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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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Margaret Kean
USC Gould School of Law
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Assistant Dean of Development
Email: mkean@law.usc.eduTelephone: (213) 821-6342
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 4, 2021
As assistant dean of development, Margaret Anne Kean leads the major gift and annual giving efforts of the school to grow and sustain philanthropic support and engagement among USC Gould School of Law alumni and friends.
Kean has over 21 years of fundraising and nonprofit management experience, most recently as executive director of advancement at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Prior to joining USC in 2013, she held a variety of leadership development roles in education and health services, including chief development officer for an independent school, president of the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation, executive director of Cancer Support Community Pasadena and associate director at Pomona College. Kean previously worked in non-profit and corporate public relations for 17 years, including service at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena and Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation. A native of California, Kean holds a BA in British/American Literature from Scripps College in Claremont and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Antioch University/Los Angeles.
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.
