Bridwell honored as one of nation's top lawyers
JUNE 30, 2009 - Charleston School of Law Professor R. Randall Bridwell was honored in late April as one of 
the nation's most distinguished lawyers by Best Lawyers, a major lawyer-rating directory.
"Congratulations on being selected by your peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers," Steven Naifeh, president and founder of Best Lawyers, wrote recently. "Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2.5 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country."
Bridwell, a recognized authority in maritime law, teaches legal history and Admiralty and International Ocean Carriage. He also is developing an admiralty program at the Charleston School of Law.
Prior to joining the school in 2004, Bridwell served as the Strom Thurmond Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina, where he taught from 1971 to 2004. Throughout his distinguished career, he also has served as a visiting professor at Indiana University School of Law and was a member of the senior common room at Worcester College at Oxford University.
Bridwell holds a master's degree in law from Harvard University, a law degree from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor's degree from Midwestern University. He's won numerous academic honors, including serving as port director for the South Eastern Admiralty Law Institute and being named to the Best Lawyers in America for maritime law.
Bridwell has published several books, including The Constitution and the Common Law: The Decline of the Doctrines of Separation of Power and Federalism (1977, coauthored with Ralph U. Whitten), Abandoned: The Odyssey of the American Middle Class Since World War II (1991, with William Quirk), and The Power: Government by Consent and Majority Rule in America (1999). He has written more than a dozen key law review articles and presented at countless symposia.
To learn more about Professor Bridwell, visit his online profile here.
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- More information: Andy Brack, 843.670.3996.