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Andrew Spiropoulos
Professor of Law

E-mail: Andrew Spiropoulos

Phone: (405) 208-5801

Office Hours:

Drop in or by appointment.

Courses:
Constitutional Law • Legislation • State and Local Government • Legal Analysis

Education:
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., J.D., University of Chicago; Phi Beta Kappa

Background:
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.

Publications:

The Enumeration Clause, in A. David F. Forte ed., THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION, at 56-57 (Heritage Foun., 2004).
The Flag Protection Act of 1989, in Brian K. Landsberg eds., MAJOR ACTS OF CONGRESS, at ___-___ (Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).
Constitutional Law: The Garvee Bonds Case and Executive Power: Breakthrough or Blip, 56 OKLA. L. REV. 327-48 (2003).
Book Review, 23 LAW & HIST. REV 460-62 (2005) (reviewing DANIEL FRIEDMANN, TO KILL AND TAKE POSSESSION (2002)).
The Uniform Law Process: Observations of a Detached Participant, 26 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 585-603 (2002).
It All Starts at the Top: Reforming Oklahoma’s Executive Branch, in Brandon Dutcher, ed. OKLAHOMA POLICY BLUEPRINT 111-126 (Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, 2002).
Free to Choose: Leveling the Playing Field for Non-Union Educators, in Brandon Dutcher, ed. OKLAHOMA POLICY BLUEPRINT 209-222 (Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, 2002).
A Defense of Substantive Canons of Construction, 2001 UTAH L. REV. 915-963.
Prefatory Note and Comments to the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act, 35 FAM. L. Q. 205-30 (2001).
The Constitutionality of Holiday Displays on Public Property (Or How the Court Stole Christmas), 68 OKLA. B.J. 1897-1904 (1997).
Defining the Business Necessity Defense to the Disparate Impact Cause of Action: Finding the Golden Mean, 74 N.C. L. REV. 1479-1557 (1996).
Natural Right and the Constitution: Principle as Purpose and Limit, 13 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 285-302 (1993).
Aristotle and the Dilemmas of Feminism, 18 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 1-56 (1993).