Rate My Professor Erin DeWalt

Professor Erin DeWalt serves as the Director of Legal Research and Writing and Professor of Legal Research and Writing at the University of Oklahoma College of Law within the Law faculty. She teaches first-year and upper-level courses in legal writing, oral advocacy, and legal foundations. Prior to academia, she practiced as an associate attorney at Gungoll, Jackson, Collins, Box & Devoll, P.C. in Enid, Oklahoma, where her litigation practice focused on oil and gas law, construction law, commercial law, negligence, contract disputes, and property disputes. During this period, she received the Outstanding Young Lawyer award from the Garfield County Bar Association. Professor DeWalt earned her B.S. summa cum laude as valedictorian from Saint Gregory’s University in 2005 and her J.D. with honors from the University of Oklahoma in 2009. At OU Law School, she served as a Note Editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and was named a member of the Order of the Coif. She joined the OU Law faculty in 2012.

In addition to her teaching and administrative duties, Professor DeWalt coaches competitive skills teams for the ABA Negotiation Competition, ABA Mediation Competition, South Texas Energy Law Negotiation Competition, and the California Lawyer Sports & Entertainment Law Negotiation Competition. She also served as the national problem writer for the ABA Negotiation Competition for three years. She is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors, regularly presenting at legal writing conferences across the country. Professor DeWalt serves as faculty advisor for the Organization for the Advancement of Women in Law (OAWL). Her service includes roles on the Board of Editors for the Oklahoma Bar Journal, as a Director for the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, participation in the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Leadership Academy, and membership in the Luther Bohanan American Inn of Court.