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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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Academics
Learn about our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and specialized areas.
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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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Students
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.
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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.
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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.
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Faculty Scholarship
USC Gould School of Law
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- SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
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- + CENTERS AND INITIATIVES
- CENTER FOR LAW AND PHILOSOPHY (CLP)
- CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE (CLASS)
- CENTER FOR LAW, HISTORY AND CULTURE (CLHC)
- CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (CTLB)
- INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM INSTITUTE (IRI)
- PACIFIC CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS
- SAKS INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS
- + WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
USC Gould faculty is committed to scholarship, publishing articles in a variety of journals and reviews. Faculty contributions to scholarship and research are listed on their individual directory pages, on bepress, HeinOnline and Google Scholar.
Faculty members also present their work at conferences and symposiums and serve on panel discussions and at workshops. Below is a list of their endeavors.
July 2021
Publications
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Jonathan Barnett
"The Great Patent Grab," in The Battle Over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation edited by S. H. Haber and N. R. Lamoreaux. Oxford University Press, 2021.
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Robin Craig
Selected Environmental Law Statutes: 2021-2022 Educational Edition. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, July 2021.
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Robin Craig
“Learning to Live with the Trickster in New Zealand: U.S. and New Zealand Fisheries Law in the Anthropocene,” Resource Management Theory & Practice (2021): 95.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Children's under-informative responding is associated with concealment of a transgression” (with Jennifer Gongola & Shanna Williams), 35 Applied Cognitive Psychology 1065 (2021).
Acceptances
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Robin Craig
"Governing Complexity" (with Barbara Cosens, J.B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen, Lance Gunderson, Antti Belinskij, Thorsten Blenckner, Alejandro E. Camacho, Brian C. Chaffin, Holly Doremus, Robert Glicksman, Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Rhett Larson, & Jukka Similä), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Erik Hovenkamp
"The Antitrust Duty to Deal in the Age of Big Tech," Yale Law Journal.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Use of global trait cues helps to explain older adults’ decrements in detecting children’s lies” (with Alison O’Connor, Micaela Wiens, & Angela D. Evans) (in press), Legal and Criminological Psychology.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Causal indicators for assessing the truthfulness of child speech in forensic interviews” (with Zane Durante, Victor Ardulov, Manoj Kumar, Jennifer Gongola, & Shrikanth Narayanan) (in press), Computer Speech & Language.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“The difficulty of teaching adults to recognize referential ambiguity in children's testimony: The influence of explicit instruction and sample questions” (with Breanne Wylie, Jennifer Gongola, & Angela D. Evans) (in press), Applied Cognitive Psychology.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“The utility of the birthday prompt in narrative practice with maltreated and non-maltreated 4- to 9-year-old children” (with Hayden Henderson, Hailey Konovalov & Shanna Williams) (in press), Applied Developmental Science.
Working Papers
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Robin Craig
“Re-Valuing the Ocean in Law: Exploiting the Panarchy Paradox of a Complex System Approach" posted to SSRN.
Presentations/Lectures/Workshops
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Robin Craig
“4°C” (with J.B. Ruhl), Environmental Law Collaborative, Colorado Springs, CO.
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Robin Craig
“Roles for Law Professors.” Environmental Law Collaborative. Colorado Springs, CO.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Shareholders as Regulators,” Junior Business Law Scholars Conference, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Language and Child Interviewing: A Tribute to Anne Graffam Walker” (with Julie Kenniston), 28th Annual American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Colloquium, Clark, NJ.
Other
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig participated on a panel discussion on “Climate Change Litigation and Science Forum,” Our Future in the Balance: The Role of Courts and Tribunals in Meeting the Climate Crisis, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, UK.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
West Central Tribune
September 7, 2021
Re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich wrote an op-ed about the hypocrisy of certain laws in Texas. "You have to hand it to those Texans," she wrote. "On one hand, they believe in liberty — to not wear a mask. But for the victim of rape or incest to have control over her body? No way."
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Thomas D. Lyon
July, 2021
“Use of global trait cues helps to explain older adults’ decrements in detecting children’s lies” (with Alison O’Connor, Micaela Wiens, & Angela D. Evans) (in press), Legal and Criminological Psychology.
Thomas D. Lyon
July, 2021
“Causal indicators for assessing the truthfulness of child speech in forensic interviews” (with Zane Durante, Victor Ardulov, Manoj Kumar, Jennifer Gongola, & Shrikanth Narayanan) (in press), Computer Speech & Language.
Thomas D. Lyon
July, 2021
“The difficulty of teaching adults to recognize referential ambiguity in children's testimony: The influence of explicit instruction and sample questions” (with Breanne Wylie, Jennifer Gongola, & Angela D. Evans) (in press), Applied Cognitive Psychology.
