Next week I will be speaking in Oslo on #SpaceSustainability at the IV Seminar Series on International Space Law, ‘International Space Law in Transformation: Critical Perspectives at the Intersections of International Law. https://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/english/research/events/2026/Seminar-series-o...
On Friday, May 8, 2026 at 1:00 PMFrancesca Giannoni-Crystal will present the program Cross-Border Ethics: Navigating Conflicting Rules Across Jurisdictions. This program addresses how to determine the applicable ethical rules when a lawyer’s conduct implicates more than one jurisdiction, focus...
Francesca GCrystal is glad to share that her article Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Data Processing in Space and the Application of the GDPR, 38 S.C. Law. 38 (Spring 2026). https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=863173&p=4&view=issueViewer has just been published by the SC lawyer J...
On April 16 at 1:00 PM EST, Francesca Giannoni_Crystal will discuss how U.S. courts approach privilege choice-of-law in cross-border and international contexts, focusing on the fragmentation among competing frameworks: lex fori, Restatement (Second) § 139, “center of gravity,” “touch base,”...
On March 18, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal spoke on a panel addressing the legal framework governing space resource utilization, together with Neha Dagley and Rossana Deplano, with Kenneth Altshuler as moderator. The program was organized by Chris Salvino of Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC. It is part...
On March 11, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will speak on a panel on attorney–client privilege and work product protection in the corporate setting. The program will discuss how privilege applies to internal investigations, regulatory scrutiny, and communications involving third parties, with a ...
On March 18, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present on a panel discussion on the legal issues surrounding space resource utilization. The panel will address emerging questions such as whether companies may own resources they extract from the Moon and how international law applies if multiple ...
On February 25, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will serve as a panelist in the CLE program “Working Remotely and Attorney–Client Privilege: Legal Ethics.” The program will explore lawyers’ confidentiality and privilege obligations when working in remote and non-traditional environments, in...
t the Colloquium on Space-Cyber Power (a project of Indiana University’s Space Governance Lab), taking place January 29–30, 2026, our co-authored paper with Prof. Charles Stotler, Cybersecurity in Space: The Attribution Advantage?, will be presented on Day 1 (January 29, 2026, 4:55–5:25 pm). T...
On December 15, 2025, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present a webinar examining the legal and ethical questions emerging from the development of lunar activities and the growing interest in space resource utilization (SRU). Date & Time: Monday, December 15, 202512:00 PM – 1:00 PM (ET)Duratio...
On December 5, 2025, Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will present “Choice of Law and Conflicts of Interest: One Misstep Can Trigger Multi-State Discipline and Liability.” We’ll discuss how lawyer misconduct can trigger overlapping risks — from discipline and malpractice to di...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will be speaking on #HumanRights in Space Settlements as part of the panel “Future Settlements and Realising Human Rights” at the University of Waikato’s virtual conference “Outer Space, New Technology and Future Space Settlement: Human Rights for the Final Frontie...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal will be presenting a program on a form of misconduct that was once dismissed as “private” but in fact profoundly affects the legal profession and the justice system: sexual and relationship scandals involving lawyers and judges. These incidents are not isolated — the...
The 2025 Edition of Nathan Crystal’s Annotated Rules of Professional Conduct has just been released. This volume (Table of Contents: https://www.scbar.org/media/fkthjeep/annotated-sc-rules-of-prof-conduct-2025-edition-table-of-contents.pdf) is an essential resource for all lawyers in South Carolin...
On February 27, 2025, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal and Nathan Crystal will speak on a program addressing the growing risks of unauthorized practice of law in an era of remote and virtual legal services. The program will examine how cross-border virtual practice can create regulatory and disciplinary r...
On February 27, 2025 at 1 EST, Nathan Crystal and Francesca GCrystal will be discussing of virtual practice for lawyers in the CLE “Unauthorized Practice of Law by Remote Attorneys: What Attorneys Should Know About Virtual Law Practice, Supervision and Risk Management.” Unauthorized practice (...
Nathan M. Crystal spoke at the 2025 #SCBarConvention on Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 2–3:30 p.m. in Columbia, SC. Together with Professors Sella-Villa and Virzi, he explored “The Legal Landscape’s Use of Generative #AI: Understanding Ethical Rules & Responsibilities.” The...
Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, The Legality of Defending Lunar Activities on the Moon, 16 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. 137 (2025). https://harvardnsj.org/2025/01/12/the-legality-of-defending-national-activities-on-the-moon/ Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Cyberattacks on Lunar Satellites (and Other Non-Earth...
On Feb 2, 2024, Nathan Crystal spoke on First Amendment rights of lawyers at the 2024 APRL Mid-Year meeting in Louisville, KY in the panel “Lawyers in the Court of Public Opinion.”...
Nathan Crystal continues to write his bimonthly column on Ethics Watch for the South Carolina Lawyer. He has published the following articles this year: Ancillary Business Ethics, 34 S. Carolina Lawyer 15 (Jan. 2023); Dual Purpose Attorney-Client Communications: Does the Privilege Apply, 34 S. Carol...
Nathan Crystal and Craig Dobson spoke at a Practicing Law Briefing attended by close to 1000 lawyers. Their topic was “A Lawyer’s Duty of Competence in a Changing Legal Environment.”...
On March 17, 2023, Nathan Crystal spoke at a program sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law honoring the “The Jurisprudence and Legacy of The Honorable Joseph F. Weis Jr.” The title of his speech was: A “Philosophy of Lawyering based on Judge Weis’s Nuanced Method ...
In OPINION 24-20 (“Teleworking from Home and the COVID-19 Pandemic”),the D.C. Court of Appeals Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law (DC UPL Committee) decided that out-of-state lawyers can practice while physically present there due to COVID19. The DC UPL Committee opined that &#...
This is an abstract of the program that I co-presented with Craig Dobson and that had more than 600 attendees from all across the country. Professionalism in Context: Examples and Approaches The program focused on development of a philosophy of lawyering, including the relationship between zeal an...
On April 10, 2019, the Regulation (EU) 2019/452 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union entered into force. It will become applicable from October 11, 2020. The Regulation was approved also...
Nathan M. Crystal spoke of attorney-client relation (The Attorney-Client Relationship: Cradle-to-Grave) at the Primerus 2018 Young Lawyers Section Conference......
Craig Dobson will be speaking of ethics issues in immigration in a webinar organized by ABA Center for Professional Development, Co-sponsored by the ABA Section of International Law......
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