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Dean Franita Tolson joins panel on democracy and the judiciary

Dean Franita Tolson joins panel on democracy and the judiciary

Event cohosted by USC Gould touched on judicial history and current events.

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Trailblazers in Empirical Law
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Trailblazers in Empirical Law

An intrepid pair of USC Gould constitutional scholars are generating deep insights into patterns of jurisprudence

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Supreme Court to decide scope of federal agency power
United States Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court to decide scope of federal agency power

The court has signaled that it is ready reject a precedent known as “Chevron deference.” USC experts – including Gould Professor Clare Pastore – discuss how that could reshape the ways environmental, health and consumer protection policies are made and enforced, as well as impact health and safety.

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Recent Research & Scholarship

  • Rebecca Brown
    “Is the US Supreme Court a reliable backstop for an overreaching US president? Maybe, but is an overreaching (partisan) court worse?” (with Lee Epstein), 53 Presidential Studies Quarterly 234 (2023).
    June 1, 2023
  • Felipe Jiménez

    Review of Paolo Sandro, The Making of Constitutional Democracy, American Journal of Jurisprudence.

    August 26, 2022
  • Marcela Prieto

    "Between Predictability and Perplexity," International Journal of Constitutional Law.

    July 8, 2022
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