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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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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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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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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
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- CENTER FOR LAW AND PHILOSOPHY (CLP)
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- CENTER FOR LAW, HISTORY AND CULTURE (CLHC)
- CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (CTLB)
- INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM INSTITUTE (IRI)
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- 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.
November 2020
Publications
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Gregory Keating
"Corrective Justice: Sovereign or Subordinate?" In The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, edited by Andrew S. Gold & John C.P. Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Acceptances
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Ariela Gross
“Mourning, Memory, and Metahistory,” English Language Notes (forthcoming 2021).
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Felipe Jiménez
"Law, Morality, and the One-System View: A Reply to T.R.S. Allan," American Journal of Jurisprudence.
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Gregory Keating
“Form and Substance in the “Private Law” of Torts,” Journal of Tort Law.
Presentations/Lectures/Workshops
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Ariela Gross
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University Annual Conference on Cuban Slavery, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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Ariela Gross
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” National Association of Women Judges, Washington, DC.
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Ariela Gross
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
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Ariela Gross
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” NYU School of Law, New York, NY.
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Ariela Gross
“The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments: Then and Now” (with Eric Foner and Martha S. Jones), Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.
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Felipe Jiménez
"Rethinking Contract Remedies," Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Public Primacy in Corporate Law,” University of Florida Business Law Conference, 2020, Business Law in Transition, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Interviewing the Child who is Recanting Sexual Abuse,” Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection Educational Webinar Series, New York, NY.
Other
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Judy Davis
Judy Davis participated on a podcast entitled Internet Legal Research on a Budget: Q & A with the Authors (with Carole Levitt) sponsored by the State Bar of Michigan, November 9, 2020.
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Ariela Gross
Ariela Gross has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the international journal Slavery and Abolition.
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Marcela Prieto
Marcela Prieto Rudolphy, “Symposium on Chilean Referendum Part III: A Feminist Rethinking of the Chilean Constitution?” International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, Nov. 5, 2020.
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Marcela Prieto
Marcela Prieto Rudolphy. "Simposio ‘Plebiscito constitucional en Chile’ parte IV: ¿Una reconceptualización feminista de la Constitución chilena?" IberICONnect, November 25, 2020.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
KPCC Take Two
January 19, 2021
Re: Jean Lantz Reisz
Jean Reisz was interviewed about President Joe Biden's plans to introduce comprehensive immigration reform. "It seems to grant a pathway to citizenship for people who are here without legal status as of Jan. 1, 2021," she said. "It would allow people to presumably get some temporary status."
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Felipe Jiménez
November, 2020
"Rethinking Contract Remedies," Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Ariela Gross
November, 2020
“Mourning, Memory, and Metahistory,” English Language Notes (forthcoming 2021).
Ariela Gross
November, 2020
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University Annual Conference on Cuban Slavery, Yale University, New Haven, CT.