Professor Maute teaches basic and advanced courses in professional responsibility and the law of lawyering, gender-based discrimination and feminist jurisprudence. She is the founder and, between 2004 and 2010, the director of the University of Oklahoma’s law student pro bono program, Students for Access to Justice (SATJ). 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. 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 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.
Works in Progress
Books and Major Creative Works
Contributions to Books
Global Continental Shifts to New Governance Paradigm in Lawyer Regulation and Consumer Protection: Riding the Wave, variation reprinted in Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics : Reimagining the Profession (2011)
Sexual Misconduct, Multiple Client Conflicts and Issues in Negotiations, Litigation Ethics: Course Materials for Continuing Legal Education (2000)
Articles
Discussing "English Reforms to Judicial Selection: Comparative Lessons for American States?", City Square (Online companion to the Fordham Urban Law Journal) (2012)
Bar Associations, Self-Regulation and Consumer Protection: Whither Thou Goest?, Journal of the Professional Lawyer (2008)
Lawyering in the 21st Century: A Capstone Course on the Law and Ethics of Lawyering, Saint Louis University Law Journal (2007)
English Reforms to Judicial Selection: Comparative Lessons for American States?, Fordham Urban Law Journal (2007)
Book Reviews
The Actes and Monuments by John William Corrington; The Southern Reporter by John William Corrington, Oklahoma Law Review (1984)
Student Works
Class Certification: Relevance of Plaintiff's Finances and Fee Arrangements with Counsel (Comment), University of Pittsburgh Law Review (1978)
Student Workers or Working Students? A Fatal Question for Collective Bargaining of Hospital Staff (Note), University of Pittsburgh Law Review (1977)
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Exploring Ethical Quandaries in Pro Bono Law Practice (Moderator), 31st National Conference on Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility (2005)
Presentations (National and International)
Teaching Legal Ethics Using Comparative Materials (Panelist), The National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (2011)
Implementation of the U.K. Legal Services Act (2007), Its Potential Impact There & Elsewhere;, Fourth International Legal Ethics Conference (2010)
A Modest Proposal? Should NOBC Members Use Rule 5.1 More Proactively? (Panelist), National Organization of Bar Counsel (2008)
Change is in the Air: U.K. Legal Services Act (2007), Southern Methodist University Oxford Program (2008)
Presentations (Oklahoma)
The Women Lawyers Club (Panelist and Commentator), Oklahoma Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, Women in Law Committee, Litigation Section and Periaktos Productions (2007)
Legal Education and Continuous State of Partial Inattention (with Darin Fox), Faculty Lunch Presentation, University of Oklahoma College of Law (2007)
The Ballad of Willie and Lucille: Disappointed Expectations of Contract Law and of the Legal System (Lecture and World Premier), The Coats Hall Endowed Professorship Lecture Series, University of Oklahoma College of Law (2007)