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- About
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.
- Admissions
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.
- Student Life
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.
CLASS Workshops
Center for Law and Social Science (CLASS)
- CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE (CLASS)
- CLASS WORKSHOPS
- CLEO WORKSHOPS
- WORKING PAPER SERIES
- FACULTY
- MAILING LIST
Location: USC Gould School of Law, Faculty Lounge, Room 433 (unless otherwise stated)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (Lunch served at 11:50 a.m.; Talk begins promptly at 12:00 p.m.)
Day: Mondays
Hard copies of all CLASS papers are available in room 461.
Online copies can be downloaded by clicking the title of the paper below as they become available. When not available for download, copies will be emailed to members of the CLASS email list. To join the list, please click here.
(Please note that some topics are to be announced)
Spring 2019
- January 07 - Johnathan Katz - (Caltech)
Title: “Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies”
- January 14 - Joel Cooper (Princeton)
Title: “Gullibility in the Era of Donald Trump: How the Avoidance of Feeling Gullible Leads to Distorted Beliefs”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- January 28 - Dorainne Green (Indiana)
Title: “Relationship Inequalities in Law School Predict Disparities in Law School Satisfaction and Achievement”
- February 11 - Abby Wood - (USC)
Title: TBA
- February 25 - Michael Kang (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)
Title: "Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering"
- March 04 - Keith Payne ( University of North Carolina)
Title: “Inequality and subjective status: Why economic inequality is more than economics.”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- March 18 - Robert Anderson (Pepperdine)
Title: “An Evolutionary Perspective on Contracting: Evidence from Poison Pills”
- March 25 - Adam Bonica (Stanford)
Title: "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary"
- April 01 - Emily Satterthwaite (University of Toronto)
Title: “Toward A Signaling Account of Voluntary Value-Added Tax Registration”
- April 08 - Yair Listokin - (Yale)
Title: TBA
- April 15 - JJ Prescott ( University of Michigan)
Title: TBA
- April 22 - Bernd Wittenbrink (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- April 29 - Dan Kahan (Yale)
Title: TBA
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
Fall 2018
- August 20 - Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
Title: "The Transnational Legal Ordering of the Death Penalty"
Download: Sandholtz Paper
- August 27 - Jonathan Barnett (USC)
Title: "The Great Patent Grab"
- September 10 - Jeffrey Weaver - (USC Dornsife)
Title: "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio"
Download: Weaver Paper
- September 17 - Sharece Thrower (Vanderbilt University)
Title: "Legislative Capacity and Executive Discretion"
- September 24 - John Wixted (UC San Diego)
Title: "Time to Exonerate Eyewitness Memory"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- October 01 - Joshua Wright (George Mason University)
Title: “Requiem for a Paradox: The Dubious Rise and Inevitable Fall of Hipster Antitrust”
- October 08 - David Bjerk (Claremont McKenna College)
Title: “One Race and Wrongful Convictions”
- October 15 - Ira Hyman (Western Washington University)
Title: "Crime Blindness: The Impact of Selective Attention and Inattentional Blindness on Eyewitness Awareness and Memory”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- October 29 - Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School)
Title: "Contextualizing the Link between Corporate Governance and Performance: Governance Changes As a Signal of Managerial Quality"
- November 05 - David Dunning (University of Michigan)
Title: “Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One’s Conceptual Reach”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- November 19 - Jennifer Skeem (UC Berkeley)
Title: "Impact of Risk Assessment on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Sentencing"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- November 26 - Daniel Klerman (USC)
Title: “Law Matters - Less Than We Thought”
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