Published four times a year, ONE J promotes legal scholarship in the oil and gas, energy, and natural resources fields and provides helpful case summaries for practitioners.
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Who We Are
The Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal (ONE J) focuses on all facets of the energy and natural resources industry—including oil and gas, wind and other renewables, water, and agriculture. Since ONE J began operation in the spring of 2015, its student editorial boards have published over 6,900 pages in eight volumes of scholarly articles and case summaries. Students publish a new ONE J issue online four times a year.
According to September 2023 statistics from Digital Commons, ONE J works have been downloaded 165,774 times from 195 countries since the journal’s founding. Readership for ONE J consists of scholars and practitioners around the world. The journal also hosts an annual symposium each spring.
Students at the College of Law are eligible to join ONE J during the summer before their 2L year. Rising 2L students may receive offers for membership based on either their performance in first-year classes or their written submissions during the annual law review writing competition. Rising 3L students and transfer students are also eligible for membership through the writing competition.
What's New at ONE J
ONE J's newest issue, volume 10, number 4, was published in September and has been posted to the Current Issues page. This edition features articles from ONE J's 2025 symposium, “Taking Stock at 25: The First and Next 25 Years of Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Law in the 21st Century." The articles are: “The Meaning of “Other Minerals” and Other Incidents of Mineral Ownership,” by Monika U. Ehrman & Colton Franks; “CO₂ Pipelines as Common Carriers,” by Madeleine Lewis & Tara Righetti; and “Reflections on the ‘Pore Space Estate,’” by Joseph A. Schremmer.
Editors serving on the ONE J editorial board for the 2025-2026 academic year are: Editor-in-Chief: Bryce Cormack; Managing Editor: Nick Halbroeder; Submissions Editor: Emily Burns; Article Editors: Caroline Brouillette, Rebecca Huckabay, and Aubrey Cates-Parr; Student Editors: Austin Priebe, Lindsay Kirkland, Timothy Naegele, Blake Wolters, and Kenny Broadnax; Symposium Editor: Quintesa Jeremias; Outreach Editor: Catilin Cannon; and Media Editor: Myles Meyring.
Volume 10, number 3, was published in February and has also been posted to the Current Issues page. This edition features the 2024 Survey of Oil and Gas. The Survey is a summary of oil-and-gas-related regulatory, judicial, and legislative developments covering twenty-five states, along with sovereign lands in the U.S. It covers developments from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024. The attorneys of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC conducted the research and prepared the articles for this issue, with the editorial assistance of ONE J members and candidates. The issue also includes recent case summaries on topics within the ONE J fields.
Back issues of ONE J from vol. 1, no. 1 are available free of charge at the journal's Digital Commons archive.
How to Contact Us
Bryce Cormack, Editor-in-Chief: Bryce.C.Cormack-1@ou.edu
Nick Halbroeder, Managing Editor: halbroeder@ou.edu
Emily Burns, Submissions Editor: emilyburns@ou.edu
ONE J’s regular mailing address is: ONE J: Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 300 Timberdell Road, Norman, OK 73019
Digital Commons
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