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Andrew Spiropoulos
Professor of Law and

Director of the Center for the Study of State Constitutional Law and Government.

E-mail:   Andrew Spiropoulos

Phone:  (405) 208-5801

Office Hours:

Drop in or by appointment.

Courses:
Constitutional Law, Legislation, State and Local Government, and Legal Analysis.

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

Background:
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.

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).