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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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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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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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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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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.
August 2023
Publications
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Scott Altman
"Are Parents Fiduciaries," 42 Law and Philosophy 431 (2023).
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Robin Craig
J.B. Ruhl & Robin Kundis Craig, "4°C," 53 Environmental Law Reporter 10,641 (Aug. 2023) (excerpted version of the 2021 Minnesota Law Review article published as part of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review as being one of the Top 5 articles of 2021-2022).
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Robin Craig
"Remembering the Ocean in Water Law," Chapter 10 in Vanessa Casado Perez & Rhett Larson, eds., A Research Agenda for Water Law 205-236, Edward Elgar (2023).
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Mugambi Jouet
“Guns, Mass Incarceration, and Bipartisan Reform: Beyond Vicious Circle and Social Polarization,” 55 Arizona State Law Journal 239 (2023).
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Gregory Keating
"Enterprise Liability", in Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Martin Petrin & Christina Writing, ed.) Edward Elgar Publishing (2023).
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Child maltreatment, the law, and two types of error," Child Maltreatment (2023).
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Elaborations and denials in children’s responses to yes-no any/some questions in forensic interviews" (with Szojka, Z.A., Henderson, H.M., Hur, J., and Siepmann, H.) Child Maltreatment (2023).
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Successful criminal prosecutions of sex trafficking and sexual abuse of minors: A comparative analysis" (with Quas, J.A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Winks, K.M.H., and Dianiska, R.E.) Child Maltreatment (2023).
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Child witnesses productively respond to 'How' questions about evaluations but struggle with other 'How' questions" (with Henderson, H., Sullivan, C.E., Wylie, B.E., Stolzenberg, S.N., and Evans, A.D.) Child Maltreatment (2023).
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Attorneys’ questions and children’s responses referring to the nature of sexual touch in child sexual abuse trials" (with Szojka, Z.A., Moussavi, N., and Burditt, C.) Child Maltreatment (2023).
Acceptances
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Jonathan Barnett
"Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole in the Age of Populist Antitrust," University of Chicago Business Law Review.
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Thomas D. Lyon
"Appellate Review of Child Sexual Abuse Convictions: The Importance of Character Evidence" (with Suzanne St. George, Hayden M. Henderson, Michaela Flippin, Stacia Stolzenberg), Child Maltreatment (Forthcoming).
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Edward McCaffery
"The Curiouser and Curiouser Case of Carried Interest" (with Darryll K. Jones), Arizona Law Review (Spring 2024).
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Edward McCaffery
"The Paradox of Taxing the Rich," Florida Tax Review (Forthcoming, Fall 2023).
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Edward McCaffery
"The Property-Tax Bundle of Rights," Michigan State Law Review (Forthcoming 2024).
Other
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig is part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Andrew Gracey, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, who were awarded a grant in the amount of $59,500.00 from the Collaborative Research Planning Award (CRPA) for their proposal, Global Center for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal.
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Robin Craig
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.
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.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
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.