Gregory C. Keating is William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy at the USC Gould School of Law; his appointment is joint with the USC Department of Philosophy. He joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1996. He teaches torts, professional responsibility, and seminars on topics in private law and legal philosophy.

Keating graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, earned an MA and PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he practiced law in Massachusetts for five years before joining USC Gould. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard and Yale Law Schools, at the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel, and at the law faculty of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Law School in Santiago, Chile.

Keating is the author of Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts (Oxford, 2022).  Reasonableness and Risk was awarded 2024 Civil Justice Scholarship Award, awarded annually by the National Civil Justice Institute to work that supports the American Civil Justice system.

He is also an editor of Keeton et al, Tort and Accident Law (5^th edition forthcoming 2023). He writes on torts, professional responsibility and legal theory. He has published articles on the morality of reasonable risk imposition and the law of negligence more generally; on the history of and moral justification for strict liability in tort; on why justice requires that we take inefficiently great precaution against significant risks of death and devastating injury; and on issues of professional responsibility, with particular attention to the problems that confront practicing lawyers. Some of his recent articles and book chapters are: Pouring Old Wine into New Skins: The Case of Self-Driving Cars forthcoming in Ellen Bublick & John Goldberg, eds. A Research Agenda for Torts (forthcoming, 2025); Is the Third Restatement of Design Defect a Defective Product? 52 Southwestern Law Review 399 (2024); Putting “Duty” Back on Track, 16 Journal of Tort Law 301 (2023); Irreparable Injury and the Limitations of the Law of Torts, John Oberdiek & Paul Miller, (eds.) Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume II (2023); Enterprise Liability, Martin Petrin & Christian Witting, eds. Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (forthcoming, 2023); Form and Function in Tort Theory, 15 Journal of Tort Law, 1 (2022); Form and Substance in the “Private” Law of Torts, 14 Journal of Tort Law 45 (2021); Corrective Justice: Sovereign or Subordinate?, Henry Smith et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, 37-52 (2020); Principles of Risk Imposition and the Priority of Avoiding Harm, 36 Revus J. for Const. Theory & Phil. of Law 7 (2018); and Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Only Game in Town?, 91 Southern California L. Rev. 195 (2018).

A former teaching fellow at Harvard and Princeton universities, Keating served as an officer of the Section on Jurisprudence of the American Association of Law Schools. He also has consulted with the County of Los Angeles on issues of professional responsibility and conflicts of interest.