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About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 115-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.
- Academics
Academics
Learn about our rigorous and interdisciplinary curriculum, our invaluable experiential learning opportunities, and the breadth and depth of our specialized areas of concentration and certificate offerings.
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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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Student Life
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.
- Careers
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.
- Faculty
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.
- Alumni and Giving
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.
Working Paper Series
Center for Law and Social Science (CLASS)
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2003 USC Legal Studies Working Paper Series
- 03-1 Edwin M. Smith, The Laws of War and Humanitarian Law: A Turbulent Vista, 9 Global Governance 115 (2003) (© by Lynne Rienner Publishers, used with permission).
- 03-2 Mary L. Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya.
- 03-3 Mary L. Dudziak, Who Cares about Courts? Creating a Constituency for Judicial Independence in Africa (101 Michigan Law Rev. 1622 (2003)) .
- 03-4 Mary L. Dudziak, The Politics of "The Least Dangerous Branch": The Court, the Constitution and Constitutional Politics Since 1945, in Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Press, 2002).
- 03-5 Timur Kuran and Edward J. McCaffery, Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web.
- 03-6 Elizabeth Garrett, Legislating Chevron.
- 03-7 Jennifer Arlen and Eric Talley, Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice.
- 03-8 Seth Seabury and Eric Talley, Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence.
- 03-9 Jennifer Arlen and W. Bentley MacLeod, Torts, Expertise and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations.
- 03-10 Ehud Kamar, A Regulatory Competition Theory of Indeterminacy in Corporate Law.
- 03-11 Tom Griffith, Taxing Sunny Days: Adjusting Taxes for Regional Living Costs and Amenities.
- 03-12 Ehud Kamar, Shareholder Litigation Under Indeterminate Corporate Law.
- 03-13 Elizabeth Garrett and Daniel A. Smith, Veiled Political Actors: The Real Threat to Campaign Disclosure Statutes.
- 03-14 Gregory C. Keating, Pressing Precaution Beyond the Point of Cost Justification.
- 03-15 Andrei Marmor, Authority, Equality and Democracy.
- 03-16 Andrei Marmor, The Rule of Law and its Limits.
- 03-17 Andrei Marmor, Entitlement to Land and The Right of Return: An Embarrassing Challenge to Liberal Zionism.
- 03-18 Mary L. Dudziak, September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? - Introduction (Duke University Press (forthcoming)).
- 03-19 Dan Simon, Daniel C. Krawczyk, Keith J. Holyoak, Construction of Preferences by Constraint Satisfaction (PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 15(5), 331 (2004)).
- 03-20 Dan Simon, Chadwick J. Snow, Stephen J. Read, The Redux of Cognitive Consistency Theories: Evidence Judgments by Constraint Satisfaction.
- 03-21 Edward J. McCaffery, The Fair Timing of Tax.
- 03-22 Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Heuristics and Biases in Thinking about Tax.
- 03-23 David Enoch and Andrei Marmor, The Case Against Moral Luck.
- 03-24 John G. Matsusaka, Have Voter Initiatives Paralyzed the California Budget?
RECENT NEWS
USC Law Launches Online Human Resources Certificate
June 7, 2018
New online certificate will help professionals advance in the field.
Washington Post Publisher Challenges and Inspires
May 17, 2018
Gould alum Fred Ryan urges new lawyers to keep pace with “disruptive change”
Standout Ceremony for LLM Commencement
May 17, 2018
Representing 46 countries, Class of 2018 is Gould's most diverse ever
