Judith Maute
William J. Alley Professor of Law
President's Associates Presidential Professor
A.B., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1971
J.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1978
LL.M., Yale University, 1982
Professor Maute teaches contracts, basic and advanced courses in professional responsibility and the law of lawyering, gender-based discrimination and feminist jurisprudence. She is the founder and director of the University of Oklahoma’s law student pro bono program, Students for Access to Justice (SATJ).
Before entering legal education, Professor Maute was a litigator with Titus Marcus & Shapira, and Baskin & Sears, private firms in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty of The University of Oklahoma in 1982, and has taught as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, the University of Cincinnati, Willamette University, Ohio State University, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Besides occasional stints at teaching in The University of Oklahoma's Oxford Program, she has also taught summer school at the University of Utah, the University of San Diego and the University of Wisconsin.
Professor Maute writes and lectures extensively, with special focus on legal ethics, legal history, contracts, and dispute resolution. She has authored over twenty publications, with recent works in the law reviews at Fordham, Tulane, Northwestern, Georgetown and Utah. Her recent ethics scholarship concentrates on the evolution of lawyers' pro bono responsibilities, system design for the delivery of legal services to under-served communities, and selection of state court judges. Her study of Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal and Mining Co. Revisited: The Ballad of Willie and Lucille, published by the Northwestern Law Review in 1995, is considered a forerunner of a scholarly genre known by some as legal archeology. It will appear, in condensed form, in a forthcoming book on famous contracts cases, and also will be featured in a documentary film. She is embarking on a major comparative legal ethics project, on "Emerging Issues in the English Legal Professions: Competition, Fusion and Regulatory Structure."
Active in national academic and professional organizations, Maute has chaired the Section on Professional Responsibility and the Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), has served on the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Test-Drafting Committee, and serves on law school accreditation site inspection teams for the AALS and the American Bar Association. On a local level, Maute serves on the Oklahoma Bar Association Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, the Access to Justice Committee, and the Standing Committee on Women in Law.