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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.
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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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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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Workshops & Conferences
Fall 2020
- August 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Mariana Pargendler (Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in São Paulo)
Title: “Veil Peeking: The Corporation as a Nexus for Regulation”
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- August 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Felipe Jiménez (USC)
Title: "Legal Principles, Law, and Tradition"
- August 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Calvin Lai (Washington University in St. Louis)
Title: “Racial Disparities in Police Traffic Stops are associated with County-Level Racial Prejudice”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- September 03, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC)
Title: “Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Challenge of Populism”
Discussant: "TBA"
- September 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: David Kirk (Oxford)
Title: Title: “Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change After Hurricane Katrina”
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- September 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Alison Renteln (USC)
Title: “Comparing Legal Approaches to Offensive Names and Imagery”
- September 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Guy Charles (Duke)
Title: “Race, Political Power, and American Democracy: Voting Rights Law and Policy for a Divided America.”
- September 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles / Free University of Brussels)
Title: “Corporate Governance Through Exit and Voice”
- September 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Greg Keating (USC)
Title: “Form and Substance in the ‘Private Law’ of Torts”
Commentator: Gary Watson
- September 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker:
Title: Book Panel: Alejandro de la Fuente & Ariela Gross, “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia”
Panelists: Adrienne Davis (Washington University St. Louis School of Law); Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law); Sven Beckert (Harvard History); moderator Nathan Perl-Rosenthal USC Dornsife). Cosponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities.
- October 05, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland)
Title: TBA
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- October 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: CLHC Discussion
Title: Racial Justice Protest and Resistance Lawyering
Discussants: Ken Mack (Harvard, Law), Melynda Price (U. of Kentucky, Politics & Law), Dan Farbman (Boston College, Law); moderator Clare Pastore (USC Law)
- October 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Michael Abramowicz (George Washington)
Title: TBA
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- October 15, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
Title: Constructing a Regional Human Rights Legal Order: The Inter-American Court, National Courts, and Judicial Dialogue, 1988 - 2014
Commentator: Marcela Prieto Rudolphy
- October 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC)
Title: Manuscript Workshop,“Nationality on Trial: Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean"
- October 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Chris Whytock (UCI)
Title: TBA
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- October 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: CLHC Discussion
Title: The Right to Vote: Reconstruction and Right Now
Discussants: Morgan Kousser (Cal Tech, History), Franita Tolson (USC Law); Moderator: Sam Erman (USC Law)
- October 22, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Jody Armour
Title: “N*GGA THEORY: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law”
- October 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Danny Sokol (University of Florida)
Title: TBA
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- October 28, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Jasmine Harris (UC Davis)
Title: “Taking Disability Public”
Commentator: Ed McCaffery
- November 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Melissa Ferguson (Yale)
Title: TBA
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- November 05, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Craig Konnoth (Colorado University)
Title: “Preemption through Privatization, 134 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2021)”
- November 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Assaf Hamdani (Tel Aviv University)
Title: TBA
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- November 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jennifer Rothman (Loyola)
Title: “Trademark Preemption, The Right of Publicity, and Trademark’s Theory of Personality”
- November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Kyle Rozema (Washington University)
Title: TBA
- November 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker:
Title: Anti-Blackness in a Multiracial World
Discussants: Jared Sexton (UC Irvine, Sociology), Danzy Senna (USC, English); Moderator: Stephen Rich (USC Law)
- November 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
Title: TBA
Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- November 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Dov Cohen (University of Illinois)
Title: TBA
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
- December 03, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Susan Franck (American University)
Title: "TBA"
Spring 2021
- February 04, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: David Cruz (USC)
Title: "TBA"
Commentator: "TBA"
- February 23, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "TBA"
- March 23, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
Title: "TBA"
- April 13, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia)
Title: "TBA"
- April 20, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Helen Frowe (Stockholm University)
Title: "TBA"
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
September 24, 2020
Re: Jody David Armour
Jody Armour was interviewed on the Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod Podcast on the lack of charges against the police officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death. "As a law professor I teach my students that ethics are important to lawyers... It is especially disturbing for me to see the attorney general mislead the American public that way" regarding Breonna Taylors death, he said.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Jonathan Barnett
July, 2020
"Lessons from Luckin Coffee: The Underappreciated Risks of Variable Interest Entities," Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, July 28, 2020.
Jonathan Barnett
July, 2020
"Big is not necessarily bad," The Hill, July 30, 2020.
Edward McCaffery
July, 2020
“The Death of the Income Tax (or, The Rise of America's Universal Wage Tax),” Indiana Law Journal 95 (2020): 1233.
