OCU LAW Professor Emeritus Richard E. Coulson delivered the address at the annual OCU LAW Alumni Luncheon during the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on Nov. 19. The title of his remarks was "Reflections on the Legal Profession and Legal Education."

Coulson, an OCU LAW alumnus who graduated in 1968, began his teaching career at OCU LAW in 1969. Coulson’s wife and son are OCU alumni, and his daughter, Mary, graduated from OCU LAW in 1991.

Professor Coulson clerked for Chief Judge A. P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He has served on the Judicial Nominating Commission for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, by appointment of President James E. Carter; he chaired the Oklahoma Governor’s Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, by appointment of then-Governor David L. Boren; was special master for Oklahoma’s federal courts in the remedies portion of a large employment discrimination pattern and practice action; and was a judge for the Temporary Division of the Oklahoma Court of Appeals. He is active as a commercial arbitrator. He was in private practice in commercial law and bankruptcy reorganization. He is a member of the American Society of Legal History, the Selden Society, a director of the American Society of Comparative Law, and an editor of The American Journal of Comparative Law.