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Law School News: A Juneteenth Message From The Dean, Gregory W. Bowman

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Calling A Spade A Spade: Understanding Sex Offender Registration As Punishment And Implications Post-Starkey, Alex Duncan

Oklahoma Law Review

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America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions Of Power And Community, Robert Tsai

Robert L Tsai

The U.S. Constitution opens by proclaiming the sovereignty of all citizens: "We the People." Robert Tsai's gripping history of alternative constitutions invites readers into the circle of those who have rejected this ringing assertion--the defiant groups that refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "the people" are and how their authority should be exercised. America's Forgotten Constitutions is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists. Beginning in the nineteenth century, Tsai chronicles eight episodes in which discontented citizens took the extraordinary step of drafting a new constitution. He examines …

Oklahoma's Indigency Determination Scheme: A Call For Uniformity, Carrie Savage Phillips

Oklahoma Law Review

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Oklahoma's Save Our State Amendment And The Conflict Of Laws, John T. Parry

Oklahoma Law Review

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The Unconstitutionality Of Oklahoma's Sq 755 And Other Provisions Like It That Bar State Courts From Considering International Law, Penny M. Venetis

Cleveland State Law Review

This paper will discuss SQ 755's many legal deficiencies, focusing primarily on its constitutional infirmities. First, SQ 755 is a clear violation of the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. The prohibition on looking to international law requires that Oklahoma courts disregard U.S. treaty obligations, and the law of nations (also known as customary international law), which are all binding on American courts. Second, SQ 755 unconstitutionally limits a state's duty to give full faith and credit to the judicial decisions of other states. The law is clear that no state has the authority to condition its …

Pro-Gun Property Regulation: How The State Of Oklahoma Controls The Property Rights Of Employers Through Firearm Legislation, J. Blake Patton

Oklahoma Law Review

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Essay: Curing A Monumental Error: The Presumptive Unconstitutionality Of Ten Commandment Displays, Peter Irons

Oklahoma Law Review

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Oklahoma Advance Directive Act: Denying Choice To Those Who Cannot Choose--A Proposal For Legislative And Practical Alternatives, Matthew B. Hickey

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: Retarded Justice: The Supreme Court's Subjective Standards For Capital Punishment Of The Mentally Retarded, Daniel Nickel

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: The Garvee Bonds Case And Executive Power: Breakthrough Or Blip?, Andrew C. Spiropoulos

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: United States V. Viefhaus And The Demise Of The Libertarian Philosophy In Free Speech Jurisprudence, Stephanie D. Wade

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: Establishment Clause V. Free Expression: Adler V. Duval County School Board, Ron Shinn

Oklahoma Law Review

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Criminal Procedure: Allowing The Prosecution A "Second Bite At The Apple" In Non-Capital Sentencing: Monge V. California, Eva Maria Floyd

Oklahoma Law Review

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Oklahoma Constitutional Law: The Future Of The Fourth Amendment In Oklahoma High Schools, Melinda Wyatt Gilliam

Oklahoma Law Review

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Oklahoma Constitutional Law: Highway Robbery: In Re Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority: The Eulogy For Oklahoma Constitutional Debt Limitations, Brian Edward Wheeler

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: Vouchers, Sectarian Schools, And Constitutional Uncertainty: Choices For The Unites States Supreme Court And The States, Catharine V. Ewing

Oklahoma Law Review

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Another Look At Evolving Standards: Will Decency Prevail Against Executing The Mentally Retarded?, Bryan Lester Dupler

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: Racial And Political Gerrymandering--Different Problems Require Different Solutions, Robert Redwine

Oklahoma Law Review

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Criminal Law: Kansas V. Hendricks--Warehousing Sex Offenders, Kayci Bair Hughes

Oklahoma Law Review

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Criminal Procedure: Walker V. State--Dooming Challenges To Appellate Counsel's Effectiveness, Jennifer Golm

Oklahoma Law Review

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Employment Law: Acevedo V. City Of Muskogee -- Creating A New Doctrine For Judging The Value Of Public Employee Speech Rights--Sound Policy Or Doctrinal Mutiny?, Timothy Wilson

Oklahoma Law Review

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Oklahoma School Finance Litigation: Shifting From Equity To Adequacy, Mark S. Grossman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article traces the history of Oklahoma school finance litigation from the initial challenge based on funding inequity to a recent lawsuit founded on alleged constitutional inadequacies in the state system. Although the legal challenge based on funding inequity was unsuccessful in the courts, the pendency of the suit helped push the state legislature toward some reforms. The threat of a new lawsuit based on alleged inadequacies in the state school system, together with a serious funding shortfall, propelled a comprehensive education reform plan through the state legislature in 1990. The association of local school boards that led the equity …

Regulation Of Water Use And Takings: A Growing Battlefield, Barton H. Thompson, Jr.

Regulatory Takings and Resources: What Are the Constitutional Limits? (Summer Conference, June 13-15)

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Constitutional Law: Freedom Of Religion--Peyote And The Native American Church, George De Verges

American Indian Law Review

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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Validity Of State Statute Requiring Public Employees To Take Loyalty Oath, James W. Callison, S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A statute of Oklahoma required public employees to take an oath that, among other things, they were not, for five years previous had not been, and would not become, affiliated with an organization which advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Oklahoma by force or violence or other unlawful means or which had been determined by the United States Attorney General to be a Communist front or subversive organization. A citizen and taxpayer sought to enjoin payment of salaries to teachers at Oklahoma A. & M. College who had not taken the …

Constitutional Law - State Control Of Interstate Migration Of Indigents, Edward W. Adams

Michigan Law Review

The interstate migration of persons presents the United States with one of its most acute economic and social problems and carries in its wake a series of significant legal questions. Of paramount importance is the constitutional question whether the migration of indigents is subject to state control. To lend understanding to this problem, attention will be called first to the basic economic and social urges underlying interstate migration and second to the position of the indigent as defined by traditional legal concepts. To complete the discussion, suggestions will be offered for corrective federal legislation.