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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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Jack Goetz
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
Email: jgoetz@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: August 8, 2023
Jack Goetz is a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law. Prior to moving to USC in 2015, he was the academic lead for a 100-hour mediation training certificate program that he created in 2009 and then taught for seven years at the California State University campuses in Northridge and Dominguez Hills. Goetz serves as president of the nonprofit company Educational Solutions 4 Change (Es4c), which among other things, offers conflict resolution and mediation training to other nonprofit and governmental groups. In that capacity, he was academic director for a mediation training program offered to the Los Angeles Police Department, Office of the Ombuds (2015), and at the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) (2018-2020). Es4c also delivered conflict resolution training to the leadership teams at the Riverside Community College District (2022).
As a neutral, Goetz serves the public privately, on various public panels, and as an arbitrator and mediator for the LACBA’s Attorney-Client Mediation and Arbitration Services, an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA), and a mediator for the Ventura County Superior Court. He also served as a temporary judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court from 2012-2017. Goetz served four years on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) and was the SCMA president in 2018. The Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Program honored him in 2011 with the “Outstanding Volunteer” award.
Goetz’s extensive business background includes receiving international acclaim for creating the first nationally accredited internet law school, Concord Law School (1998), now part of the Purdue University Global system. He serves on the business department faculty at Moorpark College, teaching classes in Business Law and Introduction to Business. Goetz served the educational community as a commissioner for the Distance Education Accrediting Commission, overseeing the accreditation compliance of many educational institutions offering online classes domestically and internationally (2017-2023).
Goetz advocates for elevating the mediation field by integrating qualifications resembling other professions as well as strengthening public protection in mediation. He currently serves as president of MC3, a nonprofit organization designed to promote greater education and training for mediators through certification and the social justice associated with greater widespread public access to qualified mediators. He was a member of the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution from 2014-2017.
Goetz received his PhD in Education from Capella University (2006), his JD from Boston University (1979), his MBA from Pepperdine University (1990), and his BA in Economics from San Diego State University (1976).
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
September 25, 2023
Re: Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett wrote an op-ed piece, based on his forthcoming paper to be published in the University of Chicago Business Law Review, about antitrust regulations and the effects it has on merger review processes. "This inquiry raises serious concerns that legislators and regulators have embarked on a course of action that has an insufficient factual foundation in the digital markets on which competition policymakers have focused," Barnett wrote.
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Mugambi Jouet
August, 2023
“Guns, Mass Incarceration, and Bipartisan Reform: Beyond Vicious Circle and Social Polarization,” 55 Arizona State Law Journal 239 (2023).
Jonathan Barnett
August, 2023
"Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole in the Age of Populist Antitrust," University of Chicago Business Law Review.
Robin Craig
August, 2023
Robin Craig's article, "The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes," 21 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1-60 (July 2022), was featured in The Regulatory Review on August 31, 2023.
