Center for Business and Transactional Law

Center for Business and Transactional Law

FACULTY

Professor Jean Steadman is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Business and Transactional Law at Charleston School of Law. She teaches Contracts I and II, Sales, Business Associations, Drafting Preliminary Agreements, Litigating a Transaction, and Practical International Business Transactions.

Charleston School of Law boasts a distinguished business law faculty with extensive practical experience, scholarship, and publications.

The faculty expertise extends to contract law, UCC law, international private law, including the CISG and UNIDROIT Principles, business law, corporate governance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, complex business transactions, international business transactions, and other business subjects.

Charleston School of Law faculty is dedicated to both their fields of study and to teaching the next generation of transactional law lawyers. The faculty has an open-door policy and is often found having informal discussions on transactional law topics outside of class.

Charleston School of Law is also dedicated to providing its students with challenging and new opportunities through electives taught by talented adjunct faculty, including alumni, local practicing lawyers, and local and state corporate in-house counsel.

The Center for Business and Transactional Law supports the work of the Dean of Academic Affairs and the Curriculum Committee by offering drafting electives and practical skills courses focusing on contract negotiations.

The Center for Business and Transactional Law will host intramural transactional law competitions, academic conferences, and promote the faculty’s legal scholarship as it continues to expand.

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385 Meeting Street
Charleston, S.C. 29403
Phone: (843) 377-2143
Mon – Fri 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

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