From 2005-2006 Professor Spiropoulos was the Senior Counselor to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where his duties included serving as chief policy advisor and negotiator. Professor Spiropoulos clerked for Judge Danny Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law with the Chicago firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas before joining the faculty. He has been a Heritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow and is an adjunct scholar with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. He was the reporter for the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act. Professor Spiropoulos received his B.A. degree from Carleton College and his M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa). He teaches Constitutional Law, Legislation, State and Local Government, and Legal Analysis.
Articles
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Von Creel, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 29-31 (2011)
(forthcoming) Reaction or Reformation?: Leo Strauss and American Constitutional Law, __ Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review __-__ (2011)
Rights Done Right: A Critique of Libertarian Originalism, 78 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 661-704 (2010)
Just Not Who We Are: A Critique of Common Law Constitutionalism, 54 Villanova Law Review 181-245 (2009)
Book Review: To Kill and Take Possession, Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories, 23 Law & History Review 460-62 (2005)
Contributions to Books
The Enumeration Clause, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2005)
The Flag Protection Act of 1989, Major Acts of Congress (2004)
Free to Choose: Leveling the Playing Field for Non-Union Educators, Oklahoma Policy Blueprint: An Action Plan for Advancing Economic and Educational Freedom (2002)
It All Starts at the Top: Reforming Oklahoma's Executive Branch, Oklahoma Policy Blueprint: An Action Plan for Advancing Economic and Educational Freedom (2002)
Unpublished Papers
TOCQUEVILLE AND THE AMERICAN AMALGAM, ExpressO (2012)
Any serious attempt to understand the original meaning of the Constitution requires an inquiry into...
REACTION OR REFORMATION?: LEO STRAUSS AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, ExpressO (2010)
This article explains the importance of the work of the political theorist Leo Strauss to...