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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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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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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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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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Center for Transnational Law and Business (CTLB)
USC Gould School of Law
- CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (CTLB)
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- EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
- COMPETITION REGULATORY AGENCY REVIEW AND EVALUATION PROJECT
- GLOBAL TRACKER: COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST POLICIES IN TECH SECTOR
- DIGITAL COMPETITION IN THE AMERICAS STUDY GROUP
- DIGITAL COMPETITION IN ASIA STUDY GROUP
- CTLB INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATED SCHOLARS
- ITA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
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- 2022 CHINA SUMMIT ON GLOBAL MERGERS
The Center for Transnational Law and Business (CTLB) promotes world-class policy analysis, research and educational opportunities in international business, law and policy. The center serves USC, the broader community of Southern California, the nation and the world.
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"The reality of business is global. Though laws are made at the national level, businesses act across borders and so must adapt to regulations and requirements that vary from place to place and time to time."
-USC Provost Andrew T. Guzman, an international law and economics scholar 
Scholar-in-Residence:
A. Douglas Melamed
Doug Melamed is a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Law School and Scholar in Residence at the USC Gould School of Law.
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Global business is regulated by numerous and varied legal regimes in an increasingly complex and chaotic patchwork of rules and practices. This raises critical questions about how to improve the regulation of international business activities. As one of the country's leading law schools, the USC Gould School of Law is the ideal home for CTLB to convene exceptional leaders, scholars and stakeholders, and inspire meaningful dialogue.
CTLB provides a scholarly home for the development of practical solutions for global businesses. The center facilitates expanded interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching and research, and brings together leading academic experts, practitioners and policymakers from across the country and the world.
The center's activities include:
- the production of scholarly research and policy proposals on transnational business law issues
- the convening of government officials, lawyers and business professionals for conversation and debate
- the training of a new generation of domestic and foreign attorneys and policymakers for leadership in global law and business
RECENT NEWS

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New 1L class is the most academically accomplished on record at the law school

Facing the tragedy of war
September 13, 2023
Professor Marcela Prieto’s new book, “The Morality of the Laws of War,” argues for strengthening international law to el...