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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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Michael Jenkins
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
Email: mjenkins@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 4, 2020
Michael Jenkins is a partner with the law firm of Best Best & Krieger, LLP and specializes in the practice of municipal law. He currently serves as city attorney for the cities of Goleta (since 2017), Hermosa Beach (since 1996), Rolling Hills (since 1982) and West Hollywood (since 1984) and as general counsel to the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District, the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, the Westside Cities Council of Governments and the Harbor Community Benefit Foundation.
He served as president of the City Attorneys Department of the League of California Cities (1993), co-authored the original version of the league’s Municipal Law Handbook and chaired the league’s Brown Act Committee from 1994 to 2016. He served as editor for Open & Public V, the league’s manual on the Brown Act. Jenkins also served as president of the City Attorneys Association of Los Angeles County and member of the Executive Committee of the Public Law Section of the State Bar, as well as editor of the section newsletter.
Jenkins has been practicing law for 41 years, most of that time in the area of municipal law. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1978 immediately following his graduation with honors from Duke University School of Law, where he served as executive editor of the Duke Law Journal. Jenkins graduated with highest honors from Haverford College.
In 2015, Jenkins was honored by the American Bar Association with the Jefferson Fordham Advocacy Award, which recognizes professional excellence in the practice of state and local government law.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
The Volokh Conspiracy
October 1, 2022
Re: Robin Craig
Robin Craig was cited in an article about Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, in which the Sacketts are challenging the EPA's authority to regulate the use of their land under the Clean Water Act. Even if a given parcel (such as the Sackett's property) is not part of the "waters of the United States," activities on that parcel that result in pollution reaching regulated waters could be sufficient to subject such activities to federal regulation, she said. Please note this is a citation of a blog post by Craig on the American College of Environmental Lawyers website.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Felipe Jiménez
September, 2022
"The Institution of Contract," International Philosophy of Contract Law Seminar, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.
Robin Craig
September, 2022
"Water Judges in Utah," 2022 Annual Utah Judges Conference, Midway, Utah.
Robin Craig
September, 2022
Moderator, “A Changing Environment: Exploring the Impacts of Climate Change on Communities and Natural Resources.” 30th Annual Fall Conference on Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law, American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, Nashville, Tenn.
