Authors
Andrew C. Spiropoulos
Andrew C. Spiropoulos (M.A., J.D., University of Chicago) is the Robert S. Kerr, Sr. Professor of Constitutional Law at the Oklahoma City University School of Law. He previously served as the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at OCPA.
Recent Articles
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Good Government
What policymakers can learn from Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman, one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, showed us how to think about complex policy problems.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | February 24, 2025
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Budget & Tax, Education, Law & Principles
Bold reforms for a post-pandemic Oklahoma
In the aftermath of the pandemic, Oklahoma’s policymakers should put parents in charge of education with a universal Education Savings Account, eliminate the personal income tax, and reform our state’s dysfunctional regulatory system.Curtis Shelton, Greg Forster, Ph.D., Byron Schlomach, Ph.D. & Andrew C. Spiropoulos | February 21, 2022
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Economy
Regulatory reform will foster innovation and growth
As Oklahoma’s political leaders search for ways to fire up economic growth, they must turn their attention to Oklahoma's dysfunctional regulatory system.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | April 12, 2021
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Noneconomic-damages fix must be constitutional, not statutory
Any serious effort to reform a state’s civil justice system must include, as one of its core components, a solution to the problem of excessive claims for noneconomic damages, commonly understood as damages awarded for the pain and suffering experienced by the injured person seeking compensation.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | March 31, 2020
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Law & Principles, Good Government
It all starts at the top: Reforming Oklahoma’s executive branch
If Oklahoma is ever to have good government, the governor must persuade the people to change both the state constitution and the structure of the executive branch of state government.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | January 22, 2019
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Education, Good Government
SQ 801 empowers schools to set priorities
“Under current law, schools are prohibited from using a portion of school-dedicated property tax revenue on anything other than building-related expenses,” OCPA distinguished fellow Andrew Spiropoulos writes. SQ 801 “amends the state constitution to provide school districts increased authority to use property tax revenue to fund school operations.”Andrew C. Spiropoulos | August 16, 2018
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Law & Principles
The ethics of work and personal responsibility
OCPA distinguished fellow Andrew Spiropoulos reminds us that FDR compared welfare to a narcotic that saps self-respect and erodes the human spirit.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | July 26, 2018
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Good Government
Team game: Building an effective state legislature
Drawing on political science and practical experience, OCPA distinguished fellow Andrew Spiropoulos, a law professor who served as the chief policy advisor for Oklahoma’s Speaker of the House, recommends how to make the legislature an engine of good law and an effective vehicle for enacting the majority’s policy agenda.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | May 9, 2018
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Budget & Tax, Education
Proposal would raise teacher pay, tame the bureaucracy
State Rep. Tom Gann (R-Inola) has proposed a bill that will fund a teacher pay raise with investment income derived from the assets managed by the Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO).Andrew C. Spiropoulos | February 23, 2018
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Education
A Mosaic of Options
We hear a lot of talk these days about popular anger at elites. This rage has surprised not a few of our leaders. They, including the members of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, were especially shocked by the popular revulsion at the Court’s Ten Commandments decision. We witnessed a genuine “pitchfork” moment, where ordinary people are outraged by policies imposed on them by elites and moved to loudly say so.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | May 1, 2016
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