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Professor
Nathan Crystal
P.O.
Box 535
Charleston, S.C. 29402
Office:
385 Meeting St., 3rd floor (find
office on campus map)
Phone:
843.329.1000
Email: ncrystal@charlestonlaw.edu
Education
L.L.M.,
Harvard Law School, 1976
J.D.,
Emory Law School, 1971
B.S.,
University of Pennsylvania, 1968
Career
Class
of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility and Contract
Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. 1999-2008.
Crystal served as a professor at the school from 1976-2008.
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Nathan
Crystal
Distinguished
Visiting Professor
of Law
With more than 30 years in legal education, Distinguished
Visiting Professor Nathan Crystal has established himself as one
of the nation's preeminent teacher-scholars, according to Dean
Andy Abrams.
Author of critically acclaimed law books in the
fields of contracts and professional responsibility, Crystal will
teach courses in the field during the 2008-09 school year.
Crystal, who has a master's in law from Harvard
Law School (1976) and a law degree with honors from Emory Law
School (1971), taught at the University of South Carolina law
school from 1976 through this year, when he retired. At USC, he
served as the Class of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility
and Contract Law from 1999-2008. He held a similar position from
1991to1999. He also served as associate dean from 1987to1992.
Crystal is widely published in legal circles, including serving
as author of a text on professional responsibility now in its
fourth edition. The 2008 book, Professional Responsibility:
Problems of Practice and the Profession, is used at more than
30 law schools around the country. Additionally, he is co-author
of Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, which
is used at more than 80 law schools nationally.
Highly regarded as a speaker, Crystal has lectured and presented
papers to more than 100 professional organizations and academic
audiences worldwide.
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