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About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 120-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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Academics
Learn about our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and specialized areas.
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Admissions
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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Students
Participate in an unparalleled learning experience with diversity of people and thought. Get involved in the law school community and participate in activities that enhance your studies.
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Careers
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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Laura Riley
USC Gould School of Law
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- CENTER FOR LAW AND PHILOSOPHY (CLP)
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- CENTER FOR LAW, HISTORY AND CULTURE (CLHC)
- CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (CTLB)
- INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM INSTITUTE (IRI)
- PACIFIC CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS
- SAKS INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS
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Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills and Assistant Director of Academic Success
Email: lriley@law.usc.eduTelephone: (213) 740-1496
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: July 7, 2020
Laura Riley joined the Academic Success faculty in 2020. She also co-teaches the Veterans Legal Practicum. She was previously appointed director of experiential learning and adjunct assistant professor of law at Gould in 2018.
Riley practiced public interest law in Los Angeles for close to a decade working in the disability rights, gender justice, health, and veterans law fields. Riley has published many consumer and legal articles, a Rutter Guide chapter on disability rights discrimination, a textbook chapter on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum disorders, and two amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court. She continues to volunteer in nonprofit organizations in the Los Angeles area. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, Riley earned her JD from USC Gould School of Law, where she was the president of the Public Interest Law Foundation and co-editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Public Interest Journal.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Joplin Globe
June 13, 2021
Re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich wrote an op-ed about how she misses the Donald Trump — not as a president, but as a distraction. "The Trump show is over. Any day now, he’ll be hacking hair dye on late-night TV," she wrote. "In the meantime, the rest of us, deprived of our daily distraction, are left to face the reality of a new world we don’t quite understand, and of the old problems we never did solve." The op-ed also appeared in Standard-Speaker, ThyBlackMan, and the Daily Herald.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Robert K. Rasmussen
April, 2021
"COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure," Yale Law Journal Forum.
Marcela Prieto
April, 2021
Marcela Prieto participated on a panel discussion on “Constitutionalism in Latin America,” Constitutionalism and the Free Society Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
Thomas D. Lyon
April, 2021
“Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents' reluctance,” (with Agnieszka Nogalska, Hayden M. Henderson & Scarlet Cho) (in press). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
