Nathan M. Crystal
Class of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility & Contract Law
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Contact Information
Room 305
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-2851
f 206-666-2876
nathan@law.sc.edu
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Profile
Nathan M. Crystal is the Class of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility and Contract Law at USC, where he has taught for 30 years. After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he received his J.D. degree from Emory, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the law review, and an LLM from Harvard, where he was a Teaching Fellow and Director of the Legal Methods Program.
Professor Crystal teaches and writes principally in the areas of contract law and professional responsibility. He has published five books, three on professional ethics and two on contract law. His two casebooks on contracts (coauthored with Knapp and Prince) and professional ethics are widely used in law schools throughout the country. Professor Crystal also publishes frequently in major law reviews including Fordham, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics; Illinois; Kansas; Kentucky; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy; NYU Annual Survey of American Law; Mercer; South Carolina; Wake Forest; and Washington.
A highly regarded speaker, Professor Crystal has presented more than 100 lectures and papers to professional organizations and academic audiences throughout the world. In 2005, he delivered a series of ten lectures entitled "American Contract Law in a Comparative Perspective" at the Scuola Superiore Santa'Anna in Pisa, Italy, one of the top universities in the EU, with an internationally known faculty and a highly selective student body, including Ph.D. students from throughout Europe. During his visit in Italy, Professor Crystal also delivered lectures at two other highly regarded Italian Universities, University of Luiss in Rome and Bocconi University in Milan, on professional ethics and comparative contract law. In 2006 he is returning to Italy to deliver a series of lectures entitled, "The Attack on Lawyers in the US" at the University of Luiss in Rome.
Professor Crystal is a member and former Chair of the South Carolina Ethics Advisory Committee, where he frequently authors opinions on professional ethics. He serves as an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau's Auto-Line Program and was twice appointed as an examiner in Chapter 11 cases in federal bankruptcy court. Crystal frequently provides advice to lawyers and law firms on issues of professional ethics, malpractice, and disqualification. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association, ATLA, and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.
Professor Crystal has been invited to deliver distinguished lectures and to serve as a visiting professor at a number of law schools, including Hastings, Florida State, Indiana-Indianapolis, Suffolk and the Charleston Law School. In 2006 he was the Parsons Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney. He has won or shared the outstanding faculty scholarship award at USC Law School (4 times) and the outstanding faculty member award twice. He was also presented with the G.G. Dowling award given to the faculty member who most exemplifies integrity, scholarship, and concern for others.
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