more than 96 percent of its graduates within nine months of graduation. The OPCD offers a variety of student services that include interviewing programs, networking programs, career development resources, professionalism training, mock interviews, resume reviews, judicial clerkships, Lunch & Learn Series (topics include: immigration law, tribal law, corporate governance, work/life balance, oil and gas, alternatives to the practice of law), resume workshops, successful interviewing programs, successful summer clerkship programs and more. It is our goal to help our students and graduates develop their career options and land the job that meets their individual needs.

■ Alumni Profile

OU College of Law graduates are found in all 50 states and 14 foreign countries and territories, in all types of public and private sector positions. Roughly one-third of College of Law graduates seek and find positions in states other than Oklahoma. Our alumni are very active in placement of our students and recent graduates.

44 ■ Administration

An effective organization operates under the guidance of experienced, service-oriented management. At the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the primary focus of the administration is helping students fulfill their personal and professional goals. Dean Andrew Coats, Associate Dean Murray Tabb, Associate Dean Liesa Richter, Assistant Dean Stanley Evans and Assis- tant Dean David Poarch oversee a knowledgeable, responsive staff of administrative assistants responsible for the day-to-day life of the Law Center. An open-door policy encourages each student to develop a lasting relationship with the men and women who shape the policy and programs of the College of Law. The effects of the administration’s efforts are visible from the first day of orientation to long after graduation. Constantly working to improve the facility, recent fund-raising efforts have culminated in a dramatic expansion that has almost doubled the size of the existing law center. The expansion includes a state-of-the-art courtroom in which students are regularly able to witness state and federal trial and

appellate proceedings as part of the daily life at the Law Center. It is just one example of how the administrators of the College of Law are working to make it the leading legal education institution in America. From questions about academics or finances, to changing schedules or changing focus, to the most serious personal issues students sometimes face, a member of the administrative staff is always available to listen and respond. Whatever the situation, the administrators of the Col- lege are ready and willing to assist students in pursuing the path to success.

45 ■ The Competitions Program ■ Competitions

First-Year Competition All first-year students write an appellate brief as part of their Legal Research and Writing class. Using the same problem and legal issues, all first-year students participate as two-person teams in an intra-school competition, held in the spring semester, and sponsored by the Tabb family and the family of Judge Albert C. Hunt. Participants are judged by practicing members of the bar and bench. Following an elimination format through several rounds, the top-ranking teams and speakers receive valuable cash awards. Cash awards are also given to the top brief writer in each legal research and writing section.

Second/Third Year Competition All second and third year students are invited to participate in the Calvert Moot Court competition sponsored by the Floyd and ■ The College of Law participates in three types of skills Irma Calvert Fund for Law and Liberty and the Board of Advo- competitions: cates. A case currently before the United States Supreme Court is chosen as the topic. Following an elimination format, the top-ranking teams receive valuable cash awards. Participants are • Moot Court and Appellate Advocacy judged by practicing members of the bar and bench. • Mock Trial and Arbitration • Lawyering Skills such a Client Counseling, Negotiation and Interscholastic Competitions Mediation The College of Law participates in several interscholastic Moot The experiences gained through participation in these varied Court competitions yearly. While a few of the competitions vary competitions enable students to see the entire range of the lawyer- from year to year based on student interest in a particular area of ing process, from the initial client interview through negotiation, law, other competitions are chosen annually. Additionally, the trial, and appeal. College of Law participates in several mock trial, arbitration and skills competitions. ■ Board of Advocates Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Annual Competitions The Board of Advocates is a student organization created for the purpose of increasing interest and participation in intra-school National Moot Court Competition and interschool competitions at the College of Law. The Board of Sponsored by the New York Bar – Young Lawyers Division Advocates sponsors two intra-school moot court competitions, one during the fall semester and one during the spring semester. National Appellate Advocacy Competition Additionally, the Board of Advocates sponsors various interscho- Sponsored by the American Bar Association lastic competitions at both the regional and national level. To qualify for membership in the Board of Advocates, a student must have completed thirty (30) hours of academic credit by the end of the semester prior to when the student becomes a member, be in good academic standing, and participate on an interscholastic team. Elections for Board of Advocates Officers are held in the spring of each year. ■ Honors Workshops

Members of the College of Law interscholastic teams are eligible to participate in an appellate advocacy or trial techniques workshops. The Honors Workshops, taught by faculty and visiting instructors, are only open to competition team members. These workshops offer intensive instruction and hands on experience to competitors. The advocacy workshop focuses on drafting appellate briefs and presenting appellate arguments. The trial techniques workshop focuses on evidence, trial preparation and presentation.

46 ■ Skills Competitions Offered Annually

National Arbitration Competition Sponsored by the American Bar Association

National Negotiation Competition Sponsored by the American Bar Association

National Client Counseling Competition Sponsored by the American Bar Association

National Mediation Competition Sponsored by the American Bar Association ■ Trial Competitions Offered Annually

AAJ Mock Trial Competition Sponsored by the American Association of Justice (formerly ATLA)

NTC Mock Trial Competition Sponsored by the Texas Bar Association – Young Lawyers Division

Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition Sponsored by the National Black Law Students Association Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition Sponsored by the International Law Students Association The College of Law has a rich history of success in the various competitions, winning numerous individual and team awards Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition annually at the regional and national levels. Students are recog- Sponsored by the National Black Law Student Association nized at an end of the season Awards Day each spring. Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition Sponsored by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Asso- ciation

NNALSA Moot Court Competition Sponsored by the National Native American Law Student Association

Burton Wechsler First Amendment Competition Sponsored by American University, Washington College of Law

William Spong Moot Court Competition Sponsored by William and Mary School of Law

William McGee Civil Rights Moot Court Competition Sponsored by the University of Minnesota College of Law

Sports Law Moot Court Competition Sponsored by Tulane Law School

HNBA Moot Court Competition Sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Association

Other Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Competitions Offered Recently: Southern Illinois University National Health Law Moot Court Competition Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition Pepperdine Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition Animal Rights Moot Court Competition Whittier Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition

47 Mary Sue Backus Profiles Associate Professor of Law ■ B.A., College of William and Mary, 1981 M.A.T., University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1990 J.D., William and Mary School of Law, 2001 OWEN ANDERSON Eugene Kuntz Chair in Law in Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Professor of Law Associate Professor Mary B.A., University of North Dakota, 1971 Sue Backus joined the law fac- J.D., University of North Dakota, 1974 ulty in 2004 after a semester as Email: [email protected] a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at William and Mary School of Law, where she taught Professor Owen Ander- Evidence and a seminar on indi- son, who came to OU in gent defense systems. 1992, had previously served Professor Backus, who as the Jack F. Maddox Pro- graduated first in her class at fessor of Law at Texas Tech William and Mary, was selected University, Distinguished as a member of Order of the Visitor and Chair of Natural Coif and the Order of the Bar- Resources at the University risters. She served as Senior of Calgary, Professor of Law Notes Editor of the William and at the University of North Mary Law Review, on the staff Dakota, and Thompson and of the William and Mary Bill of Knight Centennial Visiting Rights Journal, and competed on Professor at the University the National Moot Court Team. Backus received the Margaret Thatcher of Texas. He has also served Prize for Excellence in Graduate Studies, awarded by the College to the as a Visiting Professor of outstanding graduate student, and the Lawrence W. I’Anson Award, Law at Southern Methodist awarded by the law faculty. University, the University Professor Backus began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon- of Houston, the University orable H. Emory Widener on the United States Court of Appeals, of North Dakota, and the Fourth Circuit. Following her clerkship, Backus joined the Washing- University of Wyoming. In addition to teaching at OU, he currently ton, D.C. firm of Covington and Burling where she handled product serves as visiting faculty at the University of Dundee in Scotland, the liability litigation and regulatory matters. In addition, Backus pro- University of Sidney in Australia, and at the University of Melbourne vided pro bono assistance on custody and education matters and sys- in Australia. He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Oil and Gas Law. temic reform of indigent defense systems. Professor Anderson has lectured throughout the United States Professor Backus is a member of the Virginia Bar and the District and also in Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, China, Jordan, of Columbia Bar and teaches Evidence, Education Law and Crimi- Italy, KOREA, Russia, and Australia. He has trained law students and nal Law. From 2004 to 2007 she served as as a Co-Reporter for the lawyers throughout the world in international petroleum transac- National Committee on the Right to Counsel, a bipartisan group tions, negotiations, and dispute resolution. reviewing the indigent defense system throughout the nation and cre- Professor Anderson is a co-author of International Petroleum ating consensus recommendations for reform. Backus also serves on Transactions, Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law, Hemingway’s the board of directors for Oklahoma Close Up, a nonpartisan, non- Oil and Gas Law and Taxation (4th edition), Water and Water Rights profit citizenship education program for high schools students. (volume 2, prior appropriation materials), and the updates to the Kuntz treatise on oil and gas law. He has written numerous articles on oil and gas law. He serves on the Board of Editors for the Oil and Gas Reporter and is editor of Texas Title Standards. Professor Anderson is a member of the Oklahoma, Texas, and North Dakota Bars, a life member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a trustee of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, and a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Min- eral Law Foundation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board on Oil and Gas Law for the Center for American and International Law and IS a vice president and member of the Board of Directors of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.

48 Brenda Barnes DONALD T. BOGAN Staff Attorney, University of Oklahoma College of Law Legal Clinic Professor of Law B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1996 A.B., Brown University, 1974 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1999 J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 1979

Brenda Barnes supervis- Professor Bogan joined es legal interns in the Civil the faculty at the University of Division of the Clinic. Oklahoma College of Law in Her legal career began in 2000, following a year as a Vis- private practice which she iting Professor. He served as continues to maintain. She Director of Clinical Education handles a diverse case load from 2001-2006, and currently representing individuals in teaches health law, alternate dispute resolution and various Family Law, Juvenile Law skills classes. Bogan worked as and Criminal Law. a trial lawyer in North Caro- Barnes serves as the lina and in California for 20 defense attorney on the years before joining the law Cleveland County Juvenile faculty. Drug Court Team. She was While in private practice, the recipient of the Uni- Bogan contributed to the work versity of Oklahoma Kelly of the North Carolina Acad- Beardslee Criminal Defense emy of Trial Lawyers, and he Award in 1999 and the remains active in the Associa- Cleveland County Outstanding Service to the Community Award in tion of Trial Lawyers of America. 2006. He was a contributing editor of The North Carolina Prima Facie Desk Manual, and published a student piece in the Wake Forest Law Review. His current writing interests spring from ERISA’s preemption Marcus bivines of state law consumer protection laws, and issues involving the ERISA Associate Director of the Office of Professional and Career Development benefit claims process. Professor Bogan’s thoughts on ERISA appear B.A., University of Oklahoma, 2001 in the Tulane Law Review, Santa Clara Law Review, John Marshall Law J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007 Review and the Oklahoma Law Review. Additionally, Professor Bogan Email: [email protected] has contributed to the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law treatise, Employee Benefits Law (BNA Books, 2006). Bogan is licensed to practice in North Carolina (1979), California A recent graduate of (1995), and Oklahoma (1999). University of Oklahoma College of Law, ’07, Bivines was a Sequoyah Merit Schol- Steven J. Cleveland ar, served as the president Professor of Law of the Black Law Students B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1990 Association and was first J.D., Georgetown University, 1998 year class president. During Email: [email protected] his undergraduate years he was a student-athlete. He Professor Steven J. Cleve- competed as a football play- land, who joined the law er and track athlete while he faculty in 2002, teaches Cor- completed his Bachelor of porations, Corporate Finance, Arts degree in Sociology. He Securities Regulation, and excelled in track and field, Mergers and Acquisitions. His where he garnered several scholarly interests center on accolades including All- the market for corporate con- American honors. trol. At Georgetown, Cleveland served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Following graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Henry A. Politz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Cleveland then was associated with the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. At Skadden, he worked on various types of transactions, including tender offers, asset purchases, joint ventures and mergers. Cleveland is a member of the Washington, D.C. and Georgia Bar Associations. 49 ANDREW M. COATS RANDALL COYNE Dean of the College of Law Frank Elkouri and Edna Asper Elkouri Professor of Law Fenelon Boesche Chair in Law B. Music Education University of Massachusetts, 1980 Director of the Law Center J.D, Georgetown, 1986 Professor of Law Email: [email protected] B.A, University of Oklahoma, 1957 J.D, University of Oklahoma, 1963

Dean Andrew M. Coats Professor Randall Coyne was appointed as the Elev- teaches Criminal Law, Crimi- enth Dean of the College of nal Procedure, Capital Punish- Law and Sixth Director of ment, Constitutional Law, and the Law Center on April 25, Legal Aspects of Terrorism. In 1996. Prior to his appoint- 2003, Coyne was selected as ment at the University of the Maurice Merrill Professor Oklahoma he was a senior of Law, a position he relin- partner of the Oklahoma law quished in 2005 when he was firm of Crowe and Dunlevy. chosen to be the first holder of An alumnus of the Uni- the Elkouri Professorship. In versity and the College of 2008, Coyne was appointed Law, Dean Coats has served Senior Editor of the Amicus as District Attorney of Okla- Journal, a leading death pen- homa County, Mayor of alty publication. Oklahoma City, President of In 1996, he co-authored the Oklahoma Bar Associa- “Report Regarding the tion, and President of the Implementation of the Crowe and Dunlevy law firm. While an officer in the U.S. Navy, he American Bar Association’s Recommendations and Resolutions Con- served as naval advisor to the Chinese Nationalist Government in cerning the Death Penalty and Calling for a Moratorium on Execu- Taiwan. tions,” 4 Geo. J. Fighting Poverty 1 (1996). This comprehensive report His legal career is highlighted by successfully arguing before the served as the scholarly basis for the A.B.A.’s February, 1997 call for a U.S. Supreme Court for the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia halt to executions nationwide. in their case against the National Collegiate Athletic Association With Lyn Entzeroth, Coyne is co-author of Capital Punishment (NCAA), which broke the NCAA’s college football TV monopoly. As and the Judicial Process (third edition, 2006), the first casebook devot- District Attorney of Oklahoma County, he prosecuted a number of ed exclusively to the death penalty. important cases, including the “Sirloin Stockade Murders.” A member of the Order of the Coif, Coyne is the author of articles In 1997, Dean Coats completed his term as the President of in numerous law reviews, including the Georgetown Journal on Fight- the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a trustee of the U.S. ing Poverty, Kansas Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, Oklahoma Supreme Court Historical Society, an Oklahoma Fellow of the Ameri- City Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Tulsa Law Review, can Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial the Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Ethics and Responsibility and the Lawyers, and was the Charter President of the Oklahoma Chapter of New England University Law Journal. the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has represented condemned prisoners in California, Okla- Dean Coats was selected for induction into the Oklahoma Hall homa, Colorado, Texas and Guantanamo, Cuba. In 1993, his client, of Fame on November 17, 2005. This is the highest honor Oklahoma Federico Martinez Macias, became the 49th prisoner released from can confer upon an Oklahoman. The Law School building was death row on grounds of innocence since 1973. During the 1996-97 named Andrew M. Coats Hall in honor of Dean Coats in 2002 by the academic year, Coyne took an unpaid leave of absence to serve as University of Oklahoma Regents. trial counsel to the defense team in United States v. Timothy James McVeigh. In 2005, he led a team of lawyers in the representation of a Muslim prisoner labeled an “enemy combatant” and subjected to indefinite confinement at the Camp X-ray military base in Guantana- mo, Cuba. Coyne was appointed to the Military Commission Civilian Defense Counsel panel in 2008 and presently represents a high value detainee facing capital charges. Professor Coyne currently serves on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a frequent consultant on issues of criminal law, capital punishment and terrorism matters for national news media and has been interviewed on ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, Fox and Friends, Dateline, Nightline, The O’Reilly Factor and National Public Radio.

50 STANLEY L. EVANS Assistant Dean for Students Cindy Foley B.B.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 1977 Assistant Professor of Clinical Education M.B.A., University of Texas at Tyler, 1979 Staff Attorney, University of Oklahoma College of Law Legal Clinic J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2003 BA, Magna Cum Laude, Email: [email protected] University of Central Oklahoma 1979 JD, University of Oklahoma 1983

Stanley L. Evans joined the University of Oklahoma Cindy Foley joined the College of Law as the Assis- OU College of Law Legal tant Dean for Students, Clinic in August 1991. She immediately after law school teaches and directly super- graduation. He entered law vises licensed legal interns in school at the age of 52 after the criminal division of the almost 32 years of active OU Legal Clinic. She also Army service. Dean Evans teaches the Criminal Litiga- rose to the rank of Colonel tion Skills Class. and previously held posi- Ms. Foley began her tions as Dean of Students legal career as an assistant and Administration of the public defender in Oklaho- U.S. Army’s Command and ma County until 1990. She General Staff College at Fort handled a variety of criminal Leavenworth Kansas; and trials including capital mur- as Garrison Commander of der trials. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Ms. Foley is the recipient Colonel Evans commanded at every level of the Army through of the Outstanding Accomplishment Award by the Oklahoma Crimi- brigade level, culminating with command of Fort Leavenworth where nal Defense Lawyer’s Association in 1988 for her work in winning a his command twice won the Malcolm Baldrige $75,000 cash award as “not guilty” verdict in a capital murder trial. the second best installation in the United States Army. As former Dean of the Command and General Staff College, he initiating a $66 million dollar construction project and for developing an automation system that will service the needs of the attending offi- JONATHAN B. FORMAN cers, staff and faculty well into the 21st Century. This project is now Alfred P. Murrah Professor of Law the completed Lewis and Clark Hall that houses the College. B.A. Northwestern University, 1973 He is a Vietnam veteran, and has had several tours in the Wash- M.A. Psychology, University of Iowa, 1975 ington D.C., area. Assistant Dean Evans returned to Oklahoma in J.D., University of Michigan, 1978 2000, with his wife Saundra, who is an elementary school teacher. M.A., Economics, George Washington University, 1983 In addition to his duties as Assistant Dean, His major military Email: [email protected] awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star. He also is in the Fort Sill Oklahoma Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Silver Order of Mercury by the U.S. Army Signal Regiment. He has served on the school board of Professor Jonathan B. Anchorage, Alaska, and has been recognized as “Man of the Year” by Forman teaches Individual organizations in both Tyler, Texas, and Leavenworth, Kansas. He has Income Tax, Corporate Tax, also written several articles for military and legal publications. and Pension and Health While a student at OU Law in 2000-2003, Dean Evans received Care Benefits. Forman is several top academic and community service awards. Assistant Dean also Vice Chair of the board Evans was admitted to the bar in 2003 and is licensed to practice law of trustees of the Oklahoma in Oklahoma. Public Employees Retire- Evans was appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma to the Okla- ment System (OPERS). homa Human Rights Commission and he became the Chairman in Prior to joining OU in 1985, 2008. Forman was an attorney and editor of Tax Notes in Arlington, VA. He began his law career in 1978 as a law clerk for Judge Robert J. Yock of the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. From 1979 to 1983, he served as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1983-84, he was tax counsel for U.S. Senator Daniel

51 Patrick Moynihan. Forman is the author of Making America Work Steven S. Gensler (Urban Institute Press, 2006), and he has more than 250 other publi- Professor of Law cations. In addition to his many scholarly publications, Forman has President’s Associates Presidential Professor a monthly column with the Journal Record newspaper of Oklahoma B.S. Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1988 City, and he has published op-eds in Barron’s, the Dallas Morning J.D., summa cum laude, University of Illinois, News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Washington Times, the Daily Urbana-Champaign, 1992 Oklahoman, Pensions and Investments, and Tax Notes. Email: [email protected] Forman was a founding member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (2001- 2003), and he was a delegate to the 1998 and 2002 National Summits Professor Steven S. Gensler on Retirement Savings. Forman has also testified before the U.S. Sen- teaches Civil Procedure, Fed- ate Finance Committee, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, eral Courts, Complex Litiga- the U.S. Department of Labor’s Advisory Council on Employee Wel- tion, and Conflict of Laws. He fare and Pension Benefit Plans, and the Oklahoma Legislature. joined the OU faculty in 2000 Forman was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1978 and after spending two years as a to the Oklahoma Bar in 2003. He is active in the American Bar Associa- Visiting Assistant Professor at tion and the Association of American Law Schools, and he served as a the University of Illinois Col- member of the board of trustees of the American Tax Policy Institute lege of Law. In 2006, he was from 1998-2003. Forman is also a fellow of the American College of Tax named as a President’s Associ- Counsel, a fellows program associate of the Employee Benefit Research ates Presidential Professor. Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the During 2003-04, Gensler was National Tax Association, and the American Economic Association. the Supreme Court Fellow at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Professor Gensler cur- darin k. fox rently serves as a member of Director of the Law Library the Advisory Committee for Associate Professor of Law the Federal Rules of Civil Pro- B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1989 cedure. He also serves on the Local Civil Rules Committee for the Western J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1992 District of Oklahoma, is active in The Sedona Conference, and is an elected M.S., University of Illinois, 1993 member of the American Law Institute. Gensler is the past Chair (2007) Email: [email protected] and a current Executive Committee member of the Association of Ameri- can Law Schools’ Section on Civil Procedure. Professor Gensler is the author of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Rules and Commentary (Thomson/Reuters), a leading treatise on the Federal Darin Fox joined the law faculty in 2005 as Director of Rules for practicing attorneys. He also speaks and writes extensively in the the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law. areas of Federal and Oklahoma practice and procedure. Fox previously served at Professor Gensler attended the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Southern where he graduated first in his class and served as Editor-in-Chief of the California Law School from University of Illinois Law Review. He then clerked for The Honorable 1994 to 2004. From 2000 to Deanell Reece Tacha of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit 2004, he was Associate Dean (1992-93) and for the Honorable Kathryn H. Vratil of the U.S. District for Information Technology Court for the District of Kansas (1993-94). In between clerking and teach- and Law Library. From 1996 ing, Professor Gensler practiced as a litigation associate in Milwaukee, Wis- to 2000, he served as Direc- consin, most recently with Michael, Best & Friedrich, LLP. tor of Information Technol- ogy, and from 1994-1995, he was the Computer Services/ Systems Librarian. At USC, his responsibilities included library and technology planning and teaching legal research. He teaches Advanced Legal Research and team- teaches legal research in the first year Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy program. Associate Professor Fox’s research interests include the intersection of law libraries and information technology. Specifically, he is interested in how technology is impacting information delivery, research strategies, and collection policies. He is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries.

52 Jennifer Gerrish Supreme Court Response, in International Perspectives on Church and State 29 (Menachem Mor ed., 1993); when Editor-in-Chief, Oklahoma Assistant Professor of Legal Research Law Review, published A Symposium on Law and Christianity, 12 B.A., University of Colorado, 1994 Okla.L.Rev. 45 (1959). J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1997 Other publications: Cases and Material on Oklahoma Criminal M.L.S., University of Oklahoma, 2005 Procedure, Volumes I & II, first published in 1970, most recent edition Email: [email protected] 2001; With A. Massad and R.Layden, The Massad Commission Report to the Tribal Council of the Cherokee Nation, 23 Am.Indian L.Rev. 375 (1999); ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Discovery and Proce- Gerrish graduated from dures Before Trial (Reporter) (approved draft, 1970). OU Law in 1997 and prac- Admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1959, Gibbens is a member of a ticed law in Oklahoma City variety of professional and honorary organizations, including Order of and Norman. She obtained the Coif, the American Bar Association, and the Oklahoma Bar Asso- her MLIS degree from OU in ciation. He has served as president of the Cleveland County Bar Asso- 2005, graduating summa cum ciation. In 1997 he received an Oklahoma Bar Presidential Citation for laude. She is a member of the “Distinguished Pro Bono Service to the Cherokee Indian Nation as a Member of the Massad Commission,” the report of which is published Ginsburg Inn of Court, and at 23 Am. Indian L. Rev. 375 (1998-99). American Association of Law From 1977 to 2005, Gibbens served as OU’s NCAA Faculty Athlet- Libraries and the Mid-America ics Representative. He served on numerous NCAA and Big 12 (previ- Association of Law Libraries. ously Big 8) Conference committees, notably on the Big Eight and Big She assists students, faculty, 12 Television Negotiating Committees. He was Commanding Officer, attorneys, and public patrons Naval Reserve Division, Norman, 1966-68 with legal research, and teaches Since 1984, he has delivered talks to bar, service, and church legal research in the first year groups in 20 Oklahoma communities, related to “Are We a Christian Legal Research, Writing, and Nation?” including public school prayer—updated to include current Advocacy program. U.S. Supreme Court decisions—a formal version of which is published Jennifer Gerrish joined the in International Perspectives on Church and State 29 (Menachem Mor library in 2005 as Law Refer- ed., 1993). In 1958-59, he was Editor-in-Chief, Oklahoma Law Review. ence Librarian. She previously served as Reference Librarian at Oklahoma City University Law Library. MARK R. GILLETT Professor of Law B.A., College of William and Mary, 1975 DANIEL G. GIBBENS J.D., Arizona State University, 1977 Regents’ Professor of Law, Emeritus LL.M., New York University, 1982 B.A., Yale University, 1954 Email: [email protected] J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1959 LL.M., Columbia University, 1965 Email at: [email protected] Professor Mark R. Gillett, who joined the OU law faculty Daniel G. Gibbens, in 1987, teaches Wealth Trans- retired 2005, but still teach- fer Taxation, Wills and Trusts, ing Church-State Relations Estate Planning, and Fiduciary Seminar. On OU law faculty Income Tax. since 1962. Gillett was admitted to the Following law school, Iowa Bar in 1978 and prac- Gibbens was law clerk for ticed law and was a partner in Chief Judge A.P. Murrah of Stanley, Lande and Hunter, a the U.S. 10th Circuit, 1959- firm in Muscatine, Iowa, prior 60. From 1960 to 1962, he to joining the faculty. practiced with Fuller, Smith, Mosburg & Davis, Okla- For years, he was the homa City. On leave from author of estate practice OU in 1977, he was Visiting software which was origi- Professor of Law and Bailey nally published by Shepard’s/ Lecturer, Louisiana State McGraw-Hill in 1985 and University. subsequently published by Publications related to the West Group. He recently First Amendment religious released the Gillett Estate Management Suite which prepares federal estate freedoms: Church-State and gift tax returns and fiduciary accountings. Relations [course book] (first published in 1988, most recent edition He also has also written articles relating to the federal estate tax and 2007); two entries in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (ed. P. the administration of estates and trusts. Finkelman), “Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette”, v.1, p.246; “Secular Humanism and the Public Schools”, v.3, p.1473 (2006); draft of proposed legislation for Oklahoma Legislature, “Truth About Science Act,” concerning teaching evolution and intelligent design in the public schools (2008), available on request; Public School Education About Beginnings: Creationism No! Truth About Science, Yes!, 55 Okla. L. Rev. 613 (2002); Are We a Christian Nation? The U.S. 53 versity, the University of California-Davis, the University of Iowa, Arizona Katie Griffin State, and the University of Oklahoma. Guzman is currently working on an Director of the Office of Professional and Career Development Oklahoma wills and trusts treatise with Professor Mark Gillett. B.A., University of Oklahoma, 2002 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007 Email: [email protected] TaiAWAGI Helton Professor of Law B.A., Ohio State University, 1995 J.D., University of Tulsa, 1999, with highest honors Griffin, who earned her LL.M., Yale Law School, 2001 Bachelor of Business Admin- Email: [email protected] istration in Finance and Mar- keting, received the award for Outstanding Senior Woman. Professor Taiawagi Helton While at the OU College of joined the faculty in 2001, and Law she was selected by faculty teaches Environmental Law, as a member of the Order of Property, and Indian Law. Hel- Barris ters. She practiced in the ton received his juris doctorate area of employment litigation at the University of Tulsa Col- for the law firm of Geary, Por- lege of Law, where he earned ter & Donovan, P.C., in Dallas, certificates in Environmental Texas. Law, Indian Law, and Public Ms. Griffin currently Policy. He also served as Edi- serves as Co-Chair for the tor-in-Chief of the Tulsa Law YWCA Purple Sash Gala and Journal and earned member- serves on the Executive Board ship in the Order of the Curule for the JCPenney Leadership Chair and Phi Kappa Phi. Center at the Michael F. Price He began his legal career College of Business and the as a clerk for the Honorable Executive Board for Norman NEXT. She is a member of the Lyric Under- Robert H. Henry, U.S. Court of studies and serves as a liaison for the Oklahoma Bar Association Profes- Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. sionalism Committee. He has lectured extensively on topics relating to Native American issues and has served as a Special Justice for the Cheyenne and KATHELEEN R. GUZMAN Arapaho Tribes Supreme Court. A member of the Board of Directors of Professor of Law Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Helton’s recent publications include “The MAPCO/Williams Presidential Professor Foundations of Federal Indian Law and Its Application in the Twentieth B.A., University of Arkansas, 1987, with honors Century,” in Daniel M. Cobb & Loretta Fowler, eds., Beyond Red Power: J.D., University of Arkansas, 1991, with highest honors American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 (SAR Press 2007) (co- LL.M., Yale Law School, 1992 author). Email: [email protected] michelle johnson Professor Katheleen Guz- Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing man served as Visiting Associ- B.A., English, Oklahoma City University, 1988 ate Professor at OU during J.D., summa cum laude, Oklahoma City University, 1991 the 1993-94 academic year, and was hired as a permanent member of the OU law faculty Michelle Johnson gradu- in 1994. She has taught prop- ated summa cum laude from erty, wills and trusts, Indian Oklahoma City University in land titles, land use, and real 1991 and was voted “Outstand- estate transactions, and was ing Graduate” by the law facul- the associate dean for academ- ty. Johnson was the managing ics and associate director of editor of the Oklahoma City the Law School from 2003 to University Law Review, which 2006. She has earned teaching published her case comment. awards within the college of A recipient of both Hatton law and on main campus. W. Sumner and Phi Delta Phi Guzman served as articles Balfour scholarships, Johnson editor for the Arkansas Law received American Jurispru- Review and participated in the dence awards in Contracts I, Georgetown University Law Criminal Law, Professional Center Program in Interna- Responsibility, and Torts I. tional Law in 1989. Before joining the OU faculty, Guzman worked as a liti- She practiced law for sev- gation associate for the Philadelphia firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, and eral years at Andrews, Davis, Kauffman. She has been visiting professor of law at Villanova. Legg, Bixler, Milsten and Price A member of the Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Arkansas Bars, Guzman in Oklahoma City, where she lectures nationally on property subjects for students preparing for the bar had the opportunity to work examination, and has actively contributed to newsletters published by real on a wide variety of civil cases. After working in private banking, Johnson property and probate and trust law bars. More extensive scholarship appears spent several years working for Cleveland County CASA, Inc., a nonprofit in law reviews published by the University of Arkansas, Washington Uni- for which she continues to volunteer that provides advocates for children in the abuse and neglect system. 54 In 2004 Johnson served as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, teaching Law and Literature with Dr. Ronald Steve KNIPPENBERG Schleifer. In addition to teaching Legal Writing at the College of Law, she is Floyd and Martha Norris Chair in Law an associate editor at World Literature Today magazine. Professor of Law B.A., University of Dayton, 1974 J.D., University of Tulsa, 1980 DREW L. KERSHEN LL.M., Temple University, 1987 Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law Email: [email protected] Professor of Law B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1966 J.D., University of Texas, 1968 Professor Steve Knippen- LL.M., Harvard University, 1975 berg joined the Law Faculty in 1990, and was named Floyd and Email: [email protected] Martha Norris Chair in Law in 2005. At the College of Law, Professor Knippenberg teaches Professor Drew Kershen, Commercial Law, Bankruptcy, who joined the OU law faculty and Contracts. In addition, he in 1971, teaches Agricultural has taught in those substantive Law, Legal History, Professional areas as a Visiting Professor at Responsibility, and Water Rights. the University of Pennsylvania In recent years, Professor Kershen Law School and the University of has focused his teaching, research, Illinois College of Law. and lecturing on agricultural bio- Professor Knippenberg is an technology law and policy. active Bankruptcy and Com- After receiving his juris doc- mercial Law scholar. He has pub- torate in 1968, he entered private lished scholarly articles on those practice in Atlanta. In 1973, he subjects in some of the country’s was named a fellow in law and leading journals, including NYU, University of Michigan, the University of humanities at Harvard University. Virginia, and Northwestern law reviews. He held visiting professorships at Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma law faculty, Professor Knip- the universities of Kansas, Illinois, penberg was an Associate Professor at the University of Toledo College of and Arkansas Little Rock. During Law. Before entering the academic community, he was an attorney for Shell summer 1999, Professor Kershen Oil Company in Houston, Texas. held a Fulbright Teaching Fel- lowship to the Universidad Jose Cecilio del Valle in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. PETER F. KRUG Kershen is coauthor of Farm Products Financing and Filing Service, writ- Herman G. Kaiser Foundation Chair in International Law ten in 1990 with J. Thomas Hardin. He has authored more than forty other Professor of Law books chapters, grant reports, and law review articles. B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1967 Admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1969 (inactive) and the Oklahoma Bar M.S., Northwestern University, 1969 in 1972, Kershen is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979 Kershen is a past member of the Oklahoma Water Law Advisory Commis- J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985 sion, the Board of Directors of the American Agricultural Law Association, Email: [email protected] a past trustee to the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and past President of the American Agricultural Law Association. Kershen received the University of Oklahoma Merrick Teaching Award Professor Peter Krug joined in 2001. In 2004, the American Agricultural Law Association honored him the OU Law faculty in 1991 with its Professional Scholarship Award for two published articles on agri- after serving for six years as cultural biotechnology. an associate with the firm of Foley and Lardner in Madison, Wisconsin. He teaches Com- parative Law, European Union Law, Human Rights Law, Inter- national Business Transactions, International Criminal Law, International Trade Regulation, News Media Law, and Public International Law. Krug is the author of a number of publications on the topics of foreign legal systems and comparative news media law. He is U.S. Supreme Court Liaison to the European Commission For Democ- racy Through Law, a Senior Research Associate with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, has served as a lecturer at law schools in Croa- tia, France, Russia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom, and has participated in foreign constitutional and media law projects, particularly in central and eastern Europe. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and a number of professional organizations devoted to comparative, international, and media law. 55 PETER B KUTNER versity of California, Hastings College of the Law. Besides occasional teaching stints in the University of Oklahoma’s Oxford Program, she Hugh Roff Professor of Law also has taught summer school at the University of Utah, the Univer- A.B., Cornell University, 1969 sity of San Diego and the University of Wisconsin. J.D., Harvard University, 1972 Professor Maute writes and lectures extensively, with special focus on Legal Ethics, Legal History, Contracts, and Dispute Resolution. She has authored more than thirty publications, with recent works in Professor Peter B Kutner began his career as a faculty member the law reviews at Fordham, Tulane, Northwestern, Georgetown and in 1973 at the University of Sydney in Australia. He joined OU as an Utah. Her recent ethics scholarship addresses the evolution of lawyers’ assistant professor in 1975. In 1980-81 he was a visiting professor at pro bono responsibilities, system design for the delivery of legal ser- the University of Illinois. He also has been a visiting professor at uni- vices to under-served communities, and judicial selection in Ameri- versities in Austria, France, Japan and The Netherlands. He has taught Torts, Advanced Torts, Conflict of Laws, and Comparative Law, with can states and in the United Kingdom. Her historical reconstruction an emphasis on Common Law Legal Systems outside the United of “Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal and Mining Co. Revisited: The Bal- States. lad of Willie and Lucille,” a famous Oklahoma contracts case, was Kutner was a University of Oklahoma Associates Distinguished published by the Northwestern Law Review in 1995. It is considered Lecturer in 1988-89. In 2000 he was appointed to the Hugh Roff a forerunner of a scholarly genre on legal narratives, which examines Professorship. He is an affiliate faculty member of the School of Inter- important judicial decisions, revisiting the underlying facts in light of national and Area Studies. He has received two Fulbright awards: a their legal, social and political context. A condensed version appears Fulbright Lectureship in Japan at Tohoku University in 1996-97 and in Contracts Stories (Douglas G. Baird, Editor, Foundation Press). A a second Fulbright Lectureship in Japan at Waseda University and documentary film about the case for use in law school classrooms is Japan Women’s University in 2003-04. available. Some of her current ethics scholarship addresses fundamen- Admitted to the Colorado Bar in 1972 and Supreme Court of the tal reforms to the English legal professions that are expected to have United States in 1976, Kutner is a member of the American Bar Asso- significant impact on globalization of legal services. ciation, American Law Institute, and Canadian Association of Law Active in national academic and professional organizations, Teachers. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Maute chaired the Section on Professional Responsibility and the Sec- ACLU of Oklahoma, Board of Advisors of the OU Office of Interna- tion on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American tional Programs, and the AALS-CALT Joint Committee on Canadian- Law Schools (AALS), served on the Multi-State Professional Respon- American Cooperation. He has been an arbitrator for the U.S. District sibility Test-Drafting Committee, and on law school accreditation site Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and for the American inspection teams for the AALS and the American Bar Association. On Arbitration Association. a local level, Maute serves on the Oklahoma Bar Association Rules of Kutner is author of Advanced Torts: Cases and Materials (with Professional Conduct Committee, the Access to Justice Committee, Professor Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr.), Common Law in Southern Africa: Conflict of Laws and Torts Precedents, and numerous articles, and the Standing Committee on Women in Law. primarily on tort law and conflict of laws, published in American and foreign law journals. Brian McCall Associate Professor of Law JUDITH L. MAUTE B.A., Yale University, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991 William J. Alley Professor of Law M.A. Kings College University of London, Fulbright Scholar, 1992 President’s Associates Presidential Professor J.D. University of Pennsylvania, Summa Cum Laude, Order of the A.B., University of Indiana, Bloomington, 1971 Coif, 1997 J.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1978 Email: [email protected] LL.M., Yale University, 1982 Email: [email protected] Professor McCall teaches courses in Contracts and Professor Maute teaches Commercial Law. Contracts, Basic and After completing his Advanced courses in Profes- Undergraduate and Masters sional Responsibility and the degrees, Professor McCall Law of Lawyering, and Fem- taught English in a private inist Jurisprudence. She is high school for two years the founder and director of before commencing his law the University of Oklahoma’s degree. He received honors law student pro bono pro- for obtaining the highest gram, Students for Access to grades over the three year Justice (SATJ) law degree and for his spe- Before entering legal cific work in Corporations, education, Professor Maute Torts and Wills and Future was a litigator with Titus Interests. During his third Marcus and Shapira, and year of law school, Profes- Baskin and Sears, private sor McCall taught foreign firms in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- lawyers studying for their vania. She joined the faculty L.L.M. a course in Legal Writing and Research. of the University of Oklaho- After obtaining his law degree, Professor McCall joined the inter- ma in 1982, and has taught national law firm of Dechert LLP where he focused on cross border as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, the University of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. In 1999 he Cincinnati, Willamette University, Ohio State University, and the Uni- transferred to the firm’s London office to further develop this practice 56 and to oversee the merger with a London-based firm of approximately Emily Hammond Meazell 130 English lawyers. In 2004 he was elected a partner of the firm. Some of Associate Professor of Law the clients he advised included Citigroup, JP Morgan, The London Stock B.S., cum laude, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996 Exchange, Comcast Corporation, Tate and Lyle Plc and Rabobank. He J.D., summa cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law, 2002 worked on many ground-breaking transactions including one of the first public-to-private transactions in Germany and the first U.S. company conducting a Regulation S offering on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Market. Emily Hammond Meazell joined the OU Law faculty in Professor McCall has been a speaker at several national and interna- the fall of 2007 after having tional conferences and has had articles published or accepted for publica- served as a visiting assistant tion in the Cardozo Law Review, Tennessee Law Review and the Journal professor at University of of Catholic Legal Studies as well as several legal practice periodicals. Georgia School of Law. She teaches Torts, Administrative Law, Local Government Law, WILLIAM J. McNICHOLS and a Law and Science semi- Welcome D. and W. DeVier Pierson Professor of Law, Emeritus nar. Professor Meazell began A.B., Canisius College, 1959 her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Richard W. Story of J.D., Georgetown University, 1962 the U.S. District Court for the Email: [email protected] Northern District of Georgia. Following her clerkship, she served as an associate at the Professor William J. McNichols has been on the OU faculty since law firm Bondurant, Mixon 1968, and teaches Torts, Prod- and Elmore LLP in Atlanta, ucts Liability, Health Law, and Georgia. While with the firm, Bioethics Law. she worked on all aspects of From 1966 to 1968, civil litigation in cases ranging from complex business disputes to pro bono McNichols was in private civil rights suits. practice with the Rochester, Professor Meazell graduated summa cum laude from University of New York firm of Harris, Georgia School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif, Beach, Wilcox, Dale and elected to the Order of Barristers and served as senior notes editor of the Linowitz. Prior to that, he Georgia Law Review. A former civil engineer who practiced in the envi- served as an instructor in the ronmental field prior to attending law school, Professor Meazell earned a Procurement Law Division of B.S., cum laude, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate where she was inducted into Tau Beta Pi. She focuses her research on law General’s School. and science and water law. Her scholarship includes several peer-reviewed Admitted to the New York scientific publications as well as Scientific Avoidance: Toward More Prin- Bar in 1962 and the Okla- cipled Judicial Review of Legislative Science, which is forthcoming in the homa Bar in 1974, McNichols Indiana Law Journal. is a member of the American Bar Association, the Okla- homa Bar Association, the Oklahoma Health Lawyers Association and the American Society of Law and Medicine. He was elected to American Law Institute in 1997 and serves on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement (3rd) of Torts. Professor McNichols is the author of numerous articles, in the Torts, Products Liability and Health Law areas.

57 Gail mullins JOYCE PALOMAR Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law B.S. Medical Technology, Oklahoma State University, 1972 B.S., with honors, University of Nebraska, 1975 Internship Medical Technology, University of Oklahoma Health M.A., University of Nebraska, 1977 Sciences Center, 1972 J.D., with distinction, University of Nebraska, 1986 J.D. with Highest Honors, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1993 Email: [email protected]

Gail Mullins received a bachelor’s degree in Medical Professor Palomar teaches Technology from Oklahoma Property, Real Estate Transac- State University and completed tions, Land Use Controls, and a clinical internship at the International Land Law and University of Oklahoma Health Policy. Sciences Center, where she In 2000 she served as was named the Outstanding the John F. Lehmann Distin- Student in her graduating class. guished Visiting Professor She is certified as a Specialist in at Washington University in Hematology by the American St. Louis, Missouri and in Society of Clinical Pathologists. 2002 taught and conducted Ms. Mullins received a research as a Fulbright Schol- J.D. with highest honors from ar at East China University of the University of Oklahoma, Law and Political Science. where she received the Nathan Professor Palomar has Scarritt Law Prize, the James F. published numerous articles Hawes Memorial Cup Award, the McKinney Stringer and on the subject of land ten- Webster Scholarship, the West ure security and economic Publishing Scholarship, the Phi Delta Phi National Scholarship, and development, land title law, eight American Jurisprudence Awards. She served as Note Editor for the and real property law, most recently in the Duke Journal of Comparative Oklahoma Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. She and International Law and the William and Mary Law Review. She also published Family Law: Placement of Child Support Liens on Life Insurance is author of the two-volume treatise, Title Insurance Law (1994 Thomson Proceeds After Death of the Insured in Abrego v. Abrego, 45 Oklahoma Law West) and of the four-volume treatise, Patton and Palomar on Land Titles, Review 717 (1992). 3rd Edition (2003, Thomson West). In addition, she has published a case- Ms. Mullins is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the book, entitled Property, with Carolina Academic Press. American Bar Association, and the Legal Writing Institute. She has Academic conferences at which Professor Palomar has spoken served as adjunct faculty in the Legal Research and Writing program, has include: Conference on Property Rights and Economic Development been in the private practice of law, including serving as a lobbyist to the sponsored by the College of William and Mary Bill of Rights Institute; Oklahoma state legislature. She teaches Legal Research and Writing and Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism Appellate Advocacy at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. sponsored by Syracuse University; Thomas F. Gallivan Conference on Real Property Law at University of Connecticut School of Law; Sino- Dan Nicholson American Forum on Chinese Property Law at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Chinese Property Law Conference at Beijing University. Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing B.A., Phillips University, 1992 Professor Palomar presented her research on land tenure security J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2001 in China at a 2002 seminar at the World Bank. In 2002 she also testified at the invitation of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission at a public hearing on barriers to electronic commerce of real estate. She has lectured as Nicholson, after his early well at numerous conferences sponsored by the American Law Institute, graduation from the Univer- American Bar Association, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, sity of Oklahoma College of and American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Law in December of 2001 and Professor Palomar is a member of the American College of Real admission to the Oklahoma Estate Lawyers and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and Bar in 2002, began working serves as General Counsel to the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Real Prop- with a large oil and gas firm. erty Law Section. Nicholson used his outstanding research and writing skills to help settle multi-million dollar oil and gas litigation. In the fall of 2002 Nicholson was offered the opportunity to return to the College of Law to help implement a new legal research and writing program and to be part of a team of professional legal research and writing instructors. Nicholson enjoys teaching the components that are critical to the ethical and competent practice of law. Nicholson strives to offer classes that allow students to tap into their abilities, develop important legal skills, and ultimately learn how to articulate their thoughts and ideas on the law. 58 Mary Margaret Penrose Amy Pepper Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Clinical Education B.A. History, University of Texas at Arlington, 1989 B.A., Tulane University, 1984 J.D., magna cum laude, Pepperdine University, 1993 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1987 L.L.M., summa cum laude, Notre Dame, 1999 Email: [email protected] Amy Pepper teaches and supervises legal interns in the Professor Mary Margaret civil division of the Clinic. “Meg” Penrose joined the Her areas of practice faculty of the University of include Family Law, Public Oklahoma College of Law in Benefits, and General Civil 2000. She received tenure in Poverty Law. 2006. Her areas of emphasis She worked as a staff include Federal Civil Proce- attorney at the Legal Aid dure, Criminal Procedure, Society of the District of Education Law, Civil Rights, Columbia before coming to Federal Habeas Corpus, the College of Law. Death Penalty, Gender Dis- Professor Pepper has crimination and Alternate been admitted to practice in Dispute Resolution. She Oklahoma and the District of currently teaches courses Columbia. She serves or has in Civil Procedure, Crimi- served on numerous civic nal Procedure and Gender and professional boards and Discrimination. Professor committees, including the Oklahoma Licensed Marriage and Family Penrose enjoys working Therapist advisory board, the Cleveland County Bench and Bar Com- with students outside the classroom as well. She has coached numer- mittee, the Sooner Theatre, and Full Circle Senior Adult Day Center. ous moot court teams, including several BLSA teams that advanced to nationals, two APALSA teams that advanced to nationals and the Sports Law teams. In addition, Professor Penrose currently serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Oklahoma Law Review. DAVID A. POARCH Professor Penrose’s career began as a senior law clerk for the Hon- Assistant Dean, External Affairs orable Jerry Buchmeyer, now retired from the United States District B.A., University of Central Oklahoma, History, 1973 Court for the Northern District of Texas. She also served as Staff J.D., University of Oklahoma, College of Law, 1977 Attorney to the Honorable Jane J. Boyle, now a federal District Judge Email: [email protected] for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. While working with Judges Buchmeyer and Boyle, Penrose developed a love for and expertise in federal litigation, especially habeas corpus. A 1977 graduate of the Penrose is the author of several articles on international human University of Oklahoma Col- rights, criminal procedure and civil procedure. She is currently work- lege of Law, David A. Poarch ing with Professor Bernie James on an Education Law textbook. was appointed Assistant At Pepperdine, Penrose served as the Managing Editor of the Pep- Dean for External Affairs and perdine Law Review and competed on several moot court teams. She Adjunct Professor of Law in is a member of the Texas Bar and the Bar of the United States District 1997. Following several years Court for the Northern District of Texas, the Western District of of public service as an Assis- Oklahoma and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. tant United States Attorney Penrose performs extensive pro bono work. She is currently for the Western District of working with numerous Texas Death row inmates. In addition, Pen- Oklahoma, he was engaged rose works on many criminal defense, education law and Title IX in the private practice of cases. She was awarded the Arkansas Traveler for work with school law for more than 10 years, safety issues and is a multi-year member of the Texas Pro Bono representing individuals and College. businesses in a variety of litigated matters. In addition, immediately prior to joining the college, for six years he served as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for the Oklahoma subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company. Dean Poarch is a member of the American Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Association, and numerous local bar associations in Oklahoma, as well as a number of active State Bar Committees. He is licensed to practice in all Oklahoma state and federal courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Dean Poarch also serves as a Master of the Luther Bohanon Chapter of the Ameri- can Inns of Court and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 59 Srividhya Ragavan Liesa Richter Associate Professor of Law Associate Dean for Admissions, Scholarships and Recruiting B.A., LL.B. (Honors), National Law School of India University. Associate Professor of Law LL.M., King’s College, University of London. B.S., University of Florida, 1992 S.J.D, George Washington University J.D., University of Florida, 1995 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Srividhya Ragavan joined Professor Liesa Richter the OU law faculty in 2003. is a 1992 graduate of the She teaches Intellectual University of Florida. She Property (IP) Survey, Patent received her J.D. with high honors from the University Law, Trademarks Law, of Florida College of Law International IP Seminar and in 1995. At Florida, Richter the Law of Contracts. received the Irving Cypen Ragavan’s scholarship Scholastic Achievement focuses on the interplay Award, served as the senior between International Trade notes and comments editor and Intellectual Property on the Florida Law Review, law. Her work emphasizes and was selected as a mem- issues developing nations ber of the Order of the Coif. face from embracing Professor Richter began her career in the Atlanta the trade regime. Her office of King and Spalding publications have on the business litigation expounded diverse topics team, where she defended like traditional knowledge, firm clients in securities pharmaceutical patenting and agricultural subsidies. Ragavan has also fraud class actions, employment discrimination cases, and breast written extensively on India specifically in relation to IP and trade implant class actions. Richter then served as a law clerk to the Honor- issues. able Jack T. Camp, United States District Court Judge for the North- Ragavan has been a speaker at several conferences. Ragavan serves ern District of Georgia. She also completed a clerkship for the Hon- as a visiting faculty for the IP program at National Academy for Legal orable Frank Mays Hull, United States Circuit Judge for the United Scholarship and Research in Hyderabad, India. Prior to joining OU, States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Richter is a member of the Georgia Bar and the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals Ragavan taught law at the National Law School of India in Bangalore. As for the Eleventh Circuit. a faculty of the National Law School, Ragavan has served in the Second Professor Richter joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Core Group Committee set up to amend the Copyright statute by the College of Law in 2001. She currently teaches Torts and Evidence. Her Ministry of Human Resource and Development, India. research and scholarship focus primarily in those areas. After graduating with a B.A., LL.B. (Honors) from the National Law School, Ragavan received the Common Wealth Scholarship to pursue LL.M. from King’s College, London. She was the first Texas Instruments Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle. Later, she THEODORE P. ROBERTS completed her S.J.D. from the George Washington University School Professor of Law, Emeritus of Law. Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of Law B.S., University of Oklahoma, 1961 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1964 Email: [email protected]

Professor Emeritus Ted Roberts still teaches part time in the area of Advocacy, including Pretrial Litiga- tion, Trial Techniques, and Jury Trial Advocacy. He was the director of the Graduate School for Successful Trial Advocacy, an intensive trial program for students and young lawyers. He also was the director and taught in the Oklahoma Legal Aid Clinic. Roberts shares his expertise on prisoners’ rights by teaching courses on that subject. Since coming to OU Law in 1969, Roberts has served 60 as assistant dean of the College of Law as well assistant director and Roloff has extensive civil and criminal litigation experience and later director of Clinical Legal Education. He began his legal career is licensed to practice in the Western, Northern, and Eastern District in 1964 as assistant county attorney for Caddo County in Anadarko, Federal Courts of Oklahoma, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Oklahoma, later becoming county attorney. From 1967 to 1969, he the U.S. Supreme Court. served as assistant district attorney of Jackson County in Altus, Okla- homa. Admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1964, Roberts has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the association and LINDSAY G. ROBERTSON has served on various committees, including the Legal Ethics Com- Orpha and Maurice Merril Professor of Law mittee, Mandatory Legal Education Committee, and currently the Sam K. Viersen Jr. Presidential Professor Evidence Code Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Board to Faculty Director, American Indian Law and Policy Center the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Alternate Dispute Resolutions. He A.B., Davidson College, 1981 has been active in the Law School Admissions Council and served as M.A., University of Virginia, 1986 chair of the Misconduct and Irregularities Committee, chair of the J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986 Audit Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees. He retired Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997 as municipal judge for the city of Norman after serving 38 years. Email: [email protected] Roberts has served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in many regional programs including the southern and Florida programs, the National Program and the Advanced Litigation Professor Lindsay G. Rob- Program. He is a past president of the Luther Bohanon American Inns ertson joined the law faculty of Court XXIII. in 1998, after serving as a He was awarded an Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of visiting professor in 1997-98. Law. He has served on many university and law school committees at the He teaches courses in Indian University of Oklahoma during the 38 years he was teaching full time. Law, Constitutional Law and Roberts is coauthor of Oklahoma Traffic Court Handbook and The Legal History. He is a Sam Judges Evidence Book with Professor Robert Smith and Professor Leo K. Viersen Jr., Presidential Whinery which was published in 2004. Professor and Faculty Direc- tor of the OU Law Center- based Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Janet D. Roloff Policy. Robertson received Assistant Professor of Clinical Education his undergraduate degree B.A., Northeastern Oklahoma State University, 1974 at Davidson College and a J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1977 masters from the University Email: [email protected] of Virginia, along with a J.D. from the University of Vir- ginia School of Law in 1986. Janet D. Roloff joined He finalized his formal education with a Ph.D. in history from the Uni- the OU College of Law at versity of Virginia in 1997. the University of Oklahoma Prior to coming to OU Law, Robertson served as a lecturer in Legal Clinic this year. federal Indian law at the University of Virginia School of Law and After receiving her Juris at the George Washington University National Law Center. He also Doctorate from the Univer- was a research and visiting fellow at the Philadelphia Center for Early sity of Oklahoma College American Studies. of Law in 1977, she became He worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Charlottes Assistant City Attorney for ville, Virginia, and as a judicial clerk at the United States District The City of Norman, Okla- Court for the District of Delaware. Robertson is currently serving as a homa. In 1980, she became Special Justice on the Supreme Court for the Cheyenne and Arapaho the Chief General Counsel of Tribes of Oklahoma. He is currently special counsel on Indian Affairs the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. During her to Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry and was the same for past Okla- time there, Roloff partici- homa Governor Frank Keating. He served as advisor to the United pated in drafting a number States Delegations to the Working Groups on the United Nations Draft of Oklahoma’s criminal and Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Organiza- governmental process stat- tion of American States Draft American Declaration on the Rights of utes. She was also a prolific Indigenous Peoples. writer in the field of criminal investigative procedure. She retired from Robertson is the author of Conquest by Law (Oxford University OSBI in 2000 and began private practice by serving as of counsel with Press, 2005) and a contributor to the most recent edition of Felix the Oklahoma City law firm of Phillips, McFall, McCaffrey, McVay, & Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law. He has published numerous Murrah.P.C. . articles on indigenous peoples and has lectured extensively across the Roloff has a lengthy history of volunteer public service. She served nation and abroad. on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Nor- man, Oklahoma, and Second Chance of Norman, Oklahoma.. Roloff received the United States Humane Society’s highest award, Citizen Legislator, for her activities as Chairperson of the Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting. 61 MICHAEL A. SCAPERLANDA ROBERT B. SMITH Associate Dean for Scholarship and Research Professor of Law, Emeritus Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law A.B., Stanford University, 1955 Professor of Law J.D., Stanford University, 1958 B.A., University of Texas, 1981 E-mail: [email protected] J.D., University of Texas, 1984 Email: [email protected] Professor Robert B. Smith teaches Lawyering Skills, Paralegal Studies, Professor Scaperlanda Advanced Appellate Advo- was born in Austin, Texas, cacy, and Trial Techniques. and spent most of his youth Smith retired from the in DeKalb, Illinois. He has U.S. Army as a colonel in been married to María Ruiz 1981 after serving more than Scaperlanda since 1981. 20 years in the Judge Advo- They have four children: cate General’s Corps. During Christopher, Anamaría, his legal career, he also served Rebekah, Michelle, and a as a deputy attorney general of the state of California and daughter-in-law, Mary. After as an associate with the San clerking for Chief Justices Francisco firm of Bronson, Jack Pope and John Hill on Bronson and McKinnon. the Texas Supreme Court, Appointed to OU Law he practiced law with Hogan in 1982, Smith was named and Hartson in Washington, director of the College of D.C. and Hughes and Luce Law’s legal research and writ- in Austin, Texas. Scaper- ing program in 1983. He became Associate Dean for Academics and landa came to OU Law as an Associate Director of the Law Center from 1998 to 2003. associate professor in 1989. He was promoted to Professor in 1995 and Smith was admitted to the California Bar in 1959 and the Oklahoma Bar in 1987. He is the author of The Literate Lawyer (3rd edition, 1995), named the Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law in 2000. He published by Lexis; To The Last Cartridge (1994), and Men at War (1996), currently serves as Associate Dean for Research. At OU Law, Scaper- both published by Avon; Daltons! (1996) and Last Hurrah—The James- landa teaches Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Jurisprudence, Younger Gang’s Disaster At Northfield (2001), both published by the and Professional Responsibility. He has been a visiting faculty member University of Oklahoma Press; Practical Legal Writing for Legal Assistants at the University of Texas School of Law, has served as an adjunct (1996), published by West Publishing; The Judge’s Evidence Deskbook faculty member in the OU Political Science Department, is an affiliate (with Theodore Roberts and Leo Whinery), Tough Towns, published by faculty member of the OU Religious Studies Program, and has served Globe-Pequot, Blood Eagle, a novel of the Cold War (Medallion, 2007), in the Provost’s office as Faculty Fellow. and Outlaw Tales of Oklahoma (Globe-Pequot, 2008) and more than 100 Scaperlanda’s books include Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catho- articles on legal writing and military and western history. lic Perspectives on American Law (with Theresa Collett) (2007); The Journey: A Guide for the Modern Pilgrim (with María Ruiz Scaper- landa) (2004); and Loyola Press in 2004, and his three-volume work, Connie S. Smothermon Immigration and the Constitution (with Chin and Romero) (2000). Director of Competitions His articles appear in several law journals, including the Wisconsin Assistant Director and Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Stanford Law and Policy Journal, Con- B.A., University of Oklahoma 1981 necticut Law Review, Texas Review of Law and Politics and Georgetown J.D., summa cum laude, Oklahoma City University Immigration Law Journal. He speaks and writes articles for the general School of Law, 1996 public on the role of the courts in shaping our Constitutional com- Email: [email protected] munity and the place of religion in the public square. His current book project is To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: Rekindling the Spirit of Our Living Constitution. Connie Smothermon Scaperlanda was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1984 and Supreme came to the University of Court Bar in 2004. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and has Oklahoma College of Law chaired the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Law Teach- in 2004. She began her legal ers Committee and the Association of American Law School’s Immi- career as an Assistant District gration Law Section. Scaperlanda also serves as a consultant to various Attorney in Logan County organizations and corporations within his areas of expertise. handling the juvenile delin- quent and deprived dockets and prosecuting homicides and sexual assault cases. In 1999, Smothermon transferred to the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office to head the Domestic Violence Prosecution Unit. Additionally, she prosecuted homicides, violent felonies, 62 sexual abuse and child abuse cases. Currently, Smothermon serves on tributions to the development of family law and in 1990 was named various domestic violence boards and organizations dedicated to draft- the Outstanding Family Law Attorney. He has also received the Earl ing legislation aimed at the protection of victims of family violence. Sneed Award for significant contributions to Continuing Legal Educa- Smothermon is admitted to practice law in the State of Oklahoma, tion by the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1991. the Western District of Oklahoma and the United States Supreme Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma faculty in 1980, Pro- Court. She is a member of The American Bar Association, The Oklaho- fessor Spector was a member of the faculty of Loyola University of ma Bar Association, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and Chicago law School for thirteen years. He has served as a visiting pro- serves on the ABA national client counseling competitions committee. fessor at the University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina, and Suffolk University in Boston. ROBERT G. SPECTOR Glenn R. Watson Chair in Law DAVID SWANK Centennial Professor of Law David Ross Boyd Professor of Law B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1963 B.A., Oklahoma State University, 1953 J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1966 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1959 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Robert G. Spector is the Glenn R. Watson Chair and Centennial Professor of Law and the Professor David Swank Director of the Interdisci- joined the University of plinary Graduate Training Oklahoma in 1963 as its legal Program in the Prevention counsel and as assistant pro- of Child Abuse and Neglect. fessor of law. Since that time He teaches courses on he has served OU Law as Family Law, Children and associate professor, professor, the Law, Conflict of Laws, associate dean, dean of the Evidence, and Child Abuse College of Law, director of and Neglect. He received the Law Center, and Interim his Juris Doctor degree from President of the University of the University of Wisconsin Oklahoma. in 1966. Swank began his law career in 1959 as a partner Professor Spector serves as the Reporter for the in the firm of Swank and Uniform Child Custody Swank of Stillwater, Oklaho- Jurisdiction and Enforce- ma. In 1961, he was named ment Act and the Family assistant county attorney for Law Joint Editorial Board Payne County, and in 1963, for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State he became county attorney. Laws. He is a member of the United States’ Delegation to the Hague He has been active in working with the Oklahoma Bar Association Conference on Private International Law’s Session on negotiating a and the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association. He was the principal multilateral agreement for the recognition and enforcement of support drafter of the Oklahoma Discovery Code. Swank has served as the obligations. He was the Deputy Head of the United States’ Delegation university faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletic to the Hague conference on Private International Law’s Special and Association and the Big Eight Conference and was vice president Diplomatic Commissions on the Protection of Incapacitated Adults of the NCAA for seven years. He also served on the NCAA Execu- and served as an Expert Member of the United States’ Delegation to tive Committee and in 1991 was named to the NCAA Committee the Hague Conference Special and Diplomatic Commissions for the on Infractions. He served as a member of the NCAA Committee on Convention on the Protection of Minors, the Special Sessions on the Infractions for nine years until August 1999, and served as chair for Maintenance Convention, the Special Session on the working of the seven years. In 1994 he was named by College Sports magazine as one Abduction Convention and the Special Session on the working of the of the 50 most influential people in college sports. maintenance conventions. Swank was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1959 and is a mem- He was a member of the Governing council of the American Bar ber of the Order of the Coif, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, the Association’s Family Law Section for ten years. He also chaired the Oklahoma Bar Association, and the American Inns of Court XXIII. Committee on Marital Torts and served as Vice-Chair of the Law He is a fellow of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and a life member of School Curriculum Committee. He serves as a consultant to the the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. In 1999-2000 and 2000- Oklahoma Bar Association’s Section of Family Law. He is the author 2001 he was named by the students as the College of Law’s Outstand- of Oklahoma Family Law: Cases and Materials; Oklahoma Family Law: ing Professor. The Handbook and Oklahoma Family Law Statutes Annotated, all pub- He is the coauthor of Criminal Justice for the United States Postal lished by Imprimatur Press and over 100 articles on family law. He Inspector, with Robert E.L. Richardson. also serves as the Associate Editor of the Family Law Quarterly, and is a member of the Board of Editors of Divorce Litigation and the Ameri- can Journal of Family Law. Professor Spector writes and lectures extensively on family law topics. He received the Chair’s Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Family Law Section in 1994 and 1997 for significant con- 63 WILLIAM M. TABB HARRY F. TEPKER, JR. Associate Dean for Academics and Deputy Director of the Law Center Floyd and Irma K. Calvert Chair in Law and Liberty Arch B. and Jo Anne Gilbert Professor of Law Professor of Law Judge Fred A. Daugherty Chair in Law B.A., Claremont Men’s College, 1973 B.A., University of Arkansas, 1974 J.D., Duke University, 1976 M.A., University of Arkansas, 1976 Email: [email protected] J.D., University of Arkansas, 1982 LL.M., University of Illinois, 1987 Email: [email protected] Rick Tepker has been a member of the OU Law faculty since 1981. He teaches courses in the areas of Con- Associate Dean and stitutional Law and Equal Professor William M. Tabb Employment Opportunity. joined the faculty at the Uni- In 1987, the United versity of Oklahoma College States Supreme Court of Law in 1990, following appointed Tepker as counsel teaching at Baylor University for petitioner, an indigent Law School and the Uni- juvenile sentenced to death, versity of Illinois College of in Thompson v. Oklahoma, Law. He practiced law in 487 U.S. 815 (1988). It was Dallas, Texas with the Stras- the first case in which an burger and Price and John- American court overturned son, Bromberg and Leeds a death sentence on consti- law firms. tutional grounds because the Professor Tabb primar- condemned was too young at ily teaches Remedies, Torts the time of the crime. and Environmental Law and In 1988-89, he served as professor-in-residence for the U.S. Equal was named the first Sarkeys Employment Opportunity Commission, which he represented in Energy Center Fellow at the University of Oklahoma. In 2006, he litigation before the Supreme Court concerning university academic was appointed as the Associate Dean for Academics and the Deputy freedom and pension plans under the federal age discrimination stat- Director of the University of Oklahoma Law Center after previously ute. Prior to joining the OU Law faculty, he practiced law for five years serving as Associate Dean for Students from 1998-2003. He also with the Los Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. In 1998-99, holds the Judge Fred A. Daugherty Chair in Law and the Arch B. and Professor Tepker served as secretary for the ABA Section on Labor Jo Anne Gilbert Professorship. and Employment Law. He has received numerous honors and awards for teaching, ser- In 2004, Professor Tepker became the historian for the newly- vice and scholarship, including: the Student Bar Association Award organized Tenth Circuit Historical Society. In 1994, he had published for Outstanding Professor on three occasions, the Phillips Award, the biographical essays on the appellate court judges in a history funded Golden Gavel Outstanding Service Award, and the Phi Alpha Delta by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Pro- Outstanding Service Award. Professor Tabb is a member of the Order fessor Tepker also is author of numerous law review articles, including: of the Coif, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta, Christian Legal “Writing the Law of Work on Nero’s Pillars: The 1998-99 Term of the Society, American Bar Association, Texas Bar Association, and Who’s U.S. Supreme Court,” 15 Labor Lawyer 181 (1999); “Marbury’s Legacy Who in American Law. of Judicial Review after Two Centuries,” 57 Oklahoma Law Review 127 Professor Tabb has written several books, including Cases and (2004). Problems on Remedies, with Professor Elaine W. Shoben, Judge Jack In 1993, Professor Tepker won the University of Oklahoma Lehman Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Pro- Regents Award for Superior Teaching. In academic year 1996-97, Pro- fessor Rachel Janutis, Capital University, by The Foundation Press, fessor Tepker served as the Chair of the University of Oklahoma Fac- Inc. (4th edition, 2007) and Environmental Law, Policy and Practice ulty Senate. Professor Tepker is a 1973 graduate of Claremont Men’s with Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor Linda A. Malone, Col- College. He earned his law degree in 1976 from Duke University. lege of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, by West Publishing (2007). Additionally, he has published articles in leading national law journals, including the Harvard Environmental Law Review, William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Missouri Law Review, Tulsa Law Review, Natural Resources and Envi- ronment, the Tulane Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education.

64 Joseph T. Thai received numerous awards and commendations for her service as a pros- Associate Professor of Law ecutor including two Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards A.B., Harvard College, 1995 and the United States Postal Inspection Service National Award. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1998 Prior to joining our faculty in 2006, Professor Wattley had spent Email: [email protected] twenty-eight years practicing law in the areas of criminal law, employment and civil rights. Professor Wattley represented clients in post-conviction proceedings leading to the exoneration of clients who had been Presidential Professor wrongfully convicted. Joseph Thai joined the law Professor Wattley served on a variety of civic and professional boards faculty in 2003. He teaches and committees including the State Bar of Texas Board of Disciplinary Supreme Court Decision Appeals; District 6 Grievance Committee; Dallas Bar Foundation; and Making, First Amendment, Board of Regents for Texas Woman’s University. She was appointed to Criminal Procedure, and serve on “Dallas Together,” a mayoral committee appointed to address Criminal Law, and writes in racial issues within the city. Professor Wattley was appointed vice chair- related areas. person for the 1990 and 2000 City of Dallas Redistricting Commission. Thai has served as law Professor Wattley has served as visiting assistant professor and clerk to Justice John Paul adjunct faculty member at Southern Methodist University School of Stevens and Justice Byron Law. She has been an instructor for National Institute of Trial Advocacy R. White of the Supreme programs and a presenter at a variety of continuing legal education pro- Court of the United States, grams. She is the author of I’ll Do It an historical theatrical presentation and Judge David M. Ebel of of the struggles of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher to break segregation barriers at the United States Court of the University of Oklahoma Law School. Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Thai has practiced in the Office of the Attorney Gen- Meredith A. Wegener eral of Massachusetts, where Visiting Associate Professor of Law he handled criminal and civil appeals in state court, and habeas and B.A. Trinity University, 1999 Section 1983 litigation in federal court. Prior to joining the law faculty, J.D., with honors, University of Oklahoma, 2003 Thai worked at Gable and Gotwals in Oklahoma City, where he litigated L.L.M., New York University, 2008 trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts and administrative Email: [email protected] agencies. Thai currently engages in pro bono litigation on constitutional matters, including those before the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Meredith Wegener joined the law faculty in 2008 as a In 2005, and again in 2008, Thai was named the outstanding faculty Visiting Associate Professor of law. Professor Wegener obtained her member of the College of Law by its students. In 2005, Thai was also Master of Laws from New named the university-wide outstanding faculty member by students York University School of across campus. In 2007, he received the President’s Associates Presiden- Law where she was a Comfort tial Professorship. Scholar and was awarded the Seymour Goldstein Memo- rial Prize. As an attorney at Cheryl WaTtley the firm of Spradling, Alpern Director of Clinical Education & Gum, (now Gum, Puckett Associate Professor of Law & Mackechnie) her practice B.A., cum laude, Smith College, 1975 entailed commercial litiga- J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1978 tion, oil and gas, trucking and Email: [email protected] administrative law litigation, and insurance defense. Professor Wegener gradu- Professor Cheryl Brown ated with honors from the Wattley teaches Criminal University of Oklahoma Col- Procedure, Criminal Law lege of Law and was selected and Trial Techniques. She as a member of Order of the also serves as the Director of Coif. She served as Manag- the live client clinics and the ing Editor and founding externship programs. Board Member of the Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology, and Professor Wattley gradu- the President of the Board of Advocates. She was the recipient of the ated from Smith College, Nathalie Pierrepont Comfort Scholarship, Oklahoma Bar Foundation cum laude, with high honors Scholarship and multiple American Jurisprudence Academic Achieve- in Sociology. She received her ment Awards. Juris Doctorate degree from Following graduation from Trinity University, Professor Wegener Boston University College served on Senator James Inhofe’s staff in Washington, D.C. She cur- of Law. rently volunteers at the Boys & Girls Club and is a Barrister in the Wil- Professor Wattley began liam J. Holloway Inn of Court. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar. her legal career as Assistant Her areas of interest include contracts and torts (particularly where the United States Attorney, two intersect), access to civil justice (specifically through the work of the District of Connecticut. Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration) and com- She later transferred to the mercial law. Professor Wegener is teaching Contracts and Torts. United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas where she focused on the prosecution of white collar crime. Professor Wattley 65 Joel Wegemer Mike Winchell Associate Director of the Law Library Assistant Director of Legal Research and Writing Adjunct Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing B.A., Boston College, 1978 B.B.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 1974 J.D., Capital University, 1981 J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1976 M.L.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1996 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Professor Michael G. Joel Wegemer joined Winchell teaches courses on the Law Library as a Refer- legal research, writing, and ence Librarian in 1996. He oral advocacy. He has also became Assistant Director taught Government Contract of Information Services Law and Environmental Law. in 1998. Subsequently he He retired from the was promoted to Associ- United States government ate Director in 2000. As in 2005 as a member of Associate Director of the the Senior Executive Ser- Law Library, he assists the vice. Prior to retirement he Library Director with library received a Presidential Meri- administrative matters and torious Executive award, supervises the public ser- NASA Exceptional Service vices department of the law Medal, United States Navy library. Exceptional Civilian Service Professor Wegemer award, and more than 25 teaches legal research in the other commendations. Dur- Legal Research, Writing and ing his career he was chief Advocacy Program where he also serves as Legal Research Director. counsel of the NASA Johnson Space Center, and the Kennedy Space He teaches specialized research classes and has taught Computerized Center. He also served as chief counsel for the United States Marine Legal Research for the Law Center’s Department of Legal Assistant Corps Logistics Bases, Southeastern Bases; as an administrative judge Education. He was named an Adjunct Professor of Law in 2003. Pro- for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; fessor Wegemer has served on several University of Oklahoma Library and as associate regional counsel of the General Services Administra- Committees including the University Libraries OPAC Committee and tion Region 7 during his 28-year federal career. University of Oklahoma Libraries SirsiDynix Implementation Search Professor Winchell graduated from the University of Oklahoma, Interface Committee. College of Law in 1976, where he was a member of the school’s 1976 After law school, Wegemer was a law clerk for Judge Dean Straus- National Moot Court team. He received a business degree from the baugh of the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals. After his clerkship, University of Central Oklahoma in 1974. he worked for Westlaw Services Inc. and then West Publishing Com- pany. He is admitted to the Ohio Bar and is a member of the America Association of Law Libraries, the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries and the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries.

66 ■ Alumni and Public Affairs Services ■ Alumni Services The function of the Alumni Relations Office at the University of Oklahoma College of Law is multi-purpose, seeking to serve the College, the alumni and the current students, who are often referred to as “alumni-in-training.” One of the major functions of the department is keeping tabs on almost 8,000 living alumni. This is no easy feat with alumni living in each of the 50 states, as well as in several foreign countries. The Alumni Relations Office is re-creating alumni relations at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, under the direction of Dean Andrew Coats and Assistant Dean David Poarch. The Alumni Relations Office at the College of Law has three inter-related goals that under- gird its mission: to maintain the flow of timely information to graduates regarding matters of current interest; to enhance opportunities for our alumni in the market- place; and to develop human and financial resources for supporting law school programs. The office promotes the exchange of ideas with our alumni on ways to enhance our services, and welcome their participation in the life of the school. Alumni Rela- tions seeks to foster an atmosphere where our alumni share in the vision of making the University of Okla- homa College of Law the most outstanding place in the country to obtain a quality legal education.

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67 ■ International Study Programs

Students at the College of Law are offered opportunities to study abroad through the summer program at Oxford, England, and through student-initiated programs in other host countries. Law students of other countries come to the College of Law under exchange agreements between their universities and the University of Oklahoma.

■ Oxford Summer Program Each summer, the University of Oklahoma College of Law conducts a program in Oxford for American law students. The program affords students an opportunity to live and study in stimulating and beautiful surroundings under the guidance of American and En glish legal educators. The Oxford Program is held at an Oxford College during June and July each summer. Housing and meals are available for students at the college. Oxford is one of the architectural treasures of the world, containing building styles from the 11th to the 20th centuries. It was described by Matthew Arnold as “that sweet city with her dreaming spires [that] needs not June for beauty’s heightening.” For more information and an application form, contact Oxford Summer Program, OU College of Law, 300 Timberdell Road, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-5081, phone (405) 325-4726, e-mail [email protected]

■ Student-Developed Programs In the past several years, students at the College of Law have created individual study programs at foreign law schools. Students participating in these programs attend regular classes and participate in all of the activities of the foreign law school. Past programs have provided students the opportunity to study abroad for a semester or a full academic year. If approved in advance by the College of Law pursuant to American Bar Association rules, students can receive up to 30 hours credit toward their Juris Doctor at the University of Oklahoma. Such study programs are particularly relevant to those students who have an interest in international law or international business. Among the foreign institutions recently attended by OU law students are the law schools at the University of Helsinki, Finland; Monash University, Australia; Bucerius Law School, Germany; Technologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Other opportunities exist for foreign study abroad in almost any country in which a student wishes to study. The University of Oklahoma has exchange agreements with 174 foreign universities in 66 different countries. Students attending a foreign university or OU under an exchange agreement pay no tuition or fees to the host university, instead paying those charges to their home university. A special individual study abroad program can be developed with the help of the University of Oklahoma Educa- tion Abroad Office, 729 Elm Ave., Room 150, Norman, OK, 73019, phone 325-1693. Information can be obtained from the Educatoin Abroad OfficeWeb site at www.ou.edu/ea

68 ■ Native American Law Programs

■ The Program: At OU Law, students will also find a strong curriculum devoted At the University of Oklahoma, Native American Programs are exclusively to Native American Law. There are currently a wide not stand-alone; they are integrated into the entire fabric of the range of courses that focus primarily on Native American legal educational experience of all students and coursework. All of issues. Native American law as one of the major areas of em- our professors and the university is sensitive our surroundings phasis at OU Law — they are listed in the Emphasis Areas and and the needs of the many cultures we support. For example: Course Listings section of this Bulletin.

• CONSTITUTIONAL and PUBLIC INTEREST LAW will factor in a respect for the tribal entities that are affected by the US Constitution as well as the separate constitutions of the Indian nations • When we teach CONTRACTS and PROPERTY, we consider agreements and the historical perspectives of Native Ameri- can land interests. • When ENVIRONMENTAL and NATURAL RESOURCES law is studied, the impact of Native American rights must be a part of the curriculum. • Many of the tribes are very active in BUSINESS and COM- MERCIAL law and become a component of the regular curriculum.

Certificate Program

In 2002, the Center for the Study of American Indian One of the following externships or approved Law & Policy at the University of Oklahoma College of employment in the field: Law instituted a Certificate Program in American Indian Law. This program allows OU Law students to gradu- 6400 Federal Indian Law Externship ate from a certified program that specializes in Native Legal Externship Clinic (provided the American Law. externship focuses substantially on the practice of American Indian Law) 5610 Federal Indian Law 6400 Extern Placement (provided the externship focuses substantially on the practice of Two of the following from the Indian Law American Indian Law) curriculum: —— 100 hours of employment in the field of Indian Law as approved by Center Direc- 5633 Native American Natural Resources tor 5600 American Indian Law Seminar—Selected Legal Problems One of the following related courses from the gen- 5602 Comparative Indigenous Peoples’ Law eral curriculum: 5600 Tribal Courts/Tribal Law 5600 Tribal Economic Development and Self- 6540 Oil and Gas Determination 6523 Environmental Law 6311 American Indian Law Review (two 6580 Water Law semesters) 5403 Administrative Law 5543 Federal Courts 6060 International Law Foundations

69 ■ Other Areas of Focus for Native American Interests

The American Indian Law Review • OU Law has the only law review in the nation that operates as a nationwide scholarly forum for the presentation and analysis of Indian law and Indian affairs. • Provides students opportunity to research and write on a variety of current issues as well as working with prominent writers.

Native American Law Student’s Association • This student organization is devoted to advancing the interests of Native Americans in society and in the legal profession. • Members promote public awareness of important issues impacting on Native American individuals and groups. • Group also operates as a collective where members can seek support and collegiality.

Moot Court Team that focuses on issues of national importance involving Indian Law • The OU Law Team was the national champion in 2005-06!

Federal Indian Law Externship • Students can receive 12 hours credit for working in the Federal Indian Law Externship Program in Washington D.C. for a semester. • Opportunities: Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy ■ The Department of Justice • Provides counsel to tribal, state, and national policy mak- ■ The Department of Interior ers. ■ The National Indian Gaming Commission • Forum for discussion and resolution of problems facing ■ The Indian Heath Service. native communities. • Students can also extern at one of numerous tribal courts. • Professor Lindsay Robertson is the Center Director.

The Native People’s Collection • OU Law houses one of the nation’s largest collections ■ Number 1 in nation in Native American enrollment of books and microforms on the law relating to Native and graduates in 2006–07 and 2007-08. Peoples. ■ • The College of Law has over 2,400 titles. 97% bar passage rate, July 2008. • Major resource for scholars and researchers throughout the (first-time takers) nation. ■ 100% bar passage rate, minority students July 2006. (first-time takers) Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project • Project is a cooperative effort with the OU Law, the Na- ■ Increased minority enrollment from 13% to 23% in tional Indian Law Library, and Native American Tribes. five years. • Provides internet access to tribal constitutions, codes, and ■ other Indian law documents and publications. Internships and externships available at U.S. Depart- • http://Thorpe.ou.edu ment of Justice and Bureau of Indian Affairs (Wash- ington, D.C.)

70 ■ Comments on the Native American Law Program

“OU Law is home to the largest Native American student body of any public law school in the Nation. OU has the highest percentage of Native American law students of any law school (LSAC data - 2006).” — Professor Lindsay Roberson

“Oklahoma is the home of 39 federally-recognized Indian tribes and is unique in its place Native American History. The College of Law takes advantage of this opportunity to enhance our students with legal intern and extern experiences among the diverse Indian cultures within the area.” — Professor Lindsay Roberson

“Located in the heart of Native America, OU Law offers and ideal environment to study Indian law. With a broad curriculum, accessible resources, and real opportunities for scholarship and connection to major tribal activities — OU Law is in the right place.” — Associate Professor Taiawagi Helton

“Socio-cultural factors influence the perception and the allocation of rights in land. Such abstractions find immediate relevance here in Okla- homa, where title issues continue to reflect past cultural collision and interchange. — Professor Katheleen Guzman

71 ■ Academic Journals The Oklahoma Law Review Since 1948, the Oklahoma Law Review has been published quarterly under the auspices of the University of Oklahoma College of Law to give expression to legal scholarship and to serve the profession and the public with timely discussion of legal problems. The Review is published by the student members of the Law Review staff, with the advice of members of the faculty. It contains leading articles written by members of the bar and bench as well as law professors. Student notes and comments, recent case developments, and book reviews are also published in the Review. Membership can be achieved through academic standing, a writing competition, or writing a paper accepted for publication in the Review. The criteria for each method are explained to first-year students in the Legal Writing and Research class. The members develop invaluable skills in analyzing legal problems, marshal- ing authorities, and expressing themselves accurately and precisely. Academic credit is earned by the Review members.

The American Indian Law Review The American Indian Law Review serves as a nationwide scholarly forum for the presentation and analysis of developments in Indian law and Indian affairs. Adher- ing to the traditional law review format, the American Indian Law Review offers in-depth articles written by legal scholars, attorneys and other expert observers. In addition, law students write on a wide variety of issues in the rapidly expanding field of Indian law. Each issue also includes a comprehensive summary of recent developments, including federal legislation as well as reviews of current books and literature. Each year the American Indian Law Review sponsors the American Indian Law Writing Competition. This competition is open to law students throughout the United States and Canada. The top three entries are rewarded money prizes and the first place entry is published in the Review.

Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology (OKJOLT) is Oklahoma’s first electronic legal publication dedicated to the study of critical issues at the intersection of law and technology. With OKJOLT, OU Law joins such top ranking schools as Harvard, Stanford, and Duke in setting new standards for multidisciplinary scholarship. OKJOLT publishes exclusively in electronic format providing for rapid turn-around from article submission to publication. As such, the OKJOLT website operates with a rolling publication format, and continuously updates the site with new and useful research materials. Because of this rolling publication format, authors may submit works at anytime during the year.

BLSA members with Ms. Clara Luper at Black Heritage Evening 72 ■ Student Organizations & Extracurricular Activities ■ American Civil Liberties Union—University of ■ The Association of Trial Lawyers of America Oklahoma Chapter Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association Student Advocacy Chapter In order to safeguard civil rights and civil liberties and to promote discussion and awareness of these issues, The ATLA/OTLA Student Advocacy Chapter pro- the American Civil Liberties Union - University of vides programs for enhancing the skills training of law Oklahoma Chapter was established. The group is affili- students, furthering their preparation for the practice ated with the American Civil Liberties Union, a national of law. One of the primary objectives of the group is to organization. The purposes of the ACLU-OU include foster a greater understanding of careers in trial practice; promoting and increasing interest in civil liberties, iden- therefore, attention is given to a wide range of issues. tifying and addressing issues that affect the University Some of the issues addressed through various nationally community and the nation at large, disseminating infor- respected speakers and programs include: ethics, advoca- mation and providing a forum for discussing civil liber- cy skills, jury selection, expert witnesses, complex litiga- ties, and working for the protection of civil liberties for tion practice, and negotiation and settlement of disputes. all citizens irrespective of status. ■ Association of Public Interest Lawyers American Constitution Society ■ Public interest issues reflect the social needs and legal The American Constitution Society for Law and impacts on virtually all segments of society. As society Policy (ACS) is one of the nation’s leading progressive changes, the law reflexively adapts to address matters of legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a rapidly greatest social and economic importance. Developing growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, trends and matters of current national concern are exam- judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals. ined by the students in this organization. A few of the top- Our mission is to ensure that fundamental principles of ics considered include environmental pollution and man- human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine agement of natural resources; criminal justice concerns; equality and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central international and domestic human rights; free speech; dis- place in American law. ACS aims to revitalize and trans- crimination in the workplace involving women, minorities form the legal and policy debates occurring in law school and the disabled; and access to the political process. The classrooms, federal and state courtrooms, legislative students engaged in this group seek to provide a forum for hearing rooms and the media. discussion of such concerns and to create greater awareness of various issues touching the public interest. ■ Asian Pacific American Law Students Association The Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association is dedicated to providing support to the Asian law students attending the University of Oklahoma College of Law. While participation in recruitment activities and furthering Asian representation in the legal community are important objectives of the group, the primary goal is to help meet the academic and social needs of Asian law students.

73 ■ Black Law Student Association ■ Environmental Law Society The University of Oklahoma Black Law Student Asso- The Environmental Law Society (ELS) is a network ciation is a member of the National Black Law Student of students devoted to the welfare of our communities. Association, which was founded to articulate and imple- Environmental policy decisions made today will affect ment the needs and goals of black law students locally our society’s health and economy in the future. ELS and nationally. Its primary function is to orient, assist and seeks to understand environmental issues of the day, and otherwise support black students, both academically and promotes the most intelligent social response to those socially, to meet the demands and needs of black students, issues. ELS is devoted to integrating the community’s and to encourage the widest participation possible to all concerns with its own, as public and community out- students in activities of the law school. Further, BLSA reach is a crucial step in building a healthy society. attempts to instill a greater awareness in the black student, Additionally, the Environmental Law Society seeks to and the legal profession as a whole, of the legal needs of the serve as a source of information regarding environmen- black community and to encourage a greater commitment tal and natural resources law and policy to the academic and service to that community. Other endeavors include community and the community at large. attempts to increase the number of black and under-represented minority groups in the legal profession. ■ Family Law Society ■ Board of Advocates Student organization that discusses pertinent areas of Family Law, how the area of Family Law is changing, The Board of Advocates (BOA) works to create oppor- and hosts guest speakers throughout the year in order tunities for all law students to develop appellate advocacy, to provide further insight to law students interested in trial advocacy, communication, negotiation, counseling Family Law. and interviewing skills. Primarily, these opportunities are created through the Calvert Intra-School Moot Court The Federalist Society Competition and the First Year Moot Court Competition. ■ Further, BOA is directly involved in fostering talent to be The Federalist Society is a group of conservatives utilized on other national competition teams as well. and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. This is one of the largest student organiza- ■ Christian Legal Society tion at the OU College of Law and the largest chapter in the nation. Its founding principles include the preserva- The Christian Legal Society is an organization of law tion of freedom, the separation of governmental powers students interested in the integration of their Christian as stated in the Constitution, and a firm belief that the faith with the field of law. The organization provides a purpose of the judiciary is to say what the law is, not means of fellowship among students, aids students in what it should be. The society is host to distinguished preparing for the legal profession, and provides a forum legal scholars from across the nation, including U.S. for discussion of problems relating to Christianity and Supreme Court Justices. the law.

■ Dean’s Council The Dean’s Council is comprised of second and third year students, selected principally for leadership and academic achievement, who work in conjunction with the office of the Assistant Dean for Students. The Council provides academic assistance to first-year students through small group sessions and individual counseling and mentoring designed to address the range of skills needed for success in law school. The group also coordinates various social activities for the first-year class sections to foster an atmosphere where all new students are integrated within the life of the school. The council members also meet with groups and individuals interested in entering law school.

74 in the industry as well as to set up off campus visits to energy related destinations. ERLSA covers all forms of energy from oil and gas to renewable sources.

■ Law Student Division of the American Bar Association The Law Student Division is the student affiliation of the A.B.A. Total membership in the L.S.D. includes over 40,000 law students, approximately one-fifth of the total A.B.A. membership. The A.B.A. is composed of lawyers and judges from the 50 states. The OU College of Law has one of the largest enrollments of L.S.D. members in the United States, and was a charter member of the Law Student Division at the time of its creation in 1949. The L.S.D. has four conferences each year. Two of the conferences are regional, at which law schools in Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas participate. The national conference is held in conjunction with the A.B.A. annual conference. Policies of the Law Student Division are debated and suggested modifications in ■ Intellectual Property Society American Bar Association policy are proposed. In addi- This organization focuses attention on domestic tion, current developments in the law are discussed and and international developments in copyright, patent and other substantive legal programs are presented. Member- trademark laws. The advent of the internet and other ship is voluntary but highly beneficial to law students. advanced technology present challenges to individuals and businesses seeking to protect investment in informa- ■ Military Law Society tion, balanced against public needs for access to products The purpose of the Military Law Society (MLS) is to and information. The society introduces students to vari- educate future lawyers about the military and its legal sys- ous speakers with expertise in intellectual property and tem and how it relates to civilian law. The United States promotes careers in the field. is involved in a continuing armed conflict and with that conflict comes an array of legal issues. While the military ■ J. Reuben Clark Law Society provides legal services for those who are in the armed The JRCLS student chapter is part of a national services, there are several former services members that must seek civilian legal assistance now that they have left society for attorneys which began as an alumni associa- the service MLS helps prepare students to meet that need. tion for graduates of the J. Reuben Clark School of Law This education will be done in the form of guest speakers at Brigham Young University. The association has since as well as input from those who have been in the armed branched out to include any attorney interested in exer- services, both in a legal and non-legal role. MLS also pro- cising religious conviction in the practice of law. vides opportunities for MLS members to volunteer legal The OU Law chapter has organized to make con- assistance to service members and veterans. nections and build a network of students who want to encourage excellence, fairness, service, religious convic- Native American Law Students Association tion, and virtue in the study and practice of the law. This ■ student chapter is unique in that its first priority is to Native American Law Students Association is affili- help each other survive the rigors of law school and find ated with the National Association of Native American employment. Law Students. The student organization is devoted to advancing the interests of Native Americans in society ■ Energy and Resources Law Student and in the legal profession, promoting public awareness Association of important issues impacting Native American individuals and groups, and providing a forum for the discus- The Energy and Resources Law Student Association sion of matters of current national and regional interest was founded in 2005 in order to help educate law students to students and the public. about the opportunities in the energy industry. The primary goal of ERLSA is to bring energy experts on campus to educate law students about employment opportunities 75 ■ Oklahoma International Law Society OAWL conducts orientation seminars designed to promote success in law school study and examination. OILS is a member of the International Law Society. A variety of programs on contemporary legal issues are This organization has members from around the world presented throughout the school year. Practical problems and focuses on the law of nations. ILS originated in 1967 of law practice, such as office management and client so that “principles of international law should be more counseling, are also emphasized. The organization seeks fully understood and recognized.” In keeping with this to establish contact between students and area attorneys philosophy, each year ILS sponsors the Philip C. Jessup for both educational opportunities and job placement. Moot Court competition, a widely respected competition, and the STEP program, an international exchange program for interns. As a member of ILS, OILS offers ■ Phi Alpha Delta students in the College of Law an opportunity to develop Phi Alpha Delta is an international professional law their interest in international law and politics. This orga- fraternity, founded in 1897. It has 154 chapters char- nization is an outlet for students to learn more about tered at accredited law schools throughout the United the world around them, meet other students of similar States, Puerto Rico and Canada. PAD was the first pre- interests, and seek involvement in the advancement of viously all-male law fraternity to admit women (1970) international law at the College of Law. and, in 1972 was the first to accomplish a merger with a major women’s law fraternity, bringing more than 5,000 ■ The Organization for the Advancement of women into its ranks. Women in Law PAD is a professional service organization whose purpose is to serve the law student, the law school and The Organization for the Advancement of Women the legal profession. It also affords law students the in Law (OAWL) is open to all law students concerned chance to expand legal horizons and professional con- with promoting the interests of women under the law tacts through the practical and professional programs and within the legal profession. The major purposes of which the local chapter develops at the law school level. OAWL are to represent the concerns of women in law It continues to provide valuable contacts, services and school, to encourage the recruitment of women and fellowship throughout your legal career. minorities as faculty and students, and to coordinate programs which will provide information about and stimulate discussion of gender-based legal problems.

76 ■ Phi Delta Phi ideas that may benefit students and the College of Law. Voting membership on the Board of Governors consists Phi Delta Phi was established in 1869 to promote a of the president of each class and four representatives higher standard of legal ethics. Phi Delta Phi is the old- from each class. These members are selected in the fall est and largest legal fraternity in the United States. It was for one-year terms. The president of the Board is elected founded in 1869 and now has 153 active college chapters from the student body at large at the beginning of the and 58 alumni chapters. spring semester and serves a one-year term. Activities of The Holmes Inn Chapter at OU was founded in the Student Bar Association include Law Day, participa- 1911. At that time, the Order of the Coif and the Dean’s tion in the Law Student Division of the ABA, and mak- Honor Roll had not been established. Therefore, one of ing recommendations on behalf of the student body to the purposes in establishing Holmes Inn was to recog- the faculty. The student Bar Association is the student nize academic excellence; thus, a 7.00 grade average in at governing body of the College of Law. least one semester was made a membership qualification.

The Society for Alternative Dispute Resolution ■ Students for Access to Justice—OU Law’s ■ Pro Bono Referral Program The Society For Alternative Dispute Resolution explores the emerging trend of parties to negotiate, SATJ matches law students with local area organiza- mediate or arbitrate their claims. Experts from each of tions (non-profits, government agencies and the courts) those fields interact at meetings with members of the in order to provide pro bono help. In the course of their Society and share with students their advice for solving internship, law students conduct case research, write client problems in an ever-changing legal environment. briefs, intake clients, and so on. Students involved with Competitions provide students with the opportunity SATJ are given the opportunity to get practical legal to develop their talents. Each spring, the Society conducts experience and gives them a chance to meet the unmet a negotiation competition from which students may needs of the legal community. SATJ holds an annual Pro proceed to the American Bar Association’s regional and national competitions. The American Bar Association also Bono Fair where representatives from area entities and conducts mediation and client-counseling competitions organizations meet students to discuss internships as pro for which the Society prepares interested members. bono volunteers. Lastly, SATJ is compiling information on national/ international opportunities for law students ■ Hispanic American Law Students Association to participate in pro bono work. The Hispanic American Law Students Association United Students is an organization of law students concerned with the ■ problem of providing adequate legal representation for United Students is OU Law’s student organization the Spanish-speaking community of Oklahoma. HALSA focused on gay and lesbian rights. US keeps students also works to encourage minority undergraduates to abreast of laws affecting gay and lesbian students and pursue legal careers and offers academic counseling to future clients. US supports students in coping with the first-year students. Membership in HALSA is open to all rigors of law school and works to provide a safe and OU Law students. open environment. ■ St. Thomas More Student Law Association The association, open to all interested students, is devoted to matters integrating faith and legal disciplines. Ethical principles and foundations of law serve as a touchstone of discussion, natural and constitutional rights, and norms of law and the influence of law on society are considered.

■ Student Bar Association Board of Governors All students enrolled in the College of Law are automatically members of the Student Bar Association, whose primary function is to represent the student body. The Student Bar Association is administered by a Board of Governors, which holds open meetings at least once a month. Interested students are encouraged to appear before the Board to share their insights, concerns, and

77 The University of Oklahoma College of Law Equal Opportunity Statement The University of Oklahoma College of Law believes that human dignity and human equality are essential elements of simple justice. The College believes that a vital and vigorous academic discourse is enhanced by full participation from a diverse community. The College reaffirms its desire to foster an environment for all members of the law school community that is welcoming, fair and responsible, an environment where distinctions are made on the basis of merit, ability, performance and professional conduct. The College is committed to a policy of equal opportunity. It does not permit or tolerate discrimination against individuals based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, political affiliation or viewpoints, or veteran status. The College complies with all applicable federal and state law promoting equal educational and employment opportunity and prohibiting unlawful discrimination. In addition, the College is also committed to an affirmative policy of: (1) encouraging the enrollment of all qualified students, including students from varied backgrounds, minority students, female students, and other students with diverse social, cultural, economic and geographic experiences; (2) properly identifying and eliminating discriminatory patterns in the provision of educational and related services; and (3) establishing organizational structures and procedures that assure equal treatment and equal access to the facilities and educational benefits of the institution for all members of the law school community. These commitments include, but are not limited to, admissions, appointment and employment of faculty and staff, financial aid, educational services, career placement, and extracurricular activities.

This publication is issued by the University of Oklahoma and authorized by the Dean of the College of Law at a cost of $2.00 per copy to the taxpay- ers of the State of Oklahoma. Design and production by the College of Law. Photographs by Sanford Mauldin, Steve Rice, Shevaun Williams and Party Pics of Norman.

78 ■ Our History The University of Oklahoma College of Law was founded in 1909. Julien C. Monnet was hired as the founding dean of Law by the Univer- sity Board of Regents. At the beginning of the inaugural semester in the fall of 1909, the College of Law consisted of Dean Monnet, two faculty members, and a class of 47 students. The College of Law was then, and remains, the only state-supported law school in Oklahoma. In 1911, the College of Law joined the membership of the Asso- ciation of American Law Schools. Since 1923, the College of Law has been accredited by the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education. As a result of student lobbying of the Legislature, the College of Law received its first home in the form of newly-built Monnet Hall in 1914. Monnet Hall measured just under 47,000 square feet in area, and housed the College of Law for 62 years. It features a large, high- ceilinged reading room, and more notably, two large stone owls in the upper eaves of the building. Symbols of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, the owls remain a symbol of pride for students today. The “Law Barn,” as it is affectionately known, remains one of the most distinctive buildings on the University’s North Oval. It currently serves as the home of the University Libraries’ Western History Collection and the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. In 1971, as a result of the studies of the Law Center Commission, the University of Oklahoma Law Center was formed. The Law Center is composed of the College of Law itself, the Law Library, the Legal Assistant Program, the Oklahoma Law Review, American Indian Law Review, and The Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology, the Ameri- can Indian Law and Policy Center, and the Clinical Legal Education Program. With expanded activity came a need for greater space. In 1976 a new Law Center building opened on the south end of campus. In 2002, the College of Law completed a major $19 million expansion that provides 80,000 square feet of additional space, featuring a new library and 250- seat courtroom with state-of-the-art technology. Renovated classrooms, spacious student commons areas, snack bar and expanded clinical and student services offices highlight the Andrew M. Coats Law Center. These new areas combine function with aesthetic design, and facilitate the delivery of the high quality professional programs offered by the College of Law. Today, the new Law Center is home to more than 500 students, 34 full-time faculty members and numerous adjunct professors, the Law Center administration, support personnel, and the staff of the Law Library. Dean Andrew M. Coats, a 1963 OU Law graduate and former president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, has served as dean of the College of Law and director of the Law Center since July 1, 1996. Monnet Hall, the original law center 79 ■ Notes

80 The University of Oklahoma College of Law invites you . . . Tour Coats Hall Visit a class or speak with members of the faculty or administration about applying for enrollment. Tours are provided by Col- lege of Law staff and student volunteers on an individual basis. For more information about tours and class visits, write the Admis- sions Coordinator, OU College of Law, 300 Timberdell Road, Nor- man, Oklahoma 73019-5081, or call (405) 325-4728.

Directions Norman, Oklahoma is located approximately 20 miles south- southeast of Oklahoma City. If you are traveling to Norman on Interstate 35, take the State Highway 9 East exit, located near the southwest approaches to Norman. Drive 2.2 miles east and take the Chautauqua Avenue exit, going north (left). Turn east (right) at the intersection of Chautauqua Avenue and Timberdell Road; Coats Hall is located immediately east of Chautauqua and Timberdell, on the south side of Timberdell Road. If you are traveling to Norman from the east on State Highway 9, turn north (right) at the Chautauqua Avenue exit, located 1.9 miles west of the intersection of State Highway 9 and U.S. 77. Coats Hall is located on the far south side of the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.

LAW CENTER DIRECTORY ADMISSIONS INFORMATION—college visits Any admissions-related questions not covered by application materials Admissions Office (405) 325-4728 should be directed to Kathie Madden, Admissions Coordinator, in the Alumni Affairs Office (405) 325-0501 Student Services Office in Coats Hall, phone (405) 325-4728, American Indian Law Review (405) 325-2840 e-mail [email protected] Office of Professional and Career Development (405) 325-4717 CAREER SERVICES Computer Services (405) 325-3970 The College of Law, through its Office of Professional and Career Devel- Continuing Legal Education (405) 325-2891 opment, is involved in a variety of activities designed to assist students Dean’s Office (405) 325-4702 seeking employment as summer clerks as well as for permanent employ- Financial Services Office (405) 325-4710 ment. For more information about these activities, contact Career Devel- General Information (405) 325-4699 opment Services in the Student Services Offices in Coats Hall. Phone Law Library (405) 325-4311 (405) 325-4717, e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] Law Library Reference Desk (405) 325-5268 FINANCIAL AID SERVICES Legal Assistant Program (405) 325-1726 Information on need-based financial aid may be obtained from the Office of Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology (405) 325-5187 Financial Aid Services, located at 1000 Asp Ave., 216 Buchanan Hall, on the Oklahoma Law Review (405) 325-5192 OU main campus. The phone number is (405) 325-4521, e-mail: OU Legal Clinic (405) 325-3702 [email protected] The office administers the title IV student financial aid Public Affairs (405) 325-2227 programs, institutional loan programs and need-based Oklahoma fee waiver Registrar (405) 325-4729 program. The University of Oklahoma’s title IV Institutional Code is 003184. Student Services (405) 325-4726 COUNSELING SERVICES OU Counseling and Testing Services, located at Goddard Health Center on the main campus, provides personal, developmental, educational and career coun- UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY seling. The center is staffed by licensed psychologists, professional counselors and consulting psychiatrists. For more information, call (405) 325-2911. Bizzell Library (Main Campus) (405) 325-3341 Graduate Admissions Office (405) 325-3811 DISABLED STUDENT SERVICES Office of Academic Records (405) 325-2012 The College of Law does not discriminate against students with disabili- Office of the Bursar (405) 325-3121 ties in any services or academic programs. The College will make reason- able accommodations to meet the academic needs of disabled students. Office of Financial Aid Services (405) 325-4521 For more information, contact The Disability Resource Center, Goddard Undergraduate Admissions Office (405) 325-2251 Health Center, 620 Elm Ave., Suite 166, (405) 325-3852.

LAW LIBRARY INFORMATION OTHER IMPORTANT NUMBERS Information on services and resources of the OU Law Library may be found in the Quick Guide to the University of Oklahoma Law Library, Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) (215) 968-1001 included in first-year orientation materials. Any questions not covered Norman Chamber of Commerce (405) 321-7260 by the guide may be directed to the library’s administrative offices at (405) 325-4311, or to the library circulation desk, (405) 325-5441. Oklahoma Bar Association (405) 416-7000 GenerationsOf Excellence

Andrew M. Coats Hall

For More Information or to Schedule a Visit contact Ms. Kathie Madden

University of Oklahoma College of Law (405) 325-4728 Phone 300 Timberdell Road (405) 325-0502 Fax Norman, Oklahoma 73019-5081 www.law.ou.edu [email protected]