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University of Oklahoma College of Law

January 20, 2023

The University of Oklahoma College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of Oklahoma. It is located on the University's campus in Norman, Oklahoma.

University of Oklahoma College of Law
MottoMinistri iuris fideles
Established1909
School typePublic
DeanKatheleen Guzman.
LocationNorman, Oklahoma, USA
Enrollment509[1]
Faculty31 (full-time) [2]
USNWR ranking76th (2021)[3]
Bar pass rate95%[4]
Websitelaw.ou.edu
The William J. Ross Courtyard at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

The College of Law was founded in 1909 by a resolution of the OU Board of Regents. It opened at the beginning of the next school year in September 1909.[5] The first dean was Professor Julien C. Monnet of George Washington University Law School.

OU College of Law has been named a Best Value Law School for nine consecutive years with a current rank of 10th in the nation;[6] consistently leading the state in Bar Exam passage rates with a 95% passage rate on the most recent exam;[7] being a Top 20 Competition Teams school for five consecutive years with a current rank of No. 2 in the nation; launching the nation’s first-ever law school Digital Initiative to prepare students for success and leadership in the 21st century legal profession,[8] resulting in recognition as a Top 20 Most Innovative Law School[9] and as an Apple Distinguished School;[10] creating joint degree and certificate programs to enhance the J.D. and an online Master of Legal Studies degree.

According to OU Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 83.9% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term positions for which bar passage was required (75.5%) or for which a J.D. was an advantage (8.39%) nine months after graduation.[11]

History

The College of Law was founded by Julien C. Monnet in 1909.[5] From its humble beginnings of Dean Monnet, two faculty members, and 47 students, the College of Law has grown to become the pre-eminent legal institution in the state. The College of Law initially shared space in the Science Building before moving to the basement of the Carnegie Building.

In 1914, after student's extensive lobbying, the college moved into its first permanent home, Monnet Hall. The "47,000-square-foot Law Barn," as it was affectionately known, was home to the college for 62 years. As the home of the College of Law, it was witness to many events in Oklahoma (and American) history, including the admission of then-future OU Regent Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the first black woman admitted to the College of Law, in 1948.

Despite the additional square footage built onto the rear of Monnet Hall, the Law Center, which the College of Law and its associated entities came to be called in 1971, outgrew the building, forcing a relocation to its current home on Timberdell Road in 1976. Adding the American Indian Law Review to complement the established Oklahoma Law Review, expanding clinical legal education, and generally striving to meet the increasing demands of legal education in the late 20th century caused OU Law to once again outgrow its facilities.

In 1992, a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in honor of Hill.[10][37]Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill's resignation from the university, then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out-of-state residents, and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school.[10] Elmer Zinn Million, a local activist, compared Hill to Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy.[10][37] Certain officials at the university attempted to revoke Hill's tenure.[38]After five years of pressure, Hill resigned.[10]The University of Oklahoma Law School defunded the Anita F. Hill professorship in May 1999, without the position having ever been filled.[39] (All citations refer to those on the Anita Hill page.)

Andrew M. Coats Hall

In October 1999, ground was broken on a $19 million construction and renovation project which ultimately added 80,000 square feet to the facility. Named in honor of then-Dean Andrew M. Coats, the facility features the 58,000-square-foot Donald E. Pray Law Library and the 250-seat Dick Bell Courtroom. The new library features the Chapman Reading room, modeled after the reading room in Monnet Hall, with a parquet floor reminiscent of the floors in the Louvre. The Donald E. Pray Law Library, which is open to the public, boasts the largest law collection, public or private, in the state.

The Dick Bell Courtroom is one of the largest courtrooms in the region, if not the nation, and hosts live trials from the various courts in central Oklahoma. The Bell Courtroom has hosted appellate cases from both the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (including a death penalty appeal) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit,[12] as well as civil trials from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

On July 1, 2010, Joseph Harroz became the 12th Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and 7th Director of the OU Law Center. In May 2019, Harroz became interim president of the entire University of Oklahoma[13] and OU law professor Kathleen Guzman was appointed interim dean of the college.[14]

Digital Initiative

In August 2014, OU Law became the first law school in the nation to launch a college-wide Digital Initiative.[8] OU Law Digital Initiative is built around three core elements:

  • the common platform of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, given to all students at no cost, for hand-writing notes and annotating documents;
  • a digital training curriculum that educates OU Law students to use technology for productivity in law school and in practice; and
  • the Inasmuch Foundation Collaborative Learning Center, which opened in September 2016,[15] is an 8,000-square-foot space that allows students to become familiar with how technology can be used to collaborate on projects.

In May 2017, OU Law celebrated the Class of 2017's graduation, marking the first year an OU Law class collectively completed the school’s Digital Initiative programming, and making the college the first law school in the nation to do so. In November 2017, OU Law launched the OU Law Center for Technology and Innovation in Practice, formally bringing together and expanding the elements of the college's Digital Initiative. In January 2018, OU Law was named an Apple Distinguished School for 2017-2019 in recognition of its Digital Initiative.

Academics

OU Law enrolls more than 700 students annually in its Juris Doctor (J.D.), Master of Laws (LL.M.), and Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.) degree programs. The University of Oklahoma Law Center is home to the Legal Assistant Education Program.[16]

Notable alumni

Notable graduates include former U.S. Senator and former OU President David L. Boren, business executive and former OU President James L. Gallogly, former Oklahoma Governors Frank Keating, Brad Henry, and Leon C. Phillips, Oklahoma State University President V. Burns Hargis, president of Oklahoma City University and former 10th Circuit Judge Robert Harlan Henry, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, former Congressman and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Brad Carson, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert W. Jordan, Oklahoma Attorney General Michael Hunter, Director of the Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts and former Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins, former Mayor of Tulsa Kathy Taylor, Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, civil rights pioneer Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, and former Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe.

Alumni serving in the judiciary include Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices Ben Arnold, David Boren, Orel Busby, Tom Colbert, Richard Darby, Denver Davison, J. Howard Edmondson, Noma Gurich, Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Steven W. Taylor, Ben T. Williams and Patrick Wyrick; Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judges Robert L. Hudson,[17] Gary Lumpkin,[17] and David B. Lewis;[17] Choctaw tribal judge Rebecca Cryer; and former 10th Circuit Judge Alfred P. Murrah.

Long-time Oklahoma Attorney General Mac Q. Williamson also graduated from the Oklahoma University College of Law.

Employment

 
The Donald E. Pray Law Library at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

According to OU Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 83.9% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term positions for which bar passage was required (75.5%) or for which a J.D. was an advantage (8.39%) nine months after graduation. This is above the national average of 75.5% (64.5% bar passage required; 14.1% J.D. Advantage).[11]

Pro bono and public service law

Pro Bono Pledge

Every year at orientation, OU Law asks every student in the incoming 1L class to sign a voluntary Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge.[18] Students can choose to pledge either 50 hours or 100 hours of pro bono and public service over the course of their law school career. In the current 1L class (Class of 2020), a record 100% of the students signed the Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge and nearly two-thirds of those students pledged 100 hours.[19]

In the 2017-2018 academic year, OU Law students completed a record-breaking 24,024 hours of pro bono and public service.

Legal clinics

Through the OU College of Law Civil Clinic and Criminal Defense Clinic, students represent clients from Cleveland and McClain counties who would not otherwise be able to afford counsel. Operating under the close supervision of faculty attorneys, student interns face many of the same situations and practice demands they will encounter as attorneys while being directly responsible for representation of clients as licensed legal interns practicing under the Oklahoma Supreme Court Student Practice Rules.[20]

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition and fees) at OU Law for the 2017-2018 academic year is $21,503[21] for Oklahoma residents and $33,338 for non-residents.[22] In 2021, the cost was raised by $780 to $22,283 for Oklahoma residents and raised $1,380 to $34,718 for non-residents.[23]

Publications

Notes

  1. ^ "University of Oklahoma College of Law Standard 509 Information Report" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  2. ^ "University of Oklahoma Fact Book" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  3. ^ https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-oklahoma-norman-campus-03132. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners Bar Exam Statistics". Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  5. ^ a b Long, Charles F. (September 1965). "With Optimism For the Morrow: A History of The University of Oklahoma | The Evans Years" (PDF). Sooner Magazine: A History of the University of Oklahoma. Sooner Magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  6. ^ "The National Jurist Fall 2017 Page 22". Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  7. ^ "Bar Exam Statistics | The Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners (OKBBE)". www.okbbe.com. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  8. ^ a b "The University of Oklahoma College of Law to Produce First Class of Digital Legal Students | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  9. ^ "20 Most Innovative Law Schools". Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  10. ^ "Education - Apple Distinguished Schools". Apple. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  11. ^ a b "2016 ABA-Approved Law School Graduate Employment Data" (PDF). American Bar Association. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  12. ^ "OU Law to Host 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  13. ^ Staff Reports. "OU Board of Regents names Joseph Harroz interim president effective immediately". OU Daily.
  14. ^ editor-in-chief, Scott Kirker. "Katheleen Guzman selected as interim OU Law Dean pending OU Board of Regents approval". OU Daily. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "OU College of Law Dedicates Inasmuch Foundation Collaborative Learning Center | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  16. ^ "Programs | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  17. ^ a b c "Judges – OCCA". www.okcca.net.
  18. ^ "Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge Agreement" (PDF). OU College of Law. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  19. ^ "Service | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  20. ^ "Clinics | OU Law". www.law.ou.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  21. ^ "Tuition and Fees | OU Law". law.ou.edu.
  22. ^ "The University of Oklahoma College of Law - Tuition and Fees". The University of Oklahoma College of Law. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  23. ^ "University of Oklahoma Law School". Retrieved 8 August 2022.

External links

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January 20, 2023
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fidelesEstablished1909School typePublicDeanKatheleen Guzman LocationNorman Oklahoma USAEnrollment509 1 Faculty31 full time 2 USNWR ranking76th 2021 3 Bar pass rate95 4 Websitelaw ou edu The William J Ross Courtyard at the University of Oklahoma College of Law The College of Law was founded in 1909 by a resolution of the OU Board of Regents It opened at the beginning of the next school year in September 1909 5 The first dean was Professor Julien C Monnet of George Washington University Law School OU College of Law has been named a Best Value Law School for nine consecutive years with a current rank of 10th in the nation 6 consistently leading the state in Bar Exam passage rates with a 95 passage rate on the most recent exam 7 being a Top 20 Competition Teams school for five consecutive years with a current rank of No 2 in the nation launching the nation s first ever law school Digital Initiative to prepare students for success and leadership in the 21st century legal profession 8 resulting in recognition as a Top 20 Most Innovative Law School 9 and as an Apple Distinguished School 10 creating joint degree and certificate programs to enhance the J D and an online Master of Legal Studies degree According to OU Law s 2016 ABA required disclosures 83 9 of the Class of 2016 obtained full time long term positions for which bar passage was required 75 5 or for which a J D was an advantage 8 39 nine months after graduation 11 Contents 1 History 1 1 Andrew M Coats Hall 1 2 Digital Initiative 2 Academics 3 Notable alumni 4 Employment 5 Pro bono and public service law 5 1 Pro Bono Pledge 5 2 Legal clinics 6 Costs 7 Publications 8 Notes 9 External linksHistory EditThe College of Law was founded by Julien C Monnet in 1909 5 From its humble beginnings of Dean Monnet two faculty members and 47 students the College of Law has grown to become the pre eminent legal institution in the state The College of Law initially shared space in the Science Building before moving to the basement of the Carnegie Building In 1914 after student s extensive lobbying the college moved into its first permanent home Monnet Hall The 47 000 square foot Law Barn as it was affectionately known was home to the college for 62 years As the home of the College of Law it was witness to many events in Oklahoma and American history including the admission of then future OU Regent Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher the first black woman admitted to the College of Law in 1948 Despite the additional square footage built onto the rear of Monnet Hall the Law Center which the College of Law and its associated entities came to be called in 1971 outgrew the building forcing a relocation to its current home on Timberdell Road in 1976 Adding the American Indian Law Review to complement the established Oklahoma Law Review expanding clinical legal education and generally striving to meet the increasing demands of legal education in the late 20th century caused OU Law to once again outgrow its facilities In 1992 a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in honor of Hill 10 37 Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill s resignation from the university then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out of state residents and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school 10 Elmer Zinn Million a local activist compared Hill to Lee Harvey Oswald the assassin of President Kennedy 10 37 Certain officials at the university attempted to revoke Hill s tenure 38 After five years of pressure Hill resigned 10 The University of Oklahoma Law School defunded the Anita F Hill professorship in May 1999 without the position having ever been filled 39 All citations refer to those on the Anita Hill page Andrew M Coats Hall Edit In October 1999 ground was broken on a 19 million construction and renovation project which ultimately added 80 000 square feet to the facility Named in honor of then Dean Andrew M Coats the facility features the 58 000 square foot Donald E Pray Law Library and the 250 seat Dick Bell Courtroom The new library features the Chapman Reading room modeled after the reading room in Monnet Hall with a parquet floor reminiscent of the floors in the Louvre The Donald E Pray Law Library which is open to the public boasts the largest law collection public or private in the state The Dick Bell Courtroom is one of the largest courtrooms in the region if not the nation and hosts live trials from the various courts in central Oklahoma The Bell Courtroom has hosted appellate cases from both the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals including a death penalty appeal and the U S Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit 12 as well as civil trials from the U S District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma On July 1 2010 Joseph Harroz became the 12th Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and 7th Director of the OU Law Center In May 2019 Harroz became interim president of the entire University of Oklahoma 13 and OU law professor Kathleen Guzman was appointed interim dean of the college 14 Digital Initiative Edit In August 2014 OU Law became the first law school in the nation to launch a college wide Digital Initiative 8 OU Law Digital Initiative is built around three core elements the common platform of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil given to all students at no cost for hand writing notes and annotating documents a digital training curriculum that educates OU Law students to use technology for productivity in law school and in practice and the Inasmuch Foundation Collaborative Learning Center which opened in September 2016 15 is an 8 000 square foot space that allows students to become familiar with how technology can be used to collaborate on projects In May 2017 OU Law celebrated the Class of 2017 s graduation marking the first year an OU Law class collectively completed the school s Digital Initiative programming and making the college the first law school in the nation to do so In November 2017 OU Law launched the OU Law Center for Technology and Innovation in Practice formally bringing together and expanding the elements of the college s Digital Initiative In January 2018 OU Law was named an Apple Distinguished School for 2017 2019 in recognition of its Digital Initiative Academics EditOU Law enrolls more than 700 students annually in its Juris Doctor J D Master of Laws LL M and Master of Legal Studies M L S degree programs The University of Oklahoma Law Center is home to the Legal Assistant Education Program 16 Notable alumni EditNotable graduates include former U S Senator and former OU President David L Boren business executive and former OU President James L Gallogly former Oklahoma Governors Frank Keating Brad Henry and Leon C Phillips Oklahoma State University President V Burns Hargis president of Oklahoma City University and former 10th Circuit Judge Robert Harlan Henry New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez former Congressman and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Brad Carson former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert W Jordan Oklahoma Attorney General Michael Hunter Director of the Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts and former Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins former Mayor of Tulsa Kathy Taylor Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen civil rights pioneer Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and former Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe Alumni serving in the judiciary include Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices Ben Arnold David Boren Orel Busby Tom Colbert Richard Darby Denver Davison J Howard Edmondson Noma Gurich Brad Henry Frank Keating Steven W Taylor Ben T Williams and Patrick Wyrick Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judges Robert L Hudson 17 Gary Lumpkin 17 and David B Lewis 17 Choctaw tribal judge Rebecca Cryer and former 10th Circuit Judge Alfred P Murrah Long time Oklahoma Attorney General Mac Q Williamson also graduated from the Oklahoma University College of Law Employment Edit The Donald E Pray Law Library at the University of Oklahoma College of Law According to OU Law s 2016 ABA required disclosures 83 9 of the Class of 2016 obtained full time long term positions for which bar passage was required 75 5 or for which a J D was an advantage 8 39 nine months after graduation This is above the national average of 75 5 64 5 bar passage required 14 1 J D Advantage 11 Pro bono and public service law EditPro Bono Pledge Edit Every year at orientation OU Law asks every student in the incoming 1L class to sign a voluntary Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge 18 Students can choose to pledge either 50 hours or 100 hours of pro bono and public service over the course of their law school career In the current 1L class Class of 2020 a record 100 of the students signed the Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge and nearly two thirds of those students pledged 100 hours 19 In the 2017 2018 academic year OU Law students completed a record breaking 24 024 hours of pro bono and public service Legal clinics Edit Through the OU College of Law Civil Clinic and Criminal Defense Clinic students represent clients from Cleveland and McClain counties who would not otherwise be able to afford counsel Operating under the close supervision of faculty attorneys student interns face many of the same situations and practice demands they will encounter as attorneys while being directly responsible for representation of clients as licensed legal interns practicing under the Oklahoma Supreme Court Student Practice Rules 20 Costs EditThe total cost of attendance indicating the cost of tuition and fees at OU Law for the 2017 2018 academic year is 21 503 21 for Oklahoma residents and 33 338 for non residents 22 In 2021 the cost was raised by 780 to 22 283 for Oklahoma residents and raised 1 380 to 34 718 for non residents 23 Publications EditSooner Lawyer Magazine Oklahoma Law Review American Indian Law Review Oil and Gas Natural Resources and Energy Journal ONEJ Notes Edit University of Oklahoma College of Law Standard 509 Information Report PDF Retrieved 2018 03 08 University of Oklahoma Fact Book PDF Retrieved 2018 03 08 https www usnews com best graduate schools top law schools university of oklahoma norman campus 03132 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners Bar Exam Statistics Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners Retrieved 2018 03 08 a b Long Charles F September 1965 With Optimism For the Morrow A History of The University of Oklahoma The Evans Years PDF Sooner Magazine A History of the University of Oklahoma Sooner Magazine Retrieved 8 March 2018 The National Jurist Fall 2017 Page 22 Retrieved 2018 03 08 Bar Exam Statistics The Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners OKBBE www okbbe com Retrieved 2018 03 08 a b The University of Oklahoma College of Law to Produce First Class of Digital Legal Students OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 20 Most Innovative Law Schools Retrieved 2018 03 08 Education Apple Distinguished Schools Apple Retrieved 2018 03 08 a b 2016 ABA Approved Law School Graduate Employment Data PDF American Bar Association Retrieved 8 March 2018 OU Law to Host 10th U S Circuit Court of Appeals OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 Staff Reports OU Board of Regents names Joseph Harroz interim president effective immediately OU Daily editor in chief Scott Kirker Katheleen Guzman selected as interim OU Law Dean pending OU Board of Regents approval OU Daily a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a last has generic name help OU College of Law Dedicates Inasmuch Foundation Collaborative Learning Center OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 Programs OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 a b c Judges OCCA www okcca net Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge Agreement PDF OU College of Law Retrieved 8 March 2018 Service OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 Clinics OU Law www law ou edu Retrieved 2018 03 08 Tuition and Fees OU Law law ou edu The University of Oklahoma College of Law Tuition and Fees The University of Oklahoma College of Law Retrieved 8 March 2018 University of Oklahoma Law School Retrieved 8 August 2022 External links EditUniversity of Oklahoma College of Law Coordinates 35 11 46 N 97 26 47 W 35 19611 N 97 44639 W 35 19611 97 44639 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title University of Oklahoma College of Law amp oldid 1108291179, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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