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Frank Elkouri (September 3, 1921 – January 20, 2013) was a University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor and author of labor arbitration treatise "How Arbitration Works".

Early life and education
Frank Elkour's father, David Elkouri, and mother, Adel Elkouri, immigrated from Jdeidet Marjeyoun, Lebanon as children in 1902 and 1909 respectively. Frank was one of seven children born to their marriage. The family moved to Oklahoma City for economic reasons in the years leading to World War II.

Elkouri graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oklahoma in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in government. He loved music his entire life and managed and played in a campus dance band. In 1947 he earned a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Subsequently earned an LLM in 1948 and an SJD in 1951 from the University of Michigan. His doctoral thesis "How Arbitration Works" was first published in 1952 and is widely regarded as the authoritative treatise on the law and the practice of labor arbitration.



Career
After graduating, Elkouri practiced law in Oklahoma City with Quinlan & Elkouri, a firm he co-founded along with a college classmate and served as an attorney with the National Wage Stabilization Board in Washington, D.C., and Dallas.

He joined the University of Oklahoma College of Law as a faculty member in 1952, and there taught labor law, property, trade regulation, torts, and workers’ compensation.

Elkouri has served as an arbitrator in labor management disputes, a special justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a member of the Oklahoma Governor’s Special Advisory Committee on Workmen’s Compensation, and an executive reservist with the United States Department of Labor.

Frank Elkouri retired from full-time teaching in 1985 and assumed emeritus status at the College of Law, writing and teaching until 2010. His service to the University of Oklahoma College of Law totaled 58 years.

Marriage
While working in Washington D.C. for the National Wage Stabilization Board, Elkouri met Edna Asper, a Georgetown law student. Edna graduated with honors from Georgetown and worked on the staff of the the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service for three years. They married in 1956 after a six-year courtship. Edna partnered with Frank and co-authored the second, third and fourth addition of "How Arbitration Works", "Resolving Drug Issues" and "Stories of the American Civil War: Why and How it was Fought". Edna was a member of the District of Columbia Bar and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals. She was also a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Philanthropy

 * 2002 - endowed the Frank and Edna Asper Elkour Professorship of Law University of Oklahoma College of Law
 * 2003 - endowed the Asper-Elkouri Scholarship Fund, to assist one or more theological students entering or continuing at St. Vladimir’s Seminary to pursue studies for the priesthood and/or ministry in the Orthodox Christian faith
 * 2011 - endowed student scholarships at the University of Oklahoma College of Law

Published works

 * 1952 - How Arbitration Works
 * 1957 - Federal Trade Regulations: Cases and Materials
 * 1978 - Worker' Compensation in Oklahoma
 * 1993 - Resolving Drug Issues
 * 2008 - Stories of the American Civil War: Why and How it Was Fought

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

 * 1974 - University of Oklahoma Distinguished Teaching Citation
 * 1979 - George Lynn Cross Research Professorship
 * 1980 - Whitney North Seymour Medal for outstanding contributions to arbitration, American Arbitration Association
 * 2010 - University of Oklahoma College of Law names the emeritus wing of the law school the Frank and Edna Asper Elkouri Emeritus Wing
 * 2014 - University of Oklahoma Board of Regents named the oval drive on the south side of the OU College of Law the “Professor Frank and Edna Asper Elkouri Oval"