In this month’s episode of the podcast, we talk to Professor Andrew Spiropoulos, who is the head of OCU LAW’s Center for the Study of State Constitutional Law and Government. Professor Spiropoulos talks about this year’s session of the Oklahoma Legislature and the potential effects of federal stimulus money on the future of the state’s government. He also talks about the agenda undertaken by the newly majority-Republican body.

From 2005-2006 Professor Spiropoulos was the Senior Counselor to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where his duties included serving as chief policy advisor and negotiator.  Professor Spiropoulos clerked for Judge Danny Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law with the Chicago firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas before joining the faculty. He has been a Heritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow and is an adjunct scholar with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. He was the reporter for the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.

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