Todd Grabarsky
USC Gould School of Law

Todd Grabarsky is a deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. He specializes in federal constitutional law, and in his practice he defends the constitutionality of California laws and policies. Most recently, he has defended California’s public health restrictions and regulations imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic against an array of First Amendment and other constitutional challenges. He also defends numerous other California policies such as gun control legislation, labor protections, election laws, policies that expand access to affordable housing, and the accuracy and completeness of the census count.

Grabarsky earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York (Yeshiva University), where he served as editor-in-chief of the Cardozo Law Review. After law school, he clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for the Hon. Edward J. Davila, and then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Hon. Paul J. Watford and the Hon. Arthur L. Alarcón (dec.). He also spent a brief period as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He currently serves on the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee and as a board member of the Law and Humanities Institute.

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LLM Guide
June 5, 2023
Re: USC Gould School of Law

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