September 2010

Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor Rex Zedalis has written a new book entitled, Claims Against Iraqi Oil and Gas: Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned (Cambridge University Press 2010). This is his 3rd book, and second published by Cambridge. Currently, Cambridge has outside reviewers considering his proposal for a follow-up volume tentatively entitled Oil and Gas In Iraq’s Disputed Kurdish Territories.

Professor Elizabeth McCormick’s has recently written, “U” Is Not For Undeserving: Rethinking Indirect Victim Eligibility For U Non-Immigrant Visas To Better Protect Immigrant Families And Communities. The article will be published in the Stanford Law & Policy Review in the spring.

Professor Hannah Wiseman’s article “Trade Secrets, Disclosure, and Dissent in an Energy Revolution” will be published in the Sidebar (online) section of the Columbia Law Review later this fall. Professor Wiseman’s article “Expanding Regional Governance in an Energy Anticommons” has been accepted by the Harvard Environmental Law Review and will go to print in June 2011. In addition, Professor Wiseman gave a talk entitled "Regulatory Responses to the New Energy 'Goldrush,’” at the Florida State University College of Law’s Environmental Certificate Seminar. She also gave a workshop presentation entitled “Regional Energy Governance” to the FSU’s faculty.

Professor Robert Spoo has been appointed to a five-year term on the advisory board of the National Library of Ireland, based in Dublin. Other board members include the managing director of Microsoft in Ireland. In addition, Bob has been invited to give a number of upcoming lectures and presentations: a McFarlin Fellows lecture on law and literature in the rare books room, in November; a presentation on his current research at a joint Innovation Law & Policy/Law & Humanities workshop at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, In February 2011; and a keynote lecture at a conference entitled “‘The quote’s the thing’: Negotiating Copyright in Literary Criticism” at the University at Buffalo SUNY, in April 2011.

Professor Sam Halibi’s article, Efficient Contracting Between Foreign Investors and Host States: Evidence from Stabilization Clauses, will appear in Volume 31 of the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business.

Professor Robert Butkin has been appointed by the President of the National Uniform Law Commission to a drafting committee for a new proposed Uniform Act on Asset Freezing Orders.

Student Accomplishments:

Philip Tinker third year law student, has accepted an offer to serve a clerk for Hon. William Jay Riley, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Philip was recently designated by the Faculty as the Oklahoma Bar Association Outstanding Student for the 2010-2011 academic year.

The Board of Advocates hosted the annual Martin Frey 1L Negotiation Competition on September 11, 2010. With 46 participants, 16 judges, and 8 bailiffs, this year's competition was one of the largest and most attended. After four vigorous and exhausting rounds of competition, the four highest-ranking teams were:

1st Place: Katie Carpenter & Elizabeth Hutto
2nd Place: Jackie Acker & Brandy Woodward
3rd Place: Donald Brantley & Robert Titus
4th Place: Greg Lavender & Brooke Tennison

Third year law student, Sarah Yates and OU Pharmacy student Emily Stilwell original work with PADs and schizophrenia dealing with violence, schizophrenia, and the differing perceptions of the law and medicine will be published in the Journal of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. Additionally, a draft of the entire paper, reformatted to deal exclusively with discrepancies between medicine/law views on the competency of adults and children with schizophrenia and how that effects the ability to utilize PADs will be submitted for possible publication in law journals by September 30.

Alumni News:

Ben Lambert (JD ’10) is currently pursuing an LL.M. at University of London, the Queen Mary Center for Commercial and Corporate Law.

Angelique EagleWoman (LL.M. ’04) was recognized for her accomplishments in the August Issue of Indian Country Today. Ms. EagleWoman was noted for her teaching and expertise in Native American Law and Policy at the University of Idaho.
Early this year, EagleWoman received the William F. and Joan L. Boyd Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Idaho. This award recognizes outstanding performance in law teaching and innovation as determined by the dean. Also, the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education recognized EagleWoman as one of the nation’s 12 diverse “Emerging Scholars” for 2010 in American higher education and she received the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award from Stanford University, one of just 19 awarded by the University.
Professor EagleWoman has written , ‘Tribal National Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity in Spite of U.S. Trade Restraints – Recommendations for Economic Revitalization in Indian Country’ that was published in the Tulsa Law Review and was distributed to the 2009 Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference and she also wrote ‘The Eagle and the Condor of the Western Hemisphere: Application of Indigenous Principles to Halt the United States Border Wall,’ published in the Idaho Law Review. She made a keynote presentation on the same subject to the Ninth Annual Distinguished American Indian Speakers Series sponsored by the University of Idaho American Indian Studies Program.

The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) has selected TU Law graduate Rose Ewing (JD ’98) as this year’s inductee to the Stanley M. Goldstein Drug Court Hall of Fame.
Ewing, Drug Court Program Director for the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa, has been a driving force behind the Tulsa Drug Court, Tulsa DUI Program, the Special Needs Docket, the Mental Health Court, and Veterans Treatment Court, all in Tulsa County. She is developing a program for incarcerated women.