In this episode of the OCU LAW News Podcast, we speak to OCU LAW Associate Professor of Law Library Science, Associate Law Library Director and Director of International Programs Lee F. Peoples, who discusses OCU LAW’s recently concluded Certificate in American Law Program, which brought a group of lawyers and law students from Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, to learn about the American Legal System at OCU LAW. The podcast also features interviews with several of the program’s participants. 

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 All members of the OCU LAW community are invited to the 2008 OCU LAW Alumni Weekend, Oct. 3-5. The event will honor the classes of 1958, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1998, 2003 and 2007, though members of any class as well as current faculty and students are invited to attend. 

Alumni Weekend will commence with the 2nd Annual OCU LAW Alumni Golf Classic at the Lake Hefner Golf Course, at 8:30 a.m. Friday, October 3. The weekend’s activities will coincide with the annual Head of the Oklahoma Regatta rowing event sponsored in part by Oklahoma City University, Devon Energy and Chesapeake Energy at the Oklahoma River in downtown Oklahoma City. The regatta has been an Olympic-qualifying event and was awarded "Event of the Year" by Rowing News in 2007.

OCU LAW events will include an Alumni Welcome Reception at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City on Friday night, followed by Honored Class dinners. OCU LAW will offer two CLE sessions at Sarkeys Law Center on Saturday morning, followed by a Regatta viewing at the OCU LAW Hospitality Center at Regatta Park near the Chesapeake Boathouse on the river. 

Saturday night will feature an Alumni Reception and Reunion Dinner at the Sheraton. In addition, OCU LAW will have a Hospitality Suite at the Sheraton where alumni and friends can relax and socialize between events. 

A full schedule of the weekend’s events is available at the OCU LAW Alumni & Friends webpage.

OCU LAW hopes you will join members of our community for this event. Registration is required. For more information or to register please contact Jackie Weekley at (405) 208-5197 or e-mail lawevents@okcu.edu.

 Bernard Jones, the Oklahoma City attorney who joined OCU LAW as Assistant Dean of Admissions on Sept. 2, was featured in last week’s Black Chronicle. Full text of the story is available at the Black Chronicle’s website. 

Jones, who joined the Oklahoma City firm McAfee & Taft in 2006, also worked as litigation associate in the Columbus, OH, office of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, practicing civil litigation and labor and employment litigation.

Jones is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the William J. Holloway, Jr. American Inn of Court. He is on the American Cancer Society’s Government Relations Committee (High Plains Division) and works as a volunteer at KIPP Reach College Prep.

The most recent edition of OCU LAW’s Professional and Career Development Center’s eNews is now online. PCDC eNews is published twice a month during the spring and fall semesters. 

The Professional and Career Development Center is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays, as well as by appointment to accommodate evening students. The PCDC provides resources to students and alumni in helping them to develop professional skills and to connect with career opportunities and potential employers. To find more information or to schedule an appointment call (405) 208-5332 or visit PCDC’s website. 

Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will deliver OCU LAW’s 2008 Brennan Lecture at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the Homsey Family Moot Courtroom. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Before his appointment to the federal bench in 2003, Judge Sutton served as State Solicitor of Ohio and a partner with the law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in Columbus, Ohio, attracting national attention through his successful advocacy in several landmark federalism cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his B.A. from Williams College in 1983 and his LL.B. from the Ohio State University in 1990. He regularly teaches state constitutional law at Ohio State, where has been a member of the adjunct faculty since 1993.

Named in honor of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., the Brennan Lecture at OCU School of Law brings leading scholars in state constitutional law to campus. The Brennan Lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of State Constitutional Law and Government, under the direction of Professor of Law Andrew Spiropoulos with assistant directors Professor of Law Dennis Arrow and Assistant Professor of Law Michael O’Shea. By sponsoring workshops, scholarly writing and public lectures, the Center takes advantage of its location in the heart of Oklahoma’s capital city to promote scholarship and discussion on important issues relating to state and local government.

Bernard Jones, an attorney with Oklahoma City law firm McAfee & Taft, has joined Oklahoma City University School of Law as assistant dean for admissions. Jones, who currently practices in the areas of labor and employment law, family law and products liability litigation, will begin at OCU LAW on Sept. 2nd.

Jones is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the William J. Holloway, Jr. American Inn of Court. He is on the American Cancer Society’s Government Relations Committee (High Plains Division) and works as a volunteer at KIPP Reach College Prep.

 In this week’s Books page of the Sunday Oklahoman, reporter Dennie Hall mentions the book Oklahoma City University School of Law: A History, by OCU LAW alumnus Bob Burke ‘79 and OCU LAW Professor Von Russell Creel, as one of a litany of "Display-Worthy" coffee table books. Certain books, notes Hall, have as much appeal as accessories to a room’s decor as they do pieces of history, art, or information. 

"People looking to put aside their old coffee-table books and to display new ones for their own enjoyment and for guests to peruse will welcome several newly published offerings," writes Hall. The full text of the article is available at the Oklahoman’s website. 

Oklahoma City University School of Law: A History is available at the OCU bookstore or the Oklahoma History Center, or by contacting Laurel Redding at (405) 208.5806.

In June the Oklahoma City Museum of Art opened the exhibit "Roman Art From the Louvre," a collection of 184 examples of Roman art and artifacts including life-size sculptures, sarcophagi, jewelry, mosaics and more. Oklahoma City is the final stop on a three-city tour of the exhibition, which was organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Musee du Louvre. Now, in cooperation with the OKC Museum of Art, OCU LAW will present "Lex Romana: The Canon and Creativity of the Roman Jurists," a continuing legal education program featuring five members of the OCU LAW faculty speaking about the origins, intricacies and lasting legacies of the legal system of the Roman Empire, from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, at 415 Couch Dr. in downtown Oklahoma City.

OCU LAW Professors Richard Coulson, Marc Blitz, Carla Spivack, Paula Dalley and Deborah Tussey will each give a short presentation on various aspects of Roman law. Topics include "What is Roman Law?"; "Emergency Powers Under the Roman Constitution"; "Roman Law and Family"; "Art as Spoils of War"; and "The Roman Origins of Business Law."

Members of the Oklahoma Bar Association will receive one hour of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. The program is $25 and includes admission to the museum as well as a light dinner catered by the Museum of Art cafe. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. To register for the Lex Romana event please contact Jackie Weekley, OCU LAW Special Events Coordinator, at (405) 208-5197, or e-mail lawevents@okcu.edu.

 In an opinion piece for the Oklahoman this week, columnist and Council of Public Affairs Vice President for Public Affairs Brandon Dutcher spoke to OCU LAW Professor Andrew Spiropoulos, the Director of the OCU LAW Center for the Study of State Constitutional Law and Government. Dutcher’s article, titled "The Audacity of HOPE," addressed the petition drive by an Oklahoma labor union. HOPE, or Helping Oklahoma Public Education, is an effort to get an amendment to the state constitution requiring Oklahoma to meet or exceed the region per-student expenditure average.

The full text of Dutcher’s article can be found at the Oklahoman’s website.

 Oklahoman reporter Paula Burkes featured the OCU LAW News Blog in this week’s business page in a story titled "Stardom Awaits on YouTube for Oklahomans." In it, Burkes discusses the various ways in which people use the internet and new media to promote their businesses or individual talents. 

Burkes quoted OCU LAW Assistant Dean for Communications and Marketing Damon Gardenhire, who referenced the OCU LAW Podcast as well as the blog. The full text of Burkes’ story is available on the Oklahoman’s website.