Thomas P. Crocker
Assistant Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 409
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-4790
crocketp@gwm.sc.edu
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Profile
Thomas Crocker joined the law faculty in the fall of 2005. He teaches Constitutional Law I (structure), Constitutional Law II (civil liberties), Criminal Procedure, and Jurisprudence.
Professor Crocker graduated from Yale Law School, where he was Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduating from law school, Professor Crocker clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to following his interest in law, he taught philosophy, graduating with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Wales (U.K.). He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in philosophy at St. Lawrence University, a teaching fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, and a teaching assistant in the Department of Philosophy at Yale.
Professor Crocker's scholarly focus is on constitutional principles of free speech and equality as well as theoretical issues at the intersection of law and philosophy.
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