Charleston School of Law

Gershon
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Contact information

I. Richard Gershon
P.O. Box 535
Charleston, S.C. 29402

Phone: 843.377.2145
Email: rgershon@charlestonlaw.org

Career

LL.M. 1983, University of Florida.
J.D. with honors 1982, University of Tennessee.
B.A. 1979 University of Georgia.

Dean, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

Professor and associate dean, Stetson University College of Law; director, Institute for Space Law and Commerce

Assistant professor, Ohio Northern University College of Law.

Special assistant general counsel, State Bar of Georgia.

Published in the Nova Law Review, the Cumberland Law Review and the Ohio Northern Law Review.

I. Richard Gershon
Professor of Law

Prior to joining the faculty of the Charleston School of Law as its first dean and a professor of law, Richard Gershon served as Dean at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth Texas. During his tenure at Texas Wesleyan, Dean Gershon led the school to full ABA accreditation, applications increased 58 percent, median LSAT scores rose from 149 to 151, median undergraduate GPAs rose from 2.95 to 3.04, and the first-time bar passage rate increased from a high of 71.57 to 85.71 percent.

Gershon, who returned to the classroom at Charleston School of Law to teach full-time in 2008, was also on the faculties at Stetson University School of Law from 1984-1998. He was the Academic Associate Dean at Stetson from 1988-1992.