New Faculty Books
Bernadette Atuahene
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
Little, Brown and Company Publishing (2025)
Jonathan Barnett
The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest and the Undoing of Intellectual Property
Oxford University Press (2024)
Ed McCaffery (with David Gamage)
The Income Tax Collapse: ‘Buy, Borrow, Die’ and Beyond
Oxford University Press (2025)
Select Recent Faculty Law Journal Publications
Jordan Barry and D. Daniel Sokol
“Data Valuation and Law”
Southern California Law Review (2024)
Rebecca Brown and Lee Epstein (with Mitu Gulati)
“Guns, Judges and Trump”
Duke Law Journal – Online (2024)
Jonathan Choi
“Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Minnesota Law Review (2024)
Mugambi Jouet
“Humanity, Race, and Indigeneity in Criminal Sentencing”
New York University Review of Law & Social Change (Forthcoming)
Ariel Jurow Kleiman (with Shayak Sarkar and Emily Satterthwaite)
“Taxing Nannies”
Iowa Law Review (2024)
Thomas D. Lyon (with Zsofia A. Szojka and Suvimal Yashraj)
“Automated Question Type Coding of Forensic Interviews and Trial Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases”
Law and Human Behavior (Forthcoming)
Edward McCaffery (with Darryll K. Jones)
“The Curiouser and Curiouser Case of Carried Interests”
Arizona Law Review (2024)
Douglas Melamed
“An Antitrust Exemption for Workers: And Why Worker Bargaining Power Benefits Consumers, Too”
Antitrust Law Journal, ABA (2024)
Jeesoo Nam
“Luck Egalitarian Redistribution: What Should We Do About Addiction?”
Tax Law Review (Forthcoming)
Marcela Prieto
“War and Coercion”
Southern California Law Review (2024)
Michael Simkovic
“Natural Person Shareholder Voting”
Cornell Law Review (2024)
Angela Zhang
“The Promise and Perils of China’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence”
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (Forthcoming)
Adam Zimmerman (with Abbe R. Gluck and Elizabeth Chamblee Burch)
“Against Bankruptcy: Public Litigation Values Versus the Endless Quest for Global Peace in Mass Litigation”
Yale Law Journal Forum (2024)
To view the full list of articles, awards and presentations, visit: Faculty Scholarship.
Awards & Notes
Dean Franita Tolson was named the recipient of the John M. Langston Bar Association Leadership Award, which will be presented at the association’s 48th Annual Gala in February. The Langston Bar Association is the largest and most longstanding bar association of African American attorneys in California. The award recognizes Dean Tolson’s historic accomplishments in legal education, commitment to the community, and advocacy of justice. In addition, Dean Tolson was also recently recognized as being among the country’s most-cited law deans.
Recent USC Gould grad Christopher LoCascio (JD 2023) received the 2023-2024 Law Review Award from Scribes — The American Society of Legal Writers. His award-winning paper, titled “The Healthcure System: A Regional Accountable Care Model to Remedy Healthcare’s Pricing Problem,” was published in the Southern California Law Review.
Prof. Jessica Clarke was recently listed among the most cited scholars in the field of labor and employment law, with 340 citations from 2019-2023.
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