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Dean

David Holt

Dean and Professor of Law

Faculty

Paula J. Dalley

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law

Robert S. Kerr Jr. Chair in Natural Resources and Environment

Marc J. Blitz

Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law

Paul M. Clark

Legal Research & Writing Professor

Karen Eby

Legal Research & Writing Professor

Greg Eddington

Legal Research & Writing Professor
Director of Legal Research & Writing Program

Steven Foster

Instructor of Law
Director of Academic Achievement

Timothy Gatton

Law Library Professor
Associate Director for Research and Instruction

Timothy T. Hsieh

Associate Professor of Law

Barry L. Johnson

Professor of Law

Danné L. Johnson

Constance Baker Motley Professor of Law

Maria Kolar

Associate Professor of Law

Eric Laity

Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law

Edward C. Lyons

Professor of Law

Tia Ebarb Matt

Clinical Professor of Law & Director of Experiential Education

Sarah McGovern

Legal Research & Writing Professor

Michael Mitchelson

Clinical Professor and Director of Externship Programs

Christin Mugg

Visiting Professor of Law

Michael O’Shea

Professor of Law

Lee F. Peoples

Associate Dean of Library and Technology
Frederick Charles Hicks Professor of Law

Andrew C. Spiropoulos

Robert S. Kerr Sr. Professor of Constitutional Law
Director, Center for the Study of State Constitutional Law & Government

D. A. Jeremy Telman

Professor of Law

Trevor Wedman

Assistant Professor of Law

Ying Zhou

Assistant Professor of Law

Oklahoma City University School of Law Scholarship Collections

Emeritus Faculty

Valerie K. Couch

Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus

Lawrence K. Hellman

Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus

Jim Roth

Dean Emeritus

Peter Dillon

Professor Emeritus

Michael T. Gibson

Professor Emeritus

Arthur G. LeFrancois

Professor Emeritus

Adjunct Faculty

Lorenzo Banks – Externship: Litigation Practice, Street Law
Adam Banner – Strategies for Success on the MPT
The Honorable Jerry Bass – Judicial Practice Externship
James Bruce – Externship: Corporate Counsel
Mary Caldwell – Legal Profession
Evan Chambers – Corporations
Jodi Cole – Oil and Gas Law
Clay Curtis – Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation
Donita Douglas – Strategies for Success on the MPT
David Echols – Family Law
Emily Eleftherakis – American Indian Wills Clinic
Derek Ensminger – Employment Law
Amir Farzaneh – Immigration Law
Irving Faught – Financing the Start Up, Securities Regulation
Melissa Gardner – Corporations
The Honorable Jason Glidewell – American Indian Law
The Honorable Lydia Green – Family Law
The Honorable Lisa Hammond – Pretrial Litigation
Anthony Hendricks – Cybersecurity Law, Information Privacy Law
Tami Hines – Agency and UBAs
Janie Hipp – Indigenous Food and Agriculture Law
Stephanie Hudson – Tribal Law
Cheryl Husmann – Wills, Trusts, and Estates
The Honorable Martha Kilgore – Interdisciplinary Training Program on Child Abuse and Neglect I, II
Kent Meyers – Legal Profession
Andrea Miller – Oklahoma Innocence Clinic, Wrongful Convictions
The Honorable Jacqueline Miller – Arbitration Advocacy
Christin Mugg – Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Homer Pointer – Homeland Security, National Security
The Honorable Dustin Rowe – Trial Practice
The Honorable Scott Rowland – Legal Profession
Hiram Sasser – Civil Rights Litigation
Randy Sengel – Trial Practice
Kyle Shifflett – Civil Practice and Procedure Skills Session
Kara Smith – Administrative Law
Michele Smith – Alternative Dispute Resolution in Family Law
Travis Smith – Prosecuting Terrorism
Connie Smothermon – Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation Advocacy, Mediation Advocacy
Richard Smothermon – Forensic Evidence in the Classroom, Trial Practice
Douglas Sorocco – Art Law, Intellectual Property
Joel Stafford – Oil & Gas Taxation
The Honorable Barbara Swinton – Pretrial Litigation
Mark Toffoli – Consumer Bankruptcy
The Honorable Cindy Truong – Pretrial Litigation
Kenneth Wagner – Water Law
Dave Walling – Trial Practice
Mary Westman – Animal Law
Todd Woolery – Oil & Gas