by Mike Davis | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
When is election day? Most people probably assume it’s the first Tuesday in November. That makes sense, since that’s the date for statewide elections, and, in even numbered years, federal elections as well. Would it surprise you to learn that there is an election...
by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog
Oklahoma’s Attorney General and trial courts appear to now be in the business of taxing industries and appropriating funds to state agencies. These are powers that the Oklahoma Constitution explicitly grants to the legislature. They are certainly not given to the...
by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 4, 2019 | Research
Legislators in Black Robes: Unelected Lawmaking by the Oklahoma Supreme Court Author Benjamin Lepak Abstract This paper criticizes the Oklahoma Supreme Court for arbitrary rulings that are designed to obtain policy outcomes desired by the Court rather than...
by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog
When the nine lawyers on the Oklahoma Supreme Court meet to hear a case, no legislation is safe. That’s because the justices on the Supreme Court regularly act as though they are lawmakers instead of judges. My most recent paper, Legislators in Black Robes:...
by Byron Schlomach | Mar 26, 2019 | Research
The Need for a Knowledge and Skills Audit of State Government Jobs Authors Byron Schlomach, Vance H. Fried Abstract This paper finds that state job postings often require, or express a preference for, levels of education for applicants that are greater than necessary....
