Visiting Professor
Constance A. Anastopoulo is a returning Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where she teaches Tort Law and Professional Responsibility. Her scholarship focuses on torts and insurance law, with particular expertise in insurance bad faith litigation. She is also a Professor of Law at Charleston School of Law.
Professor Anastopoulo recently served as President of Charleston School of Law during the institution's transition from a for-profit law school to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As the inaugural president under its new nonprofit structure, she led the development of the law school's governance framework, institutional policies, and strategic priorities while overseeing a comprehensive restructuring of its financial operations. Her leadership guided the school through a significant organizational transformation and established a foundation for long-term institutional success.
Prior to her academic career, Professor Anastopoulo practiced law with Poulin Willey Anastopoulo Law Firm, LLC, where she concentrated on insurance litigation and directed the firm's Appellate Practice Division. She served as lead counsel in Gaskins v. Southern Farm Bureau, a landmark South Carolina insurance case, represented plaintiffs as class counsel in In re: OxyContin, and authored the nationally recognized amicus curiae brief on behalf of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina in Segars-Andrews v. Judicial Merit Selection Commission.
Professor Anastopoulo received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as Director of the Women's Prison Project, and was awarded a prestigious Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation grant to continue her work advocating for incarcerated women.
Her scholarship has appeared in the Ohio State Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, the Indiana Law Review, the University of Memphis Law Review, the Mitchell Hamline Law Review, and other leading publications. She has also authored several chapters on South Carolina insurance law for the South Carolina Bar Publications Division.
In 2018, Professor Anastopoulo was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of South Carolina, becoming the first woman nominated by a major political party to seek that office in the state's history.