OCU LAW - Faculty - Von Russell Creel

Von Russell Creel
Professor of Law

Phone: (405) 208-5192

Office Hours:

Walk in or by appointment.

Courses:
Civil Procedure • Conflict of Laws • Legal History

Education:
B.A., J.D., University of Oklahoma; Editor, Oklahoma Law Review; Order of the Coif

Background:
Professor Creel clerked for Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He has served as executive assistant to Governor David Boren, vice-chair of the Selection Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, presiding judge of the Temporary Division of the Oklahoma Court of Appeals, and a member of a state task force to revise the rules of appellate procedure.

Publications:

Book Review, 84 CHRONICLES OF OKLA. 363-65 (2005) (reviewing ____, BLACK GUN, SILVER STAR: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF FRONTIER MARSHALL BASS REEVES (20__)).
Challenge and Opportunity: The First Year of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 30 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. ___-___ (2005).
On the Gallows’ Edge: Capital Punishment, Appeals, and Presidential Clemancy in Indian Territory, 1896-1907, ___ CHRONICLES OF OKLA. ___-___ (2004).
Vignette, 29 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 441-48 (2004).
Nancy I. Kenderdine: Teacher, Scholar, Administrator, and Colleague, 29 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 485-86 (2004).
Capital Punishment and the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 81 CHRONICLES OF OKLA. 172-205 (2004).
History of Oklahoma City University School of Law, 75 OKLA. B. J. 101-104 (2004) (with Bob Burke).
Oklahoma Law Schools, Capital Punishment in Oklahoma, and Right to Work, in OKLAHOMA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORY AND CULTURE, at ___-___ (Okla. Historical Soc., 2004).
A.S. “Mike” Monroney, in David J. Wishart ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT PLAINS, at 675 (Univ. of Nebr. Press, 2004).
A Court of its Own: The Establishment of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 27 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 231-44 (2002).
MIKE MONRONEY, OKLAHOMA LIBERAL (Okla. Heritage Ass’n, 1997) 210 pp. (with BOB BURKE).
AMERICAN JURIST: THE LIFE OF JUDGE ALFRED P. MURRAH (Okla. Heritage Ass’n, 1996) 389 pp. (with Bob Burke & Kenny A. Franks).
The Case of the Wandering Wobblie: The State of Oklahoma v. Arthur Berg, 73 CHRON. OF OKLA. 404-23 (1996).
Socialists in the House: The Oklahoma Experience (pt. 2), 70 CHRON. OF OKLA. 258-301 (1992).
Socialists in the House: The Oklahoma Experience (pt. 1), 70 CHRON. OF OKLA. 144-83 (1992).
LYLE BOREN: REBEL CONGRESSMAN (Okla. Heritage Ass’n, 1991) 285 pp. (with BOB BURKE).
Court in Peril: The Legislative-Judicial Struggle of 1927-1929, 52 CHRON. OF OKLAHOMA 220-36 (1974).

Address:
OCU School of Law
2501 N. Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73106