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Tamara Piety
Tamara Piety
Professor Piety is a 1991 graduate of the University of Miami, School of Law where she was an Articles Editor of the UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW. She received an LL.M. from Harvard in 2000 and was the executive editor of the HARVARD WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL. Professor Piety clerked for the Hon. Irving L. Goldberg in the 5th Circuit and the Hon. Peter T. Fay in the 11th Cir. Prior to joining the Tulsa faculty she was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Colombia. Professor Piety has published several articles and about commercial speech, the First Amendment, advertising and culture including; "Merchants of Discontent:" An Exploration of the Psychology of Advertising, Addiction and the Implications for Commercial Speech, 25 SEATTLE L. REV. 377 (2001); Grounding Nike: Exposing Nike's Quest for a Constitutional Right to Lie, 78 TEMPLE L. REV. 151 (2005) and Free Advertising: the Case for Public Relations as Commercial Speech, 10 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 367 (2006). Professor Piety has also published articles on jurisprudence, teaching, civil forfeiture and the war on drugs in numerous other journals including the CARDOZO LAW REVIEW, the UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW, the TULSA LAW REVIEW and the VERMONT LAW REVIEW. In Spring 2007 she was a Visiting Professor at Florida State University teaching Evidence and a seminar on commercial speech.
Education and Degrees Earned
- LL.M. Harvard Law School, June 2000
- J.D., University of Miami School of Law, December 1991
- B.A., Economics, Florida International University, 1985
Areas of Academic Specialty
- Basic Corporate Law
- Commercial Speech and the First Amendment
- Evidence
- Scientific Evidence
- Civil Forfeiture
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
- Jurisprudence
Previous Teaching Experience
- Florida State University College of Law
Visiting Professor
Evidence and a seminar on commercial speech - Spring 2007
- University of Tulsa College of Law
Associate Professor 11/04 - present
Assistant Professor 8/02 - 11/04
Evidence, Civil Procedure and Basic Corporate Law.
Seminars on civil forfeiture, and on evidence and epistemology.
- Oklahoma State University
College of Osteopathic Medicine - Forensic Science Program 1/03-present
Adjunct Faculty
Previous Relevant Work Experience
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 8/92-8/93
Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Peter T. Fay
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 5/90-8/90
Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg
- Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot, P.A. 4/96-2/97
Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton, FL.
- Associate
Richey & Diaz, P.A. 9/93-3/96
Miami, FL.
Associate
Professional Affiliations
- Law & Society
- Florida Bar
- American Bar Association & Litigation Section of ABA
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- American Association of University Professors
- Association of American Law Schools - Professional Development Committee - 2004-06
- Association of American Law Schools - Planning Committee - Workshop on Criminal Justice - 2005-06
- Association of American Law Schools - Planning Committee - Mid-Year Meeting - Evidence - 2007-08