Oklahoma City University School of Law

04/10/2025

Oklahoma City’s Law School 🤝 Oklahoma City’s Basketball Team

Gearing up for a Thunder playoff run at OCU Law! 🏀⛈️

04/08/2025

This week, our own Kelly Monroe received the Star Award for Service Excellence, a University-wide award given just once a year. We are so proud of Kelly and incredibly grateful for her dedication to OCU Law!

04/02/2025

This week, Dean David Holt was invited to speak at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The invite was extended by Professor Miriam Seifter, the 2023 OCU Law Brennan lecturer. Dean Holt – who is also the Mayor of Oklahoma City – joined other mayors on a panel to discuss current issues of local governance.

03/31/2025

Members of student government work hard each year to put on a fun Barrister's Ball for the student body. This past weekend the Ball was hosted at the Oklahoma City Zoo – and had a special drop-in from the dean! 🐘💃🏽

03/19/2025

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Don't forget to submit your posters and papers for the Sovereignty Symposium poster and writing competitions by Monday, March 24! Learn more and submit: thesovereigntysymposium.com/scholarships/

03/12/2025

Last week our Student Services team hosted its annual OCU Law Works Job and Externship Fair. Thank you to all the employers who stopped by to talk with our students about the work you're doing and future opportunities for OCU Law students and alumni!

03/10/2025

Mark your calendars for the annual Quinlan Lecture at OCU Law – Thursday, April 3 at 5 p.m. We hope you'll join us for the lecture "A Republic, If We Can Build It" presented by Professor Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Learn more about the topic and Professor Greene, and register to attend: https://buff.ly/7uqvFTb

03/06/2025

The Chickasaw Nation Law Library is celebrating Women’s History Month! Check out books about the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States and the 19th Amendment; read memoirs and biographies of female judges, lawyers, Supreme Court Justices (including the new memoir, Lovely One by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!), and women who led the charge to change the political landscape of Tribal Sovereignty. All books are available for checkout. View the books on display: https://buff.ly/lJ3yeMx

03/04/2025

March CLE Opportunity: Secret Sauce for a Successful Mediation, presented by Danielle Fielding and Judge Linda Morrissey.

Join the OCU Law Alumni Association, alumna Danielle Fielding and Judge Linda Morrissey TOMORROW (March 5) for a virtual CLE titled "Secret Sauce for a Successful Mediation." This CLE is free for OCU Law Alumni Association Members and $25 for non-members.

Register today: https://buff.ly/4byyAGs

03/03/2025

OCU Law is less than a mile from the world's greatest basketball team – the Oklahoma City Thunder!

Last week at the law school our students enjoyed a watch party to cheer for our OKC Thunder against the Brooklyn Nets!

Come for the Thunder Drummers, stay to watch a judge throw a t-shirt!

02/28/2025

Nearly 30 years ago, a domestic terrorist drove a truck bomb up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Two alumni of OCU Law were killed – Michael D. Weaver and Jules A. Valdez – both of whom worked for HUD. In the aftermath of the Bombing, the building that now houses OCU Law served as the command center for rescue efforts.

Recently, OCU Law added a display case to honor this history, and today the law school was visited by Dave Lopez, who served as president of Southwestern Bell in 1995, which was headquartered in the building at that time; former OKC Fire Chief Gary Marrs; and Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. The case contains remembrances of Weaver and Valdez, as well as glass from the building that was shattered by the bomb and artifacts from the command center.

OCU Law honors the alumni we lost, the many alumni who participated in the legal proceedings that followed the Bombing, and our building's ties to the response. In addition to the display case, OCU Law has a room named the Murrah Commons and the Murrah Student Association, which focuses on legal issues in homeland security and national security.

Thank you to Associate Dean Lee Peoples, Syd Stephenson and Vivian Eldridge for their work on the display case.

02/21/2025

Calling all employers interested in hiring OCU Law grads – register today for our upcoming career fairs! The registration deadline is quickly approaching for the OCU Law Works Job and Externship Fair and the first annual Oklahoma Public Service Pathways Fair, a collaborative effort between all of Oklahoma’s law schools and the Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation. Registration for the OCU Law Works Job and Externship Fair closes Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Learn more and register today: https://buff.ly/4i75tR4

02/18/2025

It's competition season, and OCU Law has been well represented by our student teams the past few weeks, from Las Vegas to OKC to Philadelphia.

Two OCU Law teams traveled to UNLV to compete in the National Native American Law Student Association Moot Court competition, and both teams placed in the top 16 out of more than 60 teams. The student competitors were Jay Hitt, Caroline Rowland, Emily Hurt and Samantha Lowry.

Jennifer Foster, Jon Edwards, Haley Hostetler, Caroline Tubbs, CJ Pollins, and J Badillo traveled to Philadelphia to compete in the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition regional round. Jennifer Foster won Best Advocate, and Jon Edwards placed ninth out of more than seventy competitors.

Back in Oklahoma City, we had two teams competing in the American College of Trial Lawyers National Trial Competition. Those teams were comprised of Rafa Duenas, Reagan Briggs, Will Cera, Mara Sylvester, Bailey Stevens, Dylan Voorhis, Allie McGlammory and Katy Wilson. OCU Law also served as the host for this competition and welcomed 29 teams from law schools across the region. Thank you to all of the volunteers who served as witnesses and judges to help us make the competition happen!

These students work very hard for many months to prepare for these competitions – congrats to all and great job!

02/15/2025

We are just six weeks out from the Sovereignty Symposium writing and poster competitions submission deadline! We invite papers on any issue concerning Native American law, and there are opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and law students, as well as past or present Symposium faculty members. The deadline for submission is March 24, 2025.

Learn more and submit: https://buff.ly/3D4C4Ie

02/12/2025

Each year, PreLaw Magazine publishes its list of most diverse law schools. We're excited to share that this year OCU Law ranks as the 20th most diverse law school in the country! Read more about the rankings and see our other PreLaw awards: https://buff.ly/4k7qLjs

02/10/2025

It's Love Your Library Week, and we 💙 the Chickasaw Nation Law Library! The library kicked off the week's festivities this morning with Professor Gatton’s homemade cookies. Students, stop by this week to write a love note about what you love about the library to enter to win your choice of study room for finals or reading week, play guess the call number to enter to win a prize, or guess how many hearts are in the jar. Fun library-based activities and treats will be happening all week!

02/06/2025

This month at the Chickasaw Nation Law Library: Black History Month – Black Excellence in the Legal Field. Stop by the library to read the memoirs and biographies of trail-blazing attorneys and judges who forever changed the legal landscape. All books are available for checkout! See all current displays at the library: https://buff.ly/4guLTNm