The Hispanic Law Student Association along with the Immigration Law Society will be hosting the Annual Immigration Symposium this week. This year’s symposium will be focused on the positive aspects that immigrants bring to this country and to our school. Because of the recent and on-going debate about immigration, the planning committee has decided to expose the positive impacts that immigrants have to our school.

Distinguished Alumni, the Honorable Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian P. Opala. Justice Opala graduated from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1953. He has been serving as justice of this state’s Supreme Court since November 21, 1978. Before his appointment to the bench by then Governor David Boren, he practiced and taught law, served as a judge of the Workers’ Compensation Court and worked for the Supreme Court as its referee as well as the administrative director of the courts.

Justice Opala was born in 1921 in Lodz, Poland. He is the author of numerous legal papers, and a frequent lecturer at various national judicial and legal education programs. Since 1982 he has been an Oklahoma commissioner in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. A member of the Order of the Coif and the American Law Institute, he was appointed in December 1993 as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.