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The Oklahoma City University Law Review Offices are located in Draper Hall.  Our phone number is 405-208-5280 and our e-mail address is okclrev@okcu.edu.

The Oklahoma City University Law Review serves as the school’s flagship publication of scholarly articles and commentary.  Our student-edited journal contains the works of esteemed members of the bench and bar, dignitaries, professors, and OCU Law Review members.  Each semester—summer, fall, and spring—the Law Review publishes a new issue.  Together, with other such publications, we work to shape the next century’s legal landscape by providing persuasive legal theory to judges, academics, and practitioners.  Law review membership is prestigious, and membership often influences subsequent legal careers.  Many judges, professors, and partners at the most heralded firms staffed their school’s law review.  Membership in the Law Review can play a key role in the development of a strong resume that will be meaningful in a competitive job market.  Federal judges and larger law firms often look for candidates who have served on the Law Review.  The intense writing and editing experience provided through Law Review work will prove to be invaluable in future legal practice.  Many students consider their Law Review work to be some of their most rewarding learning experiences.

The main purposes of the Law Review are:

1. to provide a legal publication in which to publish articles that add to the knowledge and integrity of the legal profession;
2. to inspire and to provide a forum for law students who have demonstrated high academic achievement and who desire to enrich their law school experience through rigorous legal analysis, research, and writing; and
3. to enhance the quality of the Oklahoma City University School of Law as a diversified institution offering excellence in legal education.

Our publications are available for students on campus in the bins located just outside of the student lounge in the Sarkeys building and also in the law library, across from the circulation desk.  You may also access the publications through the online services of HeinOnline, WestLaw, and LexisNexis.  Please see our subscription page to order hard-copy subscriptions.

Examples of recent pieces include:

• Disparate Treatment Employment Discrimination and an Employer’s Good Faith:  Honest Mistakes, Benign Motives, and Other Sincerely Held Beliefs, by Ernest F. Lidge III
• Power and Law, Bait and Switch:  Debunking “Law” as a Tool of Societal Change,  by Kemit A. Mawakana
• Online Dating:  When “Mr. (or Ms.) Right” Turns Out All Wrong, Sue the Service!, by Phyllis Coleman
• Let Them Use Laptops:  Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate over Laptops in the Classroom, by Kristen E. Murray
• Summary Judgment and the Law of Unintended Consequences, by the Honorable Diane P. Wood
• Restoring Lost Connections:  Land Use, Policing, and Urban Vitality, by Nicole Stelle Garnett
• United States v. Pena-Montes:  Replacing Officer Experience with Judicial Scrutiny in Reasonable-Suspicion Analysis, by Brett M. Stingley