ABOUT THE LL.M. PROGRAM
The John B. Turner LL.M. Program at OU Law extends the school’s longstanding history of excellence and expertise in energy law, natural resources law and indigenous peoples law. This program is designed to be flexible, allowing international and American students to study in all three areas or concentrate their studies in one or two of these areas.
The LL.M. program offers a combination of courses available only at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to studying with the outstanding faculty, students have unique interdisciplinary opportunities to receive credit for related courses offered by other departments. The LL.M. program also includes guest lectures, field trips, social events and networking opportunities.
OU Law has one of the most favorable faculty-student ratios among law schools world-wide, so students will enjoy unsurpassed opportunities for close interaction with full-time faculty.
Legendary professors including Peter Krug, Richard Hemingway, Victor Kulp, Eugene Kuntz, Maurice Merrill, Joe Rarick and Rennard Strickland have made the OU Law a national leader in energy, natural resources and indigenous peoples. Professors who continue this tradition include Owen Anderson (oil and gas law, oil and gas contracts and tax, international petroleum law and transactions), Taiawagi Helton (environmental law and Indian natural resources law), Drew Kershen (water law, agricultural law, international bio-technology law), Emily Meazell (energy law), Joyce Palomar (land tenure security law, real estate development law, and land use law), Lindsay Robertson (Indian law, indigenous peoples law, human rights law) and Murray Tabb (environmental law). In addition, the College is fortunate to have several distinguished adjunct and visiting professors who teach highly specialized classes in this program area.
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ABOUT JOHN B. TURNER
Thanks to a generous gift, the John B. Turner LL.M. Program Chair was created to perpetually attract the best possible LL.M. faculty members in the current areas of specialization: energy, natural resources and indigenous peoples. An additional generous gift will be used to create the Stuart Family Foundation LL.M. Scholar Fund, which will allow the program to bring in notable guest speakers and help LL.M. students pursue extra-curricular learning opportunities, including attending relevant national and international conferences.
Attorney John B. Turner is a trustee of the Stuart Family Foundation, executive vice president and general counsel of First Stuart Corporation and a partner in the Stuart, Biolchini & Turner law firm.
Turner holds bachelor and juris doctor degrees from the University of Tulsa and earned an LL.M. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1975. His practice area of expertise is estate planning. He was admitted to the bar in 1967 as well as the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy from 1967-1970. He was admitted to the U.S. Tax Court in 1971. He is a member of the Tulsa County, Oklahoma, and American Bar Associations, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
CONTACT
John B. Turner LL.M. Program
OU College of Law
Andrew M. Coats Hall
300 Timberdell Road
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
David Dye, Associate Director
Phone (405) 325-6603
Email: david.w.dye@ou.edu
Email: llm@law.ou.edu