About the authors
About the authors
Charles L. Knapp is the Joseph W. Cotchett Distinguished Professor of
Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco.
He joined the Hastings Faculty in 1998, coming to San Francisco from New York
University School of Law, where he had been the first Max E. Greenberg Professor
of Contract Law. Professor Knapp joined the N.Y.U. Law School faculty in 1964,
and served as its Associate Dean from 1977-1982. He has also taught at the University
of Arizona School of Law and Harvard Law School. He holds a B.A. degree from
Denison University, a J.D. from N.Y.U., and studied at the University of Sydney
on a Rotary International Fellowship. Before embarking on his teaching career
at N.Y.U., he was an associate attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison, in New York City. In addition to his work on Problems in Contract
Law and his published articles on contract law and other topics, Professor
Knapp was the orignal editor-in-chief of Commercial Damages (Matthew
Bender 1986) and of its companion publication, Commercial Damages Reporter.
His most recent article is Rescuing Reliance: The Perils of Promissory Estoppel,
49 Hastings L.J. 1191 (1998).
Nathan Crystal is the Class of 1969 Professor of Contract Law and Professional
Responsibility at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he has
taught for 27 years. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton
School), Emory Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the law review),
and Harvard Law School. In addition to his work in contract law, Professor Crystal
has also published a number of articles and three books on Professional Responsibility:
Professional Responsibility—Problems of Practice and the Profession (Aspen,
2d ed. 2000), An Introduction to Professional Responsibility (Aspen
1998), and Annotated South Carolina Rules Of Professional Conduct (with Robert Wilcox). In addition to his books, Professor Crystal has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including the Fordham Law Journal, Georgia Law Review (forthcoming), Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Illinois Law Review (forthcoming), Kansas Law Review, Kentucky Law Journal, Mercer Law Review, Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy, NYU Annual Survey of American Law, South Carolina Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, and Washington Law Review. He lectures frequently on matters of professional ethics to national, regional, and local organizations, including the American Bar Association and the United States Justice Department. Professor Crystal served as associate dean of the Law School from 1987-1992 and director of its Center on the Legal Profession from 1991-1999. He has held visiting appointments and lectureships at Florida State, Hastings, Indiana (Indianapolis), and Suffolk.
Harry G. Prince is a member of the faculty at the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco where he has taught since 1985.
He is currently on leave while serving as the Deputy Director of the Association
of American Law Schools. He served as the Associate Academic Dean of Hastings
College of the Law from 1991 to 93 and was Director of the CLEO (Council on
Legal Education Opportunity) Western Region Summer Institute in 1993. In addition
to teaching at Hastings, Professor Prince has also taught at George Washington
University, the University of Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley,
and Golden Gate University. During the 2000-01 school year, he will teach contract
law at George Washington University. Professor Prince graduated from Temple
University in 1977 and received his J.D. from New York University in 1980. He
served as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Lee R. West before beginning
practice as an attorney with the U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser.
He teaches and has published writings on various aspects of contract law and
international law. Professor Prince served on the Membership Review Committee
of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) from 1995 through 1997 and
currently serves on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) contract law drafting
committee for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.