Associate Professor & Director of the Center for Business and Transactional Law
Jean Steadman
Associate Professor & Director of the Center for Business and Transactional Law
All Publications
Articles
Are Body Brokers Just the Modern Body Burkers? Tracing the Acquisition and Sale of Donated Bodies and the Lack of Effective Regulation, Creighton Law Review, forthcoming.
Charleston Law Hosts Transactional Law Derby, South Carolina Lawyer's Weekly, December 5, 2024.
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, Constance A. Anastopoulo & William M. Janssen), 54 MEMPHIS L. REV. 513, book 3, (2024).
When Binding Doesn't Really Mean Binding: The Early Decision College Application, 48 MITCHELL HAMLINE L. REV. 1048 (2022).
Anecdotes from A Collaborative Classroom: Teaching the Intersection of Litigation and Transactional Law (with Jay Paskan), 99 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. Online 1.
Books
Civil Code. Fourth Book. Obligations: Title II: Contracts in General, a Comparative Translation. Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2021.
Common Law Contract Law: A Practical Guide for the Civil Law Lawyer: guida pratica alla disciplina dei contratti nell'ambito del sistema di common law, prassi contrattualistica, checklist delle principali tipologie contrattualie (with Steven Sprague). Wolters Kluwer (2015).
Drafting Legal Documents in Plain English: guida pratica alla redazione di documenti legali in inglese. Milan, Italy: A. Giuffre (2013).
Conferences & Presentations
July 2025. Discussion panelist and mentor. How to be Friendly without being Friends with Your Students, and mentor sessions, CV reviews, job talk reviews, and mock interviews. Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference, Amelia Island, FL.
June 2025. Presenter. Key Elements of a Sale/Purchase of Goods Contract, National Business Institute (NBI) CLE program, Contracts for the Sale of Goods.
May 2025. Co-presenter. Experiential Transactional Opportunities with Doctrinal Classes and Creating Practical Skills Possibilities for Law Students, Ninth Biennial conference on the Teaching of Transactional Law and Skills, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia.
May 2025. Panelist. Access to Transactional Justice: Increasing Opportunities for Transactional Learning in Non-Clinical Courses, 21st Annual Transactional Clinical Conference, Driving Change - Transactional Clinics as Agents of Transformation. AALs International Clinical Education Committee, Detroit, MI.
May 2025. Presenter. The Contract Strategist's Guide to Complex Deal Drafting and Negotiations: Preserving the Parties' Relationship in the Event of a Breach, National Business Institute (NBI), CLE program.
Forthcoming, 2025. Judge. ABA Representation in Mediation Competition, hosted by Loyola New Orleans College of Law.
July 2023. Presenter. Getting Creative & Collaborative to Maximize Experiential Learning Opportunities. SEALS, National Conference.
Dec. 2023. Presenter. What are Contractual Representations & Warranties? National Business Institute (NBI), CLE Program.