Online Master of Legal Studies

Brian McCall

Orpha and Maurice Merrill Chair in Law Brian McCall joined the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2006 and was awarded tenure in 2012. He holds the Orpha and Maurice Merrill Endowed Professorship of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on corporate governance, commercial law, legal philosophy, and international business transactions. Before joining OU, he was a partner at Dechert LLP, where he focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. From 1999 to 2006, he practiced in the firm’s London office, advising clients including Citigroup, JPMorgan, the London Stock Exchange, Comcast Corporation, Tate & Lyle, and Rabobank. He has spoken at conferences on consumer finance, corporate governance, legal philosophy, international securities offerings, and private equity law and has authored books and articles on corporate governance, commercial law, and legal philosophy. In 2014, he served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where he taught Business Associations and a seminar on law, business, society, and Catholicism.

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Erin Means DeWalt

Director of Legal Research and Writing, Professor of Legal Research and Writing Erin DeWalt is Director of Legal Writing and a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. She teaches first-year and upper-level courses in legal writing, oral advocacy, and legal foundations and coaches competitive skills teams in negotiation and mediation. She has also served as the national problem writer for the ABA Negotiation Competition and regularly presents at legal writing conferences across the country. DeWalt is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She joined the OU Law faculty in 2012 after practicing litigation in Enid, Oklahoma, with a focus on oil and gas, construction, commercial, negligence, contract, and property disputes. She was recognized as Outstanding Young Lawyer by the Garfield County Bar Association. DeWalt earned her JD with Honors from the University of Oklahoma, where she served as a Note Editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

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Gail Mullins

Professor of Practice Gail Mullins is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she teaches Legal Research, Writing & Appellate Advocacy, Intermediate Legal Writing, Bioethics, and Introduction to Legal Drafting in the Oil, Gas & Energy Law Master’s program. She previously practiced law in private practice and served as a lobbyist to the Oklahoma State Legislature. Before pursuing her law degree, Mullins earned a bachelor's degree in medical technology from Oklahoma State University and completed a clinical internship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where she was named Outstanding Student in her graduating class. She is certified as a Specialist in Hematology by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Mullins earned her JD with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma, where she served as a Note Editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, American Bar Association, and Legal Writing Institute.  

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Megan Wischmeier Shaner

Kenneth E. McAfee Chair in Law, President’s Associates Presidential Professor Megan Shaner teaches Business Associations, Contracts, Corporate Drafting, and Unincorporated Business Entities at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Her scholarship focuses on business associations, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and transactional law. A member of the Delaware Bar, she has published in the William & Mary Law Review, Boston College Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, George Mason Law Review, The Journal of Corporation Law, and The Business Lawyer, among other leading journals. She is also the author of chapters in the Research Handbook on Mergers & Acquisitions and the Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation. Before joining OU, Shaner practiced at Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., in Wilmington, Delaware, where she advised and represented corporations, officers, directors, board committees, stockholders, and investors on corporate, fiduciary duty, and transactional matters involving Delaware corporations and alternative entities. She earned her JD from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she served as an editor of the Iowa Law Review, and her bachelor’s degree from Drake University.

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Sunny Rowland

Assistant Professor Sunny Rowland is the Director of Academic and Bar Support at OU Law and the Director of the Paralegal Studies Program. Before joining OU Law, she practiced law in Oklahoma City, focusing on transactional law and mediation. Rowland began developing and teaching courses for OU’s College of Liberal Studies and College of Professional and Continuing Studies and OU Law’s Paralegal Studies Program in 2006. She is admitted to practice law in Oklahoma and holds Supreme Court of Oklahoma certifications in civil, commercial, employment, and family/domestic mediation. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, American Bar Association, Association of Academic Support Educators, and Association of American Law Schools.

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