Nathan M. Crystal

Class of 1969 Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Professional Responsibility & Contract Law

Contact Information USC School of Law 701 Main Street Columbia, South Carolina 29208 Email

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Scholarship

Books

Professional Responsibility: Problems of Practice and the Profession (Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed. 2004) 668 p. (first edition published by Little Brown & Co. 1996). The book is used at more than 30 schools around the country.

Teacher's Manual to accompany Professional Responsibility: Problems of Practice and the Profession, app. 300 p.

Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials (with Charles Knapp and Harry G. Prince of Hastings College of Law) (Aspen Law & Business 5th ed. 2003), 1058 p. The book is used at more than 80 law schools around the country. Our publisher tells us that it is either the first or second most widely adopted contracts book in the country. The sixth edition is forthcoming in 2007.

Rules of Contract Law: Selections from the Uniform Commercial Code, the CISG, the Restatement, (Second) of Contracts, and the Unidroit Principles, with Material on Contract Drafting (with Charles Knapp and Harry G. Prince) (Aspen Law & Business, 2005-2006 ed.), 300 p.

Teacher's Manual to accompany Problems in Contract Law (with Charles Knapp and Harry G. Prince) (Aspen Law & Business 5th ed. 2003), app. 300 pages.

Annotated South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct (S.C. Bar 2005 ed.) (with Professor Robert M. Wilcox), 450 p. http://www.law.sc.edu/annotatedscrpc/root?mode=view

An Introduction to Professional Responsibility (Aspen Law & Business, 1998), 529 pages.

Major Articles

Enforceability of Advance Waivers of Conflicts of Interest, forthcoming in the St. Mary's Law Journal.

Using the Concept of a Philosophy of Lawyering in Teaching Professional Responsibility, forthcoming in the St. Louis Law Journal.

False Testimony by Criminal Defendants: Still Unanswered Ethical and Constitutional Questions, 2003 U. Ill. L. Rev. 101
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History of Efforts to Define Lawyers' Professional Obligations in OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (Oxford University Press 2002)

Core Values: False and True, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 747 (2001)
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The Incompleteness of the Model Rules and the Development of Professional Standards, 52 Mercer L. Rev. 839 (2001)
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Developing a Philosophy of Lawyering, 14 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Poly 75 (2000)
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The Lawyer's Duty to Disclose Material Facts in Contract or Settlement Negotiations, 87 Ky. L.J. 1055 (1998-1999) (reprinted in the Defense Law Journal; listed in the Social Science Network Electronic Library)
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Limitations on Zealous Representation in an Adversarial System, 32 Wake Forest L. Rev. 671 (1997) (listed in the Social Science Network Electronic Library)
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Scienter in Professional Liability Cases (with Professor John Freeman), 42 So. Car. L. Rev. 783 (1991)

Disqualification of Counsel for Unrelated Matter Conflicts of Interest, 4 Geo. J. Leg. Ethics 273 (1990)

An Empirical View of Relational Contracts Under Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code, 1988 N.Y.U. Ann. Sur. of Am. Law 293

Confidentiality under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 30 Kan. L. Rev. 215 (1982)

Consumer Product Warranty Litigation in South Carolina, 31 So. Car. L. Rev. 293 (1980)

Ethical Problems in Marital Practice, 30 So. Car. L. Rev. 321 (1979)

Codification and the Rise of the Restatement Movement, 54 Wash. L. Rev. 239 (1979)

Other Publications

Essay on Teaching Methodologies for Professional Responsibility in Teaching the Law School Curriculum by Steven Friedland and Gerald Hess (Carolina Academic Press 2004)

South Carolina Legal Ethics (with Professor Robert M. Wilcox of USC Law School), published on the Internet and in CD-ROM as part of the American Legal Ethics Library sponsored by Cornell Law School, app. 150 pages.

Litigation Ethics: Course Material for Continuing Education ch. 5, "Contacts with Employees and Misdirected Communications," (ABA Sec. of Litig. 2000) (with Rebecca Laffitte)

Shorter Articles

South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct: Conflicts of Interest, South Carolina Lawyer (March/April 1991)

South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct: Provisions on Confidentiality, South Carolina Lawyer (Sept./Oct. 1990)

South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct: Provisions on Legal Fees and Client Relations, South Carolina Lawyer (March/April 1990)

The Malpractice Implications of Specialization, Transcript (Nov. 1988)

Is Any Code of Ethics Really Necessary?, Virginia Law Weekly (Feb. 11, 1983)