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Graduates of the University of Oklahoma College of Law achieved a strong 94% pass rate on the Oklahoma Bar Exam for first-time test takers, with an overall passage rate for OU graduates of 93%.

A transformational gift to the University of Oklahoma College of Law will secure an endowed chair position on the college’s faculty, named in honor of civil rights pioneer and OU Law alumna Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher.

The University of Oklahoma College of Law is pleased to welcome three new faculty members.

A recent charitable gift to the University of Oklahoma College of Law will help transform the college’s faculty library into a faculty collaboration center, while also contributing to the establishment of an endowed professorship – both of which will be named in recognition of the Lou and Connie Miller Charitable Foundation’s $1 million gift to the college.

Kenton Brice, director of technology innovation at the OU College of Law, has been selected as a member of OU’s Leadership Council class of 2021.

NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma College of Law will now accept GRE scores from applicants in lieu of LSAT scores when applying for law school admission. This decision, which has been approved by the OU Board of Regents, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and OU College of Law faculty, provides applicants with greater flexibility when considering a legal education.

The Department of Legal Assistant Education at the University of Oklahoma is offering 100% online courses for the Fall 2020 semester in synchronous and asynchronous formats. Applications are currently being accepted for the department’s fall semester Paralegal Certificate Program.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $50,000 investment to fund a University of Oklahoma College of Law project led by Evelyn Mary Aswad, OU law professor and Herman G. Kaiser Chair in International Law. The grant supports comparative research between the First Amendment and international human rights law’s protections for speech online.

NORMAN, OKLA. – University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor Monika Ehrman was re-elected vice president of education of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. She will serve a one-year term concluding in May 2021.

Professor Evelyn Aswad, Herman G. Kaiser Chair at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, has been appointed to the newly created Oversight Board , which will review certain content decisions by Facebook and Instagram.