Education
- B.A., Political Science, University of Oklahoma
- J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law
Research Interests
- Evidence
- Criminal Justice Reform
- Civil Procedure
About
Hayley Stillwell joined the OU Law faculty in 2024, where she teaches, researches, and writes in areas targeting criminal justice system reform, with a particular focus on critically analyzing and reforming evidentiary rules. Her scholarship has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming), the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the George Mason Law Review, among others, and has been cited in amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sooner born and sooner bred, Professor Stillwell earned a B.A. summa cum laude and a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma. In law school, she finished number one in her class and earned membership in the Orders of the Coif, Barristers, and Scribes. After earning her J.D., Professor Stillwell served as a law clerk to federal and state judges at all levels of the court system and gained valuable practice experience as a litigation associate at top Oklahoma City and Houston law firms.
Additional Information
Placebo Trials: A New Tool to Discourage Wrongful Convictions Caused by Jury Error (forthcoming in the Arizona State Law Journal).
Malicious Prosecution as Undue Process: A Fourteenth Amendment Theory of Malicious Prosecution, 20 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 225 (2022) (with Hon. Timothy Tymkovich).
Shadow Dockets Lite, 92 Denver L. Rev. 2 (2022).
The Meaningless Factual Basis Inquiry of Rule 11(b)(3), 28 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1089 (2021).
The Lesser of Two Evils: Lowering the Constitutional Amendment Bar to Avoid an Unadaptable Constitution, Judicial Activism, and Disrupted Federalism, 12 Drexel L. Rev. 521 (2020).
Is Barrios the Death Knell of Bosh? The Sovereign Immunity Battle Between the Oklahoma Supreme Court and Legislature over Constitutional Torts, 72 Okla. L. Rev. 341 (2020).
A License to Infringe: The Tenth Circuit’s Reliance on the Reasonable Observer Test to Determine Symbolic Speech Protection of License Plates, 69 Okla. L. Rev. 319 (2017).
Judicial Clerk for Judge Michael Park
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judicial Clerk for Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Judicial Clerk for Judge Patrick Wyrick
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Judicial Clerk for Justice Patrick Wyrick
Oklahoma Supreme Court