RALEIGH — Professor Scott C. Pryor, who joined Campbell Law School in 2015, has retired after serving the law school for nearly 10 years, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Having more than 15 years of commercial law practice, he taught Bankruptcy, Contracts I and Sales and Leases courses at Campbell Law.
In November, members of the Red Letter Bible Study gave Pryor a fitting send off with a poem written specifically for him and a leaf, a page out of an original 1611 King James Bible, along with a cake to celebrate his retirement. He also received a plaque from the Dean at the annual Faculty/Staff Holiday Lunch in December thanking him for his service.
Vice Dean Raven Byrne ’06 said, “We will miss you Professor Pryor! Thank you for all you’ve done for the Campbell Law community. May God bless you abundantly in this next season of life.”
While at Campbell, Pryor had a chapter published in the book “Christianity and Private Law,” which explores the relationship between Christian legal theory and topics of private law.
In 2019, he spent five months in India studying the implementation of the new Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, after receiving his second Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award from The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Prior to Campbell Law, Pryor served on the faculty at Regent University School of Law beginning in August 1998. He was previously a visiting professor at Campbell Law (2010-11), as well as a resident scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute in Washington, D.C. (2013), a Fulbright Scholar at the National Law University in Jodhpur, India (2009), and a visiting professor at Handong International Law School in Pohang, South Korea (2006). He was also the director of Regent’s Summer Program in International Human Rights in Strasbourg, France (2005 and 2008).
Pryor’s published scholarship focuses on the details, history, and moral-political justification for the laws of the courses he teaches.
He also maintains Pryor Thoughts, an online blog on law, culture, and tradition. Pryor holds a B.A. from Dordt College and an M.A. from Reformed Theological Seminary. He earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin College of Law.
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