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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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- 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
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Workshops and Conferences
Fall 2022
- July 27, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)
Speaker: Panel Discussion
Title: "New Developments for Antitrust Enforcement in Asia and the EU"
- August 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Kathy Zeiler (Boston)
Title: The Transparency of Quantitative Empirical Legal Research (2018–2020)
- August 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Lewis Kornhauser (NYU)
Title: "A Tale of Two Models"
- August 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maya Sen (Harvard Kennedy School)
Title: “The ‘Old Party Out’ Theory Certiorari”
- August 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Melissa F. Wasserman (Texas)
Title: “Deadlines versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office.”
- September 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maeve Glass (Columbia Law School)
Title: “Killing Precedent: The Slaughterhouse Constitution.”
Jointly with CLHC.
- September 08, 12:10 PM - 1:14 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould)
Title: “Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save too Little, Borrow too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?”
Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould
- September 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
Title: “Judicial Independence in Immigration Courts”
- September 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Leslie Kendrick (UVA)
Title: “Contemporary Problems and Autonomy Justifications for Freedom of Speech”
- September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: David Landau (Florida State Univ. School of Law)
Title: “Restorative Constitutionalism”
- September 19, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Kate Klonick (St. John's Univ. School of Law)
Title: “Big Speech”
- September 19, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Matt Shaffer (Marshall)
Title: “Contentious Valuations: Financial Reports as Schelling Points.”
- September 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Stephanie Jones-Rogers (UC Berkeley)
Title: “She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage”: Reconsidering the Origins of British Colonial Descent Law.
- September 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv)
Title: "The Conflict Theory of Tort Law"
- September 29, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Brad Wendel (Cornell)
Title: “Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Criticism, Accountability, and Regret.”
- October 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould)
Title: “Biases in Legal Decision Making: Comparing Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Law Students, and Laypersons”.
- October 06, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law)
Title: “The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future”
- October 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Daria Roithmayr (USC)
Title: “Detecting the Network Spread of Police Shooting in the Chicago Police Department”
- October 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Courtney Cox (Fordham)
Title: "The Uncertain Judge"
- October 13, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)
Speaker: Panel Discussion
Title: "Digital Privacy Hot Topics"
- October 13, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Brandon Garrett (Duke) and Nicholas Scurich (UCI)
Title: “Judging Firearms Evidence.”
- October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Stephanie Tully (USC Marshall)
Title: "Psychological Ownership of Money"
- October 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Mark Fenster (Florida)
Title: “How Reputational NDAs Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach).”
Jointly with CLHC
- October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University)
Title: "TBA"
- October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong)
Title: "TBA"
- October 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Mona Oraby (Howard University)
Title: “Historical Fiction as Legal Archive: Horizontal Law in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Frankenstein in Baghdad”
- October 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
Title: "A Right to Adopt and Parental Licensing"
- October 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Hillel Bavli (SMU Dedman School of Law)
Title: "Character Evidence as a Conduit for Implicit Bias"
- November 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Jeffery Zhang (Michigan)
Title: "Protecting the Sovereign's Money Monopoly."
- November 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Nick Sage (LSE)
Title: "Contract Types and Liberal Theory"
- November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI)
Title: "TBA"
- November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Dolores Albarracin (Penn)
Title: "TBA"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
- November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)
Title: “Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in later medieval Mediterranean Europe”
- November 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Amna Akbar (Ohio State University)
Title: "TBA"
- November 28, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Colleen Chien (Santa Clara)
Title: "TBA"
- November 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC) Book Talk
Title: "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean"
Co-sponsored by the Casden Institute and Levan Institute for the Humanities
- December 08, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Sarah Mayeux (Vanderbilt)
Title: "TBA"
Spring 2023
- December 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Olatunde Johnson (Columbia)
Title: "The Missing Half: Revisiting Monetary Remedies to Address Segregation"
- January 12, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Robin Craig (USC)
Title: "Grieved to Death: Econecrotourism and Equitable Access to the World's Disappearing Natural Wonders"
- January 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: David Hirshleifer (USC Marshall)
Title: "TBA"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
- January 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt)
Title: "TBA"
Co-sponsored with Classics.
- January 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Barak Richman (Duke)
Title: "TBA"
- February 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Penelope Andrews (NY Law)
Title: "TBA"
- February 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Erin Miller (USC)
Title: "TBA"
- February 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Alan Schwartz (Yale)
Title: "TBA"
- February 16, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: D. Danny Sokol (USC)
Title: "TBA"
- February 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Dorothy Roberts (Penn)
Title: 20th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
20th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
- February 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Roseanna Sommers (Michigan)
Title: "TBA"
- February 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Nils Jansen (Münster)
Title: "TBA"
- March 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jill Frank
Title: "TBA"
- March 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Erik Hovenkamp (USC)
Title: "TBA"
- March 09, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Hannah Garry (USC)
Title: “Mixed Claims Commissions & International Criminal Trials: Towards a Transformative Justice Approach to Atrocity Situations”
- March 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Peter Ditto (UCI)
Title: "TBA"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
- March 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Brandon Bourgeois
Title: "TBA"
- April 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Mala Chatterjee (Columbia)
Title: "TBA"
- April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Matthew Fletcher (Michigan)
Title: “Muskrat versus Canary Textualism”
Indian Law & Policy Lecture
- April 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Kathy Young (Univ. Mass)
Title: "TBA"
- April 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Diego Papayannis (Girona)
Title: "TBA"
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
India Education Diary
September 27, 2022
Re: Andrew T. Guzman
Dean Andrew Guzman was quoted about the USC Gould JD Class Of 2025. “This is an important time to be studying law, as there is no profession that is more essential to the success of democracy,” he said. “Even the smallest legal changes can affect the lives of so many.”
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Felipe Jiménez
August, 2022
"Legal Positivism for Legal Officials," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.
Robin Craig
August, 2022
"Tribal Water Rights and Tribal Health: The Klamath Tribes and the Navajo Nation During the COVID-19 Pandemic," St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy (Forthcoming 2023).
Robin Craig
August, 2022
"Remembering the Ocean in Water Law," chapter for A Research Agenda for Water Law.
