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- About
About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 115-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 rigorous and interdisciplinary curriculum, our invaluable experiential learning opportunities, and the breadth and depth of our specialized areas of concentration and certificate offerings.
- Admissions
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.
- 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.
Faculty Scholarship
- 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)
- IMMIGRANTS AND GLOBAL MIGRATION INITIATIVE (IGMI)
- 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.
November 2019
Awards and Honors
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Ariela Gross
Ariela Gross has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History.
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Ariela Gross
Ariela Gross has been elected as the new Chair of the Legal History Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
Publications
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Gregory Keating
“Between Absolutism and Efficiency: Reply to Professors Giestfeld, Grady, and Priel,” Revus – Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Questioning unaccompanied immigrant children: Lessons from developmental science on forensic interviewing” (with Jodi A. Quas), Society for Research in Child Development, Child Evidence Brief No. 6 (2019).
Acceptances
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Dan Simon
"The Adversarial Mindset," Psychology, Public Policy and Law.
Presentations/Lectures/Workshops
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Daniel Klerman
“Legal Origin from Outer Space,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance,” NYU External Law & Economics Workshop, NYU Law School, New York, NY.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“The effects of the putative confession and evidence presentation on maltreated and non-maltreated 9- to 12-year-olds' Disclosures of a Minor Transgression” (with Angela Evans), Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA.
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Dan Simon
“Towards a General Framework of Major Biases,” Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Luther College, Decorah, IA.
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Dan Simon
“Police Interrogations,” Social Justice Forum, Luther College, Decorah, IA.
Other
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Jonathan Barnett
"The Forgotten Virtues of Doing Nothing," Truth on the Market, November 12, 2019.
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Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett moderated "Entertainment and Intellectual Property," for the Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property, at the University of Southern California.
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Hannah Garry
Hannah Garry moderated a panel discussion "This Land is Your Land: Broken Promises in U.S. Asylum and Refugee Policy," at the USC Gould School of Law.
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Ariela Gross
Ariela Gross chaired and commented on a panel, “Legal Knowledge and Claims-Making among Enslaved and Freed People,” at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
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Daniel Klerman
Daniel Klerman commented on Rok Spruk’s & Mitja Kovac’s, “Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Long-Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina,” at the 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College.
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Thomas D. Lyon
Thomas Lyon commented on Roseanna Sommers’, “Commonsense Consent,” at the 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2020
Re: Wayne Sandholtz
Wayne Sandholtz, a faculty member part of both USC Gould and USC Dornsife, wrote an op-ed discussing how Trump is “a few steps from becoming a new kind of autocrat –an elected one.” He analyzes how Trump’s strategies and actions mirror those of other elected autocrats, naming Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Rodrigo Duterte as examples.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Ariela Gross
November, 2019
Ariela Gross has been elected as the new Chair of the Legal History Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
Daniel Klerman
November, 2019
“Legal Origin from Outer Space,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA.
Thomas D. Lyon
November, 2019
Thomas Lyon commented on Roseanna Sommers’, “Commonsense Consent,” at the 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont-McKenna College.
