Eboni S. Nelson
Assistant Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 305
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-5011
nelsones@law.sc.edu
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Professor Nelson is pleased to join the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her courses consist of Contracts, Sales and Consumer Law. Prior to joining the faculty, she taught Commercial Law and Texas Consumer Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, TX.
Professor Nelson graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she served as a teaching assistant and tutor for law school classes. After graduating from Harvard, she practiced employee benefits in the Houston office of Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP. During her time at the firm, Professor Nelson was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center where she taught Taxation of Compensation. During the Fall 2004 semester, she was a visiting assistant professor at the Law Center where she taught Contracts and Texas Consumer Law.
Professor Nelson's scholarly interests include education law and policy, specifically the intersection of consumer law and education issues. Her recent articles concerning affirmative action in higher education and the constitutionality of race-conscious student assignment plans have appeared as lead articles in the Journal of College of University Law, a peer-reviewed journal at Notre Dame, and the Denver Law Review. Her current work examines issues related to student consumer debt.
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