Biography
Curtis Bridgeman is a Professor of Law and Roderick and Carol Wendt Chair in Business Law. He served as the Dean at the College of Law from 2013-2020 and teaches Contracts to first-year law students.
After spending two years in the US Army, Dean Bridgeman attended Vanderbilt University, where he earned both a doctorate in philosophy and his JD. Following graduation, Bridgeman clerked for Judge Gilbert Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Nashville, Tenn. In 2004, Bridgeman joined the faculty at Florida State University School of Law, where he received the University Graduate Teaching Award in 2009 and where law students selected him three times as “Professor of the Year.” From 2011-13, he was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at FSU.
A leading scholar in the field of contracts and commercial law, Bridgeman has published numerous journal articles in leading law reviews, and he's been an invited speaker at law schools around the globe.