5-13-2025
Joseph Thai is the Watson Centennial Chair, Presidential Professor, and former Associate Dean for Research at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he teaches and writes about constitutional law, including the First Amendment and the Supreme Court.
Prof. Thai graduated with highest honors from Harvard College, where he studied English literature, and Harvard Law School. He served as law clerk to Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David Ebel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Prof. Thai has frequently engaged in civil rights litigation. He served on the legal team that successfully challenged Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban a year before the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality nationwide.
For over a decade, Prof. Thai taught thousands of graduates from law schools nationwide as the constitutional law lecturer for BARBRI, the leading bar review course in the country.
In 2021, Prof. Thai was elected to the American Law Institute.
Prof. Thai has often been named outstanding professor by law students at OU and once by students university-wide. He is consistently named outstanding dad by his goldendoodle.
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