Curtis Bridgeman

James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor

Florida State University
College of Law
B.K. Roberts Hall, Room 213
Phone: (850) 644-6075
Fax: (850) 644-5487
cbridgem@law.fsu.edu

Education
J.D., Vanderbilt University, 2003
Ph.D. (Philosophy), Vanderbilt University, 2001
M.A., Vanderbilt University, 2001
B.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1996

Professor Bridgeman's scholarship explores the structure and philosophy of contracts, commercial and bankruptcy law. Prior to entering law teaching he clerked in Nashville, Tennessee for the Honorable Gilbert Merritt of the Sixth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals.

He won numerous awards in law school, including the Bennett Douglas Bell Memorial Award, the only student award voted by the entire faculty at Vanderbilt Law School, and the Myron Penn Laughlin Recent Development Award for his Student Note, "Corrective Justice in Contract Law: Is There a Case for Punitive Damages?," 56 Vanderbilt Law Review 237 (2003). He also served as an Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review.