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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

The College of Law


Dean
Lyn Entzeroth

Professors
Chuck Adams
Gary Allison
Thomas Arnold
Marianne Blair
Barbara Bucholtz
Robert Butkin
Russell Christopher
Lyn Entzeroth
Evelyn Hutchison
Janet Levit
Vicki Limas
Johnny Parker
Tamara Piety
Judith Royster
Bob Spoo
Ray Yasser
Rex Zedalis

Clinical Professor
Winona Tanaka

Associate Professors
Stephen Galoob
Karen Grundy
Matt Lamkin
Gina Nerger

Associate Clinical Professors
Anna Carpenter
Elizabeth McCormick

Assistant Professors
Dan Bell
Melissa Luttrell

Assistant Clinical Professor
Miriam Marton

For more information about degree offerings by the faculty of the College of Law, visit the College of Law webpage.

The University of Tulsa College of Law is ranked as a top 100 law school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report 2018 Best Graduate Schools rankings. For information on the College of Law’s J.D. program as well as its LL.M. and Master of Jurisprudence programs, see the College of Law Bulletin.

The College of Law offers students opportunities for small class sizes, one-on-one interactions with professors and individualized career counseling. Professors and students enjoy newly-renovated facilities that include state-of-the-art electronic classroom technology. Academic life is enriched by the College of Law’s many lectures, conferences, and programs which are open to the entire Tulsa community.

The College of Law offers three unique opportunities for undergraduate students at The University of Tulsa:  The undergraduate Law, Policy and Social Justice Minor ; the Arts and Sciences Accelerated Law Program ; and the Business and Law Accelerated Program .

Law, Policy and Social Justice Minor

The undergraduate Law, Policy and Social Justice Minor  at The University of Tulsa College of Law has the general aim of making the law a centerpiece for interdisciplinary inquiry into the diverse ways in which cultures-notably, but not exclusively, American society-have sought to achieve order and justice through appeals to recognized authority. The subject of law as a field worthy of study is widely acknowledged at The University of Tulsa but until now has been accessible mainly to J.D. and LL.M. students who pursue a professional degree in the College of Law or to undergraduates who take courses that include legal subject matter but typically are ancillary to a chosen concentration in the humanities or business. The law is much more than either of these applications. Instead, it provides a way to think through a different intellectual lens about the evolution of society and the problems that threaten fairness, justice, and inclusiveness in society. Social history; conceptions of social conformity; juridical expectations regarding rights, obligations, and interpersonal relations; evolving ideas of justice and punishment from cross-cultural perspectives and from perspectives of history are all revealed through study of the law.

The Law, Policy and Social Justice Minor  enables students to explore law as a diverse human effort to achieve collective order without sacrificing individuality or the freedoms of discrete and insular minorities. The use of law as an instrument of policy for effecting change and improvement in human societies is examined in historical and present-day contexts, and in descriptive and normative modes of inquiry. Areas that students may pursue through coursework in the minor include, for example, morality, responsibility, theories of punishment, the American legal system, international law, legal and political philosophy, literature, sports, the death penalty, sex crimes, climate and the environment, copyrights and intellectual property, and the internet as a space both for self-expression and for piracy and other controversial activities.

Arts and Sciences Accelerated Law Program

Through a collaborative program with the College of Law and the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, selected students can complete their undergraduate degree and a J.D. in six years. At the end of their second semester in law school and the completion of 124 applicable semester hours, students in the program will be awarded a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree. Students in the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences are eligible to apply for admission to the accelerated law program in their third year of undergraduate study at The University of Tulsa. Admission is highly selective. Visit the College of Law Arts and Sciences Accelerated Law Program page for requirements for applicants and the Arts and Sciences Accelerated Law Program  page for curricular requirements.

For more information about this program, contact April Fox, Associate Dean and Director of Admissions, TU College of Law, at april-fox@utulsa.edu, or the Lamont Lindstrom, TU College of Arts and Sciences, at lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu.

Business and Law Accelerated Law Program

Through a collaborative program with the College of Law and the Collins College of Business, selected students can complete their undergraduate degree and a J.D. in six years. At the end of their first year in law school and the completion of 124-125 applicable semester hours, students in the program will be awarded a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.) degree with a major in business and law.  Students in the Collins College of Business are eligible to apply for admission to the Business and Law Accelerated Law Program in the fall of their third year of undergraduate study at The University of Tulsa. Admission is highly selective. Visit the College of Law Business and Law Accelerated Law Program page for requirements for applicants and the Accelerated Business and Law Program for Exceptional Students  page for curricular requirements.

For more information about this program, contact April Fox, Associate Dean and Director of Admissions, TU College of Law, at april-fox@utulsa.edu, or Rick Arrington, Assistant Dean, TU Collins College of Business, at rick-arrington@utulsa.edu.

Pre-law Study

Information about pre-law programs offered by other Colleges at The University of Tulsa may be found on the Pre-law  page.

Programs

Minor

Courses

Law

  • LAWU 2013 The Law, Ethics and Psychology of Responsibility


    (3 hours) Block Two
    Examines philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific debates about the possibility of responsibility, with particular emphasis on how these debates apply to criminal and tort law.
  • LAWU 2023 Steal This Course: Piracy from the High Seas to the Internet


    (3 hours)
    Explores many kinds of “piracy,” beginning with piracy on the high seas and emphasizing intellectual-property piracy, lawful and unlawful, in today’s Internet culture. Readings include Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island (1883), Lawrence Lessig’s Remix (2008), and materials on YouTube, Google, and other media. Students will complete specified writing assignments.
  • LAWU 2393 Politics of the Global Commons


    (3 hours) Block Two
    Examines contemporary governance issues and policy pertaining to the environment, ecosystems,oceans, outer space, and the poles - spaces that constitute the global commons. How are problems at the global commons likely to affect human wellbeing and security? Same as POL 2393 .
  • LAWU 3003 The Art of Analytical Thinking


    (3 hours)
    Teaches critical thinking across the spectrum of disciplines, asking why certain arguments are persuasive and others are not. Students will examine the practice of law as a competitive sport of persuasion; the lawyering process in litigation; cognitive theory and analytical thinking in law; and analytical tools for building the client’s case. The course will conclude with the nexus between analysis and rhetoric, and rhetoric and the game of persuasion.
  • LAWU 3013 Federal Indian Law


    (3 hours)
    A study of the history, policy and law of the relations between the United States and the Indian tribes. Focuses on the powers and responsibilities of the federal government, the governmental status and authority of the Indian tribes, and conflicts over authority between tribal and state governments.
  • LAWU 3023 Copyright in the Digital Age


    (3 hours)
    Explores the fundamentals of United States copyright law, including the subject matter of copyrights; ownership and transfer of copyrights; duration of copyrights; the fair use doctrine and other limitations on the copyright owner’s exclusive rights; copyright infringement; and remedies for infringement. Attention will be given to digital technologies.
  • LAWU 3032 Medical Consumerism


    (2 hours)
    Examines the legal and ethical transformations being wrought by the increasing tendency to view medicine as commerce. Topics include corruption in pharmaceutical testing and marketing, “disease-mongering” (broadening conceptions of illness to enlarge the market for potential treatments), assisted reproduction commerce, and global medical tourism, among others.
  • LAWU 3053 The Law of Sports


    (3 hours)
    Focuses on legal issues in intercollegiate sports. Topics include the legal aspects of athletic scholarships; intellectual-property rights in the context of big time intercollegiate sports; gender equality (Title IX); drug testing; the nature of the right to participate in sports; NCAA governance issues; sports-related tort issues; and sports violence.
  • LAWU 3082-3 Law and Literature


    (2-3 hours)
    Libel law, obscenity law, and copyright law are explored and compared to corresponding present-day regimes in the United States. Topics involving each of these areas include The Oscar Wilde trials of 1895, United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, and Lawsuits by the Estate of James Joyce against individuals and entities for copyright infringement.
  • LAWU 3972 Seminar


    (2 hours)
    Examines the legal and ethical transformations being wrought by the increasing tendency to view medicine as commerce. Topics include corruption in pharmaceutical testing and marketing, “disease-mongering” (broadening conceptions of illness to enlarge the market for potential treatments), assisted reproduction commerce, and global medical tourism, among others.
  • LAWU 4012 Theories of Punishment


    (2 hours)
    Surveys the law and philosophy of punishment.  Topics which may be covered include the conceptual definition of punishment, justifications of punishment, the problem of punishment of the innocent, the proportionality of punishment, the degree of punishment, punishment under plea bargains, the death penalty, and post-conviction, pre-execution confinement.
  • LAWU 4013 Women and the Law


    (3 hours)
    Explores the law’s role in the subordination of women with emphasis on the workplace, in particular issues for women as lawyers; other issues include bodily integrity, the legal construction of family, history of women’s movement, the ERA, feminist theory, intersectionality, gender stereotypes, and First Amendment issues.
  • LAWU 4023 Bioethics and the Law


    (3 hours)
    Examines intersections between law, medicine, and ethics. May cover medical research ethics, corruption in the medical industry, reproduction issues (assisted reproduction, prenatal genetic testing, eugenics), death and dying (assisted suicide, refusing life-sustaining treatment), emerging issues surrounding the uses and misuses of genetic information.
  • LAWU 4042 Sex Crimes


    (2 hours)
    Surveys the basic issues of the criminal law of rape and sexual assault. Objectives: learning the basic principles and elements of the substantive criminal law of rape and sexual assault; applying the basic tools and methods to analyze problems; understanding the policy issues and underlying theory; appreciation and recognition of the interrelation of
    procedural and evidentiary issues with doctrines of substantive law.
  • LAWU 4063 Climate Change


    (3 hours)
    Covers domestic and international legal and public policy issues related to climate change. Topics include climate science, risk and uncertainty; responses to climate concerns in various political fora, including international fora; the theory and operationalization of international, cooperative mitigation strategies; domestic mitigation strategies; and legal and policy issues related to climate change adaptation.
  • LAWU 4162 Climate Change


    (2 hours)
    Covers domestic and international legal and public policy issues related to climate change, including:  climate science, risk and uncertainty; political responses to climate concerns; theory and operationalization of international cooperative mitigation strategies; domestic mitigation strategies including regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, proposed legislation and regional pacts; and issues related to climate change adaptation.
  • LAWU 4163 Philosophy of Natural Law and Natural Right


    (3 hours)
    An introduction to the Western natural law tradition. The course is grounded in a study of Thomas Aquinas on natural law, and proceeds to examine discussions by Hobbes, Locke, Kant,
    Fuller, and Hart. Same as PHIL 4163 /REL 4163 .