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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.
- Academics
Academics
Learn about our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and specialized areas.
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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.
- Students
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
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.
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Faculty Scholarship
USC Gould School of Law
- FACULTY DIRECTORY
- LECTURERS IN LAW DIRECTORY
- EXPERTS DIRECTORY
- FACULTY IN THE NEWS
- SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
- DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
- + 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.
April 2021
Publications
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Sam Erman
“Truer U.S. History: Race, Borders, and Status Manipulation,” Yale Law Journal.
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Felipe Jiménez
"Two Questions for Private Law Theory," Jurisprudence.
Acceptances
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Felipe Jiménez
"Some Doubts About Folk Jurisprudence: The Case of Proximate Cause," University of Chicago Law Review.
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Felipe Jiménez
"The Grounds of Arbitral Authority," Tulane Law Review.
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Felipe Jiménez
"Justifying Private Law," Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume II.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents' reluctance,” (with Agnieszka Nogalska, Hayden M. Henderson & Scarlet Cho) (in press). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
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Marcela Prieto
The Morality of the Laws of War: Law, War, and Murder (under contract with Oxford University Press).
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Marcela Prieto
"Right-wing Populism, the Reasonable, and the Limits of Ideal Theory: A Reply to Gila Stopler," International Journal of Constitutional Law.
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Robert K. Rasmussen
"COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure," Yale Law Journal Forum.
Presentations/Lectures/Workshops
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Robin Craig
“Environmental Law and Regulations,” Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Weber State University, Ogden, UT.
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Robin Craig
"Adaptation to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives" (with Jonathan Adler and Matthew Kahn), Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH.
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Robin Craig
“Environmental Law and Law School.” University of Utah Department of Political Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Daniel Klerman
“COVID-19 and Residential Lease Renegotiation” (with Meirav Furth-Matzkin), Quantlaw, University of Arizona Law School, Tucson, AZ.
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Abby K. Wood
“The Political Economy of COVID-19 Policy Choices: Stay-at-Home Orders and Worker Political Efficacy in the States,” University of Michigan Center for Political Studies Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Abby K. Wood
“The Political Economy of COVID-19 Policy Choices: Stay-at-Home Orders and Worker Political Efficacy in the States,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Other
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig accepted an invitation to participate in the Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project, educating judges about climate science and the law. Craig will be authorizing the course materials on helpful judicial procedures for climate change cases, especially climate change tort cases.
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Felipe Jiménez
"Justifying Private Law," Download of the Week, Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
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Thomas D. Lyon
Thomas Lyon received a $250,000 grant from the California Office of Emergency Services to continue conducting forensic interviews for the Los Angeles County Dependency courts.
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Marcela Prieto
Marcela Prieto participated on a panel discussion on “Constitutionalism in Latin America,” Constitutionalism and the Free Society Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
NBC Los Angeles
June 16, 2021
Re: Jody David Armour
Jody Armour was interviewed about Congress's approval of the bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. "The concern is that this may be just hollow symbolism, and we should not just settle for mere symbolism at the expense of substantive reform," he said.
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Robert K. Rasmussen
April, 2021
"COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure," Yale Law Journal Forum.
Marcela Prieto
April, 2021
Marcela Prieto participated on a panel discussion on “Constitutionalism in Latin America,” Constitutionalism and the Free Society Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
Thomas D. Lyon
April, 2021
“Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents' reluctance,” (with Agnieszka Nogalska, Hayden M. Henderson & Scarlet Cho) (in press). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
