Constance A. Anastopoulo
Professor of Law
Articles
Risky Business: What Every S.C. Lawyer Should Know about the Cloud, January 2025, S.C. Lawyer magazine.
It's Elementary. Let's Play Rock, Paper, Scissors: Civil Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts During First-Year Law School Orientation, (with Aleatra P. Alexander, William M Janssen, & Jean Steadman), 54 MEMPHIS L. REV. 513, book 3, (2024).
The Enforceability of Step-down Provisions in Automobile Insurance Policies, (with Thomas P. Gressette Jr.), 48 MITCHELL HAMLINE L. REV. 539 (2022).
Step-down or Step-on? When Is Your Coverage Not Really Your Coverage?, 33 S.C. LAW. 32 (2022).
What's the Risk? What Passengers in Rental Cars in South Carolina Should Know, (with Melissa McKenzie), 31 S.C. LAW. 45 (2020).
A New Twist on Remedies: Judicial Assignment of Bad Faith Claims, 50 Ind. L. Rev., 727, 757 (2017).
Race and Gender on the Bench: How Best to Achieve Diversity in Judicial Selection, (with Daniel J. Crooks, III), NW. J. L. Soc. Pol'y. Vol. 8 Iss. 2 (2013).
Taking No Prisoners: Captive Insurance as an Alternative to Traditional or Commercial Insurance, 8 OHIO ST. ENTREPREN. BUS. L.J. 209 [Hein] (2013).
Where's the Outrage? "Outrageous" Conduct in Analyzing the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Wake of Snyder v. Phelps, (with Daniel J. Crooks, III), 19 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 667 (2013).
Bad Faith: Building a House of Straw, Sticks, or Bricks, 42 U. MEM. L. REV. 687 (2012). [Hein].
Bad Faith in South Carolina Insurance Contracts - From Tyger River Pine Co. v. Maryland Cas. Co. to Mitchell v. Fortis Ins. Co., 22 S.C. LAW. 18 (2010). [Hein].
Bad Faith in North Carolina Insurance Contracts: A Growing Part of Insurance Practice, 15 N.C. ST. B.J. 23 (2010). [Hein].
Teaching Privacy in the Age of Octomom: Enhancing Case/Socratic Method with a Structured Class Discussion, (with Thomas P. Gressette, Jr.), 44 VAL. U. L. REV. 391 (2010).
Books
The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina, 8th edition, (with Janice Holmes, et al.) Columbia, SC: South Carolina Bar, (2024).
Editor, Guide to South Carolina Liability and Property Insurance Law, (with Janice Holmes). Columbia, SC: South Carolina Bar, (2019).
South Carolina Family Court Bench Book for South Carolina Family Court Judges (with Hon. Wayne Creech, 9th Cir. Family Court). (2024).
Presentations
Jan. 2025. Presenter. Balancing Efficiency with Legal Ethics: A Guide for Attorneys. South Carolina CLE.
October 2024. Presenter. Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage & Ethics, in conjunction with the publication of her book, Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina, 8th edition (2024) (with Janice Holmes, Gwendolyn Fuller McGriff, Elizabeth Scott Moise, and Vernon R. Sumwalt, Jr.).
June 2023. Presenter. Insurance Law: UM, UIM, Stacking, & Recent Cases, South Carolina Judicial CLE.
Oct. 2022. Presenter. Insurance Law: UM, UIM, Stacking, & Recent Cases, South Carolina Judicial Conference.
Feb. 2022. Presenter. Understanding UM and UIM in Insurance Law, CLE.
July 2021. Presenter. Trends in Insurance Law, American Association for Justice Annual Conference.
Feb. 2020. Presenter. Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law-Made Simple: Ethics in UM/UIM Cases, National Business Institute.
Oct. 2014. Panelist. Anatomy of a Lawsuit: Why Doctors Get Sued, Charleston County Medical Society and the Charleston County Bar Association joint Medical/Legal CLE.
Sept. 2014. Presenter. Evidence 101: The Do's and Don'ts of Evidence Law, South Carolina Solicitors' Association Annual Conference.
Feb. 2014. Presenter. Auto Injury Litigation from Start to Finish.
Feb. 2013. Presenter. How Judicial Selection Impacts the Criminal Justice System, public forum, Florence/Darlington Technical College.
Nov. 2012. Presenter. Overcoming Complex Challenges in UM/UIM Law.
Aug. 2012. Prepared materials. Legal Issues Facing Physicians; Medical Ethics: Is Yours an Ethical Medical Practice?
Aug. 2012. Organizer & Moderator. The State of the Judiciary: From Research to Reality, Forum held at conclusion of League of Women Voters of South Carolina's two-year study of judicial selection process in South Carolina. University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C.
Feb. 2012. Moderator. Fitness to Practice--What It Means for Attorneys and the Judicial System, Law and Society Series; The Role of Government.
Oct. 2011. Presenter. Elements of UM/UIM Coverage and Ethics Presenter, Ethical Traps to Avoid, Advanced Uninsured Motorist/Underinsured Motorist Law Seminar.
Dec. 2011. Presenter. Insurance Law--Ethical Considerations.
May 2011. Moderator. Judicial Selection in South Carolina, Coastal Carolina University.
Feb. 2011 Presenter. Insurance Law from A to Z - Insurance Law Ethics.
Feb. 2011. Presenter. Insurance Law from A to Z - Handling Disputes: Common Issues, Tips, and Techniques.
Feb. 2011. Presenter. Bad Faith in North Carolina Insurance Contracts, University of North Carolina School of Law Festival of Legal Learning.
Jan. 2011. Moderator. How the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affects the Practice of Law, Federal Courts Law Review of the Charleston School of Law Symposium on Healthcare Law in the Federal Courts, Charleston, S.C.
Dec. 2010. Panelist/Presenter. Insurance Law Update, Legislative Changes and Appellate Decisions in Insurance Law in South Carolina. CLE.
Nov. 2010. Presenter. Bad Faith in South Carolina, 2010 Tort Law Update, CLE, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C.
Nov. 2010. Panelist/Presenter. The Impact of the Judicial Process on Citizens; Why Does Judicial Diversity and Independence Matter, Francis Marion University.
Oct. 2010. Organizer/Moderator. Ensuring Judicial Independence and Diversity in South Carolina, S.C. League of Women Voters and Charleston School of Law Forum.
Oct. 2010. Presenter. Bad Faith Claims in Insurance Contracts and Ethics Presenter, Legal Ethics in Insurance Practice, Advanced Uninsured Motorist/Underinsured Motorist Law Seminar.
Feb. 2010. Presenter. Comparative Study of Bad Faith Litigation in Insurance Contracts and Issues in South Carolina and North Carolina, University of North Carolina School of Law Festival of Legal Learning.
Oct. 2009. Presenter. Bad Faith Claims in Insurance Contracts and Legal Ethics in Insurance Practice, Advanced Uninsured Motorist/Underinsured Motorist Law Seminar.
April 2009. Panelist/Moderator. State Constitutional Reform in the New South.
Sept. 2008. Organizer/Moderator. Judicial Selection in South Carolina -- Ensuring Quality, Diversity, and Independence, Forum.
April 2006. Organizer/Moderator. South Carolina Judicial Selection Forum.
Editorials & Commentary
Jan. 2025. Quoted in, UCLA newspaper, The Daily Bruin, Ensuring Insurance: Homeowners Insurance Coverage Reassessed Amid LA Wildfires.
Jan.2009. Can't We Just Fight Fair? SKIRT Magazine.
May 2008. Remembrances on Mother's Day, The Post & Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Other
Bad Faith: Building a House of Straw, Sticks, or Bricks, 42 U. MEM. L. REV. 687 (2012). Cited in United States ex rel. Nicholson v. MedCom Carolinas, Inc., 42 F.4th 185 (4th Cir. 2022).
A New Twist on Remedies: Judicial Assignment of Bad Faith Claims, 50 Ind. L. Rev., 727, 757 (2017). Cited in Reeves v. S.C. Mun. Ins. & Risk Fin. Fund, 434 S.C. 18, 862 S.E.2d 248 (2021)
Amicus Curiae Brief, League of Women Voters of South Carolina, Segars-Andrews v. Judicial Merit Selection Commission, 691 S.E.2d 453, 387 S.C. 109 (2010).
