Nathan M. Crystal, author and teacher of contract law and professional responsibility, will present the Bowen School of Law’s Fendler Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Herschel H. Friday Courtroom at the UALR Law School at 1202 McMath Ave. A reception will follow in the Dean’s Gallery.

Crystal has taught for 30 years at the University of South Carolina. Following his graduation from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he earned a J.D. degree from Emory where he was the editor-in-chief of the law review. Crystal also earned an LLM from Harvard where he was a teaching fellow and director of the Legal Methods Program. Currently he is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Charleston School of Law.

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. Crystal also publishes frequently in major law reviews including Fordham; “Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics;” Illinois; Kansas; Kentucky; “Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy;” “New York University Annual Survey of American Law;” Mercer; South Carolina; Wake Forest; and Washington.