Professor Marcantel graduated from the College of Charleston, cum laude, with B.A.s in political science and history. Thereafter, Professor Marcantel graduated, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, Professor Marcantel interned for the Honorable Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, and served as a research editor on the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal. After law school, Professor Marcantel clerked for the Honorable William L. Howard Sr., South Carolina Court of Appeals Judge. Thereafter, he was an associate attorney at Finkel & Altman, LLC, where he was exclusive statewide local counsel for both a major, national financial institution and an international software company. In 2006, Professor Marcantel entered academia. Professor Marcantel has served as an Associate Dean at the Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School of Law, an Assistant Editor for the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, an adjunct professor of political science at the College of Charleston, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Ethics Advisory Committee, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Professional Responsibility Committee, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Resolution of Fee Disputes Board, and an elected member of the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates. Professor Marcantel is currently a Certified Volunteer Arbitrator for the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office. Professor Marcantel's scholarship interests include Contracts, Commercial Law, and Business Associations. Professor Marcantel is an avid backpacker.
Articles
Abolishing Implied Private Rights of Action Pursuant to Federal Statutes, Notre Dame Journal of Legislation (2013)
The doctrine of implied rights of action has generated a wealth of scholarship in two...
The Corporation as a "Real" Constitutional Person, UC Davis Business Law Journal (2011)
For two centuries now, jurists and corporate scholars have struggled with creating a singular, global...
Because Judges are not Angels Either: Limiting Judicial Discretion by Introducing Objectivity into Piercing Doctrine, Kansas Law Review (2011)
Ordinarily, individual shareholders are immune from liability arising from a corporation’s activities through the doctrine...
The Crumbled Difference Between Legal and Illegal Arbitration Awards: Hall Street Associates and the Waning Public Policy Exception, Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. (2009)
As a matter of general contract law, illegal contracts are unenforceable in court pursuant to...