Law

Upon completion of the GC degree program, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate competency in core business and transactional law.
• Students will demonstrate competency in skills required of a transactional or business lawyer.

• Students enrolled in the GC. program in U.S. Legal Studies who plan to earn a certificate in Energy & Natural Resources Law will successfully complete a minimum of 12 credits in law courses focused on energy and natural resources law.

Upone completion of LLM degree students will be able to:

• Evaluate contract provisions and draft clear, concise, and accurate contracts and related documents used in the energy industry.  
• Analyze legal issues related to upstream and midstream law.   
• Implement energy law when negotiating disputes for resolution.  
• Apply legal regulations governing the energy industry.  
• Analyze project economics and finance in the energy industry.                       

• LL.M. candidates seeking a certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law will successfully complete at least 12 credits focused on American Indian Law.

Upon completion of the JD degree program, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law.
• Demonstrate proficiency in legal analysis and reasoning, legal research,  problem solving, and written and oral communication in the legal context.
• Acquire knowledge of proper professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and the legal system.
• Demonstrate proper professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and the legal system.
• Develop other professional skills needed for competent and ethical participation as a member of the legal profession.
• Become familiar with the use of technology to support the practice of law.
• Demonstrate an awareness of lawyers’ responsibilities to society including the provision of pro bono legal service.

Upon completion of the MLS degree program, students should be able to:

• Compare and contrast the legal and regulatory framework of the public and private systems for financing the purchase of healthcare services.
• Identify and compare different relationships existing within and between healthcare entities.
• Apply regulations and best practices protecting quality of healthcare delivery.
• Students recall the laws and regulations governing healthcare billing and effectiveness of government regulations and enforcement mechanisms. 
• Student evaluate the laws and regulations protecting private health information.

Upon completion of the LLM degree program, students should be able to:

• Analyze major federal and state statutes, regulations, government advisory opinions, judicial opinions, and initiatives in the area of health law and policy.
• Examine the past and present regulations of health care access, cost, quality, liability, organization, and finance.
• Examine the behaviors and activities of individual and institutional health care providers and public and private payers that can lead to civil, administrative, and criminal sanctions.
• Conduct quality legal research involving federal and state laws and policies impacting patients, insureds, and human research subjects in the United States.
• Demonstrate understanding of the federal common law, statutes, and regulations governing healthcare delivery in the United States.

Upon completion of the Indigenous Peoples Law MLS degree program, students should be able to:

• Conduct quality legal research involving the complex laws and policies of federal Indian laws.
• Examine the relationship between the U.S. system of government and various legal sources, including the Constitution, State and Supreme Court decisions, and federal statutes, as they relate to major historical eras in federal Indian Law and the three sovereigns: federal, state, and tribal governments.
• At the completion of this program, the students will analyze major historical federal Indian law statutes, Supreme Court decisions, treaties, and federal Indian policy initiatives from the seventeenth century through the present, including the eras of Colonial, Treaties, Removal and Reservations, Allotment, Reorganization, Termination, and Self-Determination.  
• Communicate ideas, insights, autobiographical/biographical cultural information, and research concerning Tribal Courts, as well as the intersection of religion, culture, and Indian laws. 
• Examine federal Indian laws and policies relevant to specific areas of Indian law. These areas include natural resources, water law, criminal and civil law, Indian Child Welfare, and gaming in Indian Country. 
• Communicate ideas, insights, autobiographical/biographical cultural information, and research concerning Tribal Courts, as well as the intersection of religion, culture, and Indian laws.

Upon completion of the Indigenous Peoples LLM degree program, students should be able to:

• Conduct quality legal research involving the complex laws and policies of federal Indian laws.
• Discuss the relationship between legal sources from the U.S. system of government involving the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, and federal statutes and policies with respect to the structure and interpretation of civil and criminal law, administrative law, and tribal law as related to the three sovereigns (federal, state, & tribal sovereigns). In a written exercise the students discuss issues concerning the three sovereigns.
• Analyze major historical federal statutes, Supreme Court decisions, treaties, and Indian policy initiatives from the seventeenth century through the present, including the eras of Removal, Allotment, Reorganization, Termination, and Self-Determination.
• Critique federal Indian laws and policies related to criminal and civil jurisdiction in Indian Country, tribal courts, natural resources, and religion, culture, & Indian law.
• Demonstrate understanding of the federal common law, statutes, and regulations governing indigenous people in the United States.

Upon the completion of the GC program, students should be able to:

• Display competency in Constitutional law and in the foundations for International law.  
• Exhibit knowledge in focused specialty areas of International Law.
• Exhibit competency with experiential skills required of an International lawyer.
• Apply interdisciplinary approaches using experiential skills required of an International lawyer.                                                           

Upon the completion of the program students should be able to:

• Apply knowledge of national, international, & transnational legal systems, including the European Union, WTO, and UNCITRAL, to analyze their effects on international business and international transactions.
• Research and apply critical thinking about various sources of international and transnational business law.
• Conduct research to understand, and apply laws related to legal and regulatory risks in a global market. 
• Identify regulatory structures used to combat international corruption and analyze how these structures and sanction regimes affect business transactions. 
• Identify and assess the roles and responsibilities of multinational corporations with respect to human rights.           

Upon the completion of the program students should be able to:

• Apply their knowledge about the nature and structure of national, international, and transnational legal systems, including the European Union, NAFTA, WTO, and UNCITRAL, to analyze how such structures and organizations affect international businesses and existing and proposed international transactions.
• Students conduct research to locate and apply various sources of international and transnational business law.
• Students conduct research to find, understand, and apply laws related to  legal and regulatory risks involving commercial activity between countries, including sales of goods across national boundaries, IP licensing, international tax structures, international arbitration, key international payment systems, and corporate law in a global market. legal and regulatory risks for a technology company.
• Students identify regulatory structures used to combat international corruption and analyze how these structures and sanctions regimes affect business transactions.
• Students identify and assess the roles and responsibilities of multinational corporations with respect to human rights.

Upon the completion of the program students should be able to:

• The International Certificate students complete two core College of Law courses and will gain knowldge of discipline.
• Guide Elective:Students complete nine credit hours from the approved College of Law Guided Elective
• Apply knpwledge of discipline by  actively participate in approved practicum, clinic, court, competition, or externship
• Gain interdisciplinary experinces by engaging in International interdisciplinary  learning experience associated with an approved experiential learning opportunities at the University of Oklahoma campus. 

• Students demonstrate competence in performing litigation skills.
• Students will demonstrate oral and written advocacy skills.
• Students engage with professional litigators to improve networking skills.

Upon completion of the LLM degree program, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate basic knowledge of the American Legal System.
• Demonstrate ability to perform online legal research and apply legal sources to analyze a legal issue and predict an outcome or draft a persuasive argument.
• An in-person LL.M. student seeking an imbedded certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law or Energy and Natural Resources Law demonstrates legal knowledge and expertise in Energy and Natural Resources Law or Indigenous Peoples Law.

Upon completion of the LLM degree program, students should be able to:

• Students will demonstrate understanding of the federal common law, statutes, and regulations governing healthcare delivery in the United States.

Upon completion of the OGEL degree program, students should be able to:

• Evaluate contract provisions and draft clear, concise, and accurate contracts and related documents used in the energy industry.
• Analyze legal issues surrounding upstream and midstream law.
• Implement energy law when negotiating disputes for resolution.
• Apply legal regulations governing the energy industry.
• Analyze project economics and finance in the energy industry.

Upone completion of this degree program students will be able to:

• Achieve competence in foundational energy law concepts and related legal areas of law. 
• Engage in experiential learning through the approved externships, contracts, or practicum.
• Complete one or more of ACCT 5202, LSO 6501, or BAD 101.
• Display knowledge in business related area of administrative, corporations and transaction law as a necessity for professional legal activity in this industry.