Joseph A. Schremmer

Joe Schremmer joined OU Law in 2023. He teaches courses in oil and gas, energy, and natural resources, as well as first-year property. His recent articles examine correlative rights, waste, property in pore space, subsurface trespass, and the surface-use rights of split estates. He is the sole update and revision author of Kuntz, A Treatise on the Law of Oil and Gas (Matthew Bender) (as of 2024) and a co-author of The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press). Schremmer also directs OU Law’s Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Center (ONE C).

Before joining OU Law, Schremmer was the Judge Leon Karelitz Oil & Gas Law Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Before that, he practiced law in Wichita, Kansas for six years and was a partner with Depew Gillen Rathbun & McInteer, LC. His practice covered most aspects of upstream oil and gas production, including title examination, transactional work, practice before the Kansas Corporation Commission, and civil litigation. He was the president of the Oil, Gas, and Minerals Section of the Kansas Bar Association and was recognized multiple times as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

In law school, Schremmer served as the editor-in-chief of the Kansas Law Review and received the Samuel Mellinger Award recognizing the top overall graduate in the areas of scholarship, leadership, and service.

Curriculum Vitae

• Joseph A. Schremmer

Education

B.A., University of Kansas, 2009
B.S., University of Kansas, 2009
M.B.A., University of Kansas, 2013
J.D., University of Kansas, 2013