Public Interest Law
Explore the breadth and depth of the USC Gould School of Law’s faculty expertise, research impact, thought leadership, and academic program offerings in public interest law.
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Faculty Research Minute Video: Bernadette Atuahene
Watch: Award-winning property law scholar, Professor Atuahene, describes her work uncovering housing injustice in Detroit
Housing Law and Policy Clinic and partners win with federal court ruling that preserves key tenant protections
Judge’s ruling preserves key housing laws as HLPC, partners continue defending the city’s tenant protections on appeal
Alumni return to campus for 2025 Public Interest Career Fair
Annual event brought more than 40 organizations together, including private public interest law firms and agencies from throughout California and both coasts
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Faculty
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Sidney M. and Audrey M. Irmas Endowed Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Immigration Clinic
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Vice Dean for Academic Research and Intellectual Life, and Maurice Jones, Jr. – Class of 1925 Professor of Law
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Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Faculty in the News
Recent Research & Scholarship
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“The Antisemitism Question,” Accelerator Workshop on Racio-Religious Violence and Religious Racism, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA.
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"Religion, Race and Cultural Separatism in American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York," Law and Society Association Global Meeting, ISCTE Institute, University of Lisbon
September 7, 2022 -
“Adversarial Prosecution – An Experimental Inquiry,” American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
July 8, 2022
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