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 11, number 1, was published in October and has been posted to the Current Issues page. This edition features nine student publications: “Digital Gold: The Impact of Bitcoin Mining on Texas Surface Owners’ Rights,” by Kenney Broadnax; “Not All That Glitters Is Black Gold: Using Stranded Gas to Mine Cryptocurrencies and the Public Regulation of Waste,” by Emily Burns; “The Clash Between Oklahoma’s Oil Industry and Overriding Royalty Interests: Why Legislative Action Is Needed,” by Bryce Cormack; “Walking on Sunshine: A Survey of Oklahoma Concurrent Land Use Law and How Accommodation Can Fill In Gaps Revealed by Emerging Solar Energy,” by Nick Halbroeder; “Liability in the Pipeline: The Expanding Scope of PFAS Litigation and Regulation,” by Rebecca Huckabay; “Analyzing the Invocation of the Force Majeure Clause Defense in Natural Gas Contract Dispute,” by Lindsay Kirkland; “Fault Lines in Fossil Fuel Policy: The Ripple Effect on Mineral Rights and Regulatory Taking Implications,” by Myles Meyring; “Ownership Rights to Produced Water in the New Age of Energy,” by Timothy Naegele; and “Blowing in the Wrong Direction? United States v. Osage Wind, LLC,” by Aubrey Thomas.
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 Thomas; 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 4, was published in September and has also 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.
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
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