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About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 115-year history and reputation for academic excellence. We are located on the beautiful 228-acre USC University Park Campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles.
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USC Gould helps prepare you for a stellar legal career. You can pursue a JD degree, one of our numerous graduate and international offerings, or an online degree or certificate.
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We work closely with students, graduates and employers to support successful career goals and outcomes. Our overall placement rate is consistently strong, with 94 percent of our JD class employed within 10 months after graduation.
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Faculty
Our faculty is distinguished for its scholarship, as well as for its commitment to teaching. Our 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio creates an intimate and collegial learning environment.
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Alumni and Giving
The global Trojan network of more than 10,000 law alumni and donors include recognized leaders in numerous fields who are deeply committed to supporting student and law school success.

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Suzanne Garner
Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: Thursday, February 15, 2018
Email: sgarner@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Suzanne Garner practices, teaches and consults in the field of international trade and investment law, with more than a decade of experience in free trade negotiations, dispute resolution, and global regulatory compliance.
Garner served under the current and former presidential administrations as an associate general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she represented the United States in regional and multilateral trade negotiations and in disputes before the WTO. Garner was lead counsel for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and several notable WTO cases (US—Clove Cigarettes (defense), Argentina—Financial Services (third party)). Garner also covered trade with Canada (NAFTA, softwood lumber), the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), and U.S. government third-party participation in several foreign trade remedy investigations (AD/CVD).
Before joining USTR, Garner handled investor-state and international commercial arbitrations at Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C., where she also represented corporate clients in FCPA and AD/CVD investigations.
Garner teaches LLM students in the Legal Writing Program. She has presented scholarly work at the University of Copenhagen iCourts (2017) and Harvard University (2004), and consults periodically for the International Investment Agreements Section of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Her research interests include the resolution of trade disputes involving non-tariff barriers and the application of nondiscrimination provisions in the realm of trade in services.
Garner earned her JD at Boston College Law School (2006) and her MA and BA in philosophy of religion at University of California, Santa Barbara (2000 and 1997). She is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Vanity Fair
April 16, 2018
Re: Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr was quoted about President Donald Trump's attempts to stop the FBI from reviewing documents taken from his personal lawyer during a raid. “I’m not aware of a client ever being able to conduct the first review of whether a lawyer’s files are privileged. And for an obvious reason: If the files sought involve an alleged crime/fraud, the client will say that those e-mails are privileged,” Kerr said. “Trump in effect wants the warrant to be executed like a subpoena to him personally, in which he gets to decide what the government sees. But that’s not how it’s done: the point of using a search warrant is to block that.”
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Robert K. Rasmussen
January, 2018
"Puerto Rico and the Netherworld of Sovereign Debt Restructuring," Workshop, Duke Law School, Durham, NC.
Edward Kleinbard
January, 2018
"The Right Tax at the Right Time," Florida Tax Review 21 (2017): 208.
Edward Kleinbard
January, 2018
“The Perversion of the Tax Policy Process,” Keynote Address at the USC Tax Institute, Los Angeles, CA.