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The University of Oklahoma College of Law will honor Gregory L. Mahaffey, shareholder and president of the Oklahoma City law firm Mahaffey & Gore, P.C., with the Eugene Kuntz Award at the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Reception Nov. 16.

The United States Senate today confirmed Scott Palk, Assistant Dean of Students for the University of Oklahoma College of Law, to the federal bench to serve as a U.S. district court judge for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Noted legal history scholar Ross E. Davies will present “Five Little Lessons in Lawyering from Thurgood Marshall” as the keynote speaker of the 2017 Henry Lecture Series, set for noon Monday, Oct. 23, in the Dick Bell Courtroom at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

The University of Oklahoma College of Law has been ranked 10 th in the nation out of more than 200 law schools as a “Best Value” law school, according to National Jurist magazine.

Graduates of the University of Oklahoma College of Law achieved a 95 percent pass rate on the bar exam for first-time exam takers, the highest in the state.

Two University of Oklahoma College of Law professors, Mary Sue Backus and Joseph Thai, have been appointed to the Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

The University of Oklahoma College of Law’s Herman G. Kaiser Chair in International Law, Evelyn Aswad, recently received the World Experiences Foundation’s 2017 Global Citizen in Law and Politics Award at the foundation’s annual gala.

The University of Oklahoma College of Law has been named “Best Law School” in Oklahoma, according to The Journal Record’s 2017 Reader Rankings. In addition, OU was selected as...

Liesa Richter, William J. Alley Professor of Law, has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI). The new class includes 58 members who bring a wide range of perspectives and areas of expertise...

This month, the University of Oklahoma College of Law celebrated the Class of 2017’s graduation, marking the first year an OU Law class collectively completed the school’s Digital Initiative programming, and making the college the first law school in the nation to do so.