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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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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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Workshops and 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 11, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Book Launch: Ariela Gross
Title: "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana"
Co-authored by Alejandro de la Fuente
- 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: “On the Psychology of Extremism: How Motivational Imbalance Breeds Intemperance”
*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: “Modeling Settlement Bargaining with Algorithmic Game Theory”
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: “Transnational Forum Shopping and U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment”,
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: “Debt, Control, and Collusion”
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: “Corporate Law and Superstar CEOs”
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: “Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response around Changes in Sin Taxes”
- 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 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
Spring 2021
- January 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Brian Cheffins (University of Cambridge) & Steve Bank (UCLA)
Title: “Corporate Law’s Critical Junctures”
- January 25, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Emilie Aguirre (University of Chicago)
Title: "Beyond Profit"
- February 01, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Geeyoung Min (Michigan State University School of Law)
Title: “Relational Enforcement of Stock Exchange Rules”
- February 03, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Book Talk- John Witt (Yale)
Title: “American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19”
Commentators:Rabia Belt (Stanford University) and Michael Willrich (Brandeis University) Moderator: Ariela Gross
- February 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Matthew Shaffer (USC Marshall)
Title: “Accounting Reports as Arbiters of Value in Contentious M&A”
- February 11, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Anita Krishnakumar (St. John's University)
Title: "Statutory History"
- February 18, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Penn) Dana Johnson (USC Dornsife)
Title: “Two Stories of Biddy Mason: A Freedwoman and Entrepreneur in Early Los Angeles”
CLHC Conversation: Moderator: Hilary Schor (USC)
- February 18, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: A Conversation- Sarah Barringer Gordon (Penn) & Dana Johnson (USC)
Title: TBA
Moderator: Hilary Schor (USC)
- February 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Paul Slovic (University of Oregon)
Title: "Virtuous Violence in America”
*Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
- February 23, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "What May I Use?"
- February 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Mark Letteney (USC)
Title: “Roman Law in Late Antiquity: Christianization and Codification”
- March 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: CLASS Workshop -Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)
Title: “Identifying Exceptional Law Students”
- March 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Sam Erman (USC), K-Sue Park (Georgetown) & Greg Ablavasky (Stanford)
Title: CLHC Conversation
A conversation on how to tell the U.S. legal history of the United States with slavery, indigenous dispossession, empire, nativism, and racism all front and center.
- March 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Markus Brauer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Title: "Promoting diversity and inclusion: Ineffective and effective approaches"
*Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
- March 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Sean Fraga (USC)
Title: "Digitally Mapping Commercial Currents: Narrating a U.S. Customs Logbook with Digital Humanities Tools"
Sean Fraga is a Digital Humanities postdoc at USC.
- March 11, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Robin Craig
Title: "The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Public Law as Cultural Memory"
- March 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Ken Ayotte (Berkeley)
Title: “Bankruptcy Process For Sale”
- March 23, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
Title: “Beyond the Scope of Consent”
- March 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College)
Title: : "Defending Wives' Right to Say No: Debating Marital Rape in Eighteenth-Century English Courts and Culture"
- March 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Dan Klerman (USC)
Title: “The Transformation of the Art World: Law, Norms, and Institutions” (with Anja Shortland)
Commentator: Scott Altman
- March 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Sylvia Perry (Northwestern)
Title: “Exploring how Parent-Child Conversations about Race influence Children’s Implicit Biases”
*Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
- April 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Maureen Craig (NYU)
Title: “Towards a “Majority-minority” Nation: Understanding Political Attitudes & Intergroup Relations in the 21st Century”
- April 13, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia)
Title: "TBA"
- April 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jennifer Petersen (USC)
Title: “A Primitive but Effective Means of Conveying Ideas”: Gesture and Image as Speech”
- April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Jon Gould (ASU)
Title: “What We Know – and Do Not – About the Insidious Effects of Brady Violations”
- April 20, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Helen Frowe (Stockholm University)
Title: "TBA"
- April 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Simona Cerutti (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris)
Title: "The Poor's Justice”. Jurisdiction and Debt-Credit Relationships (Savoyard State, 18th century)
- April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Marcela Prieto (USC)
Title: The Morality of the Laws of War: War, Law, and Murder" (under contract with Oxford University Press) The chapter is chapter IV, "Beyond the revisionist morality"
Commentator: Jonathan Quong (USC)
- April 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
Title: “The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies”
- April 30, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Lauren Scholz (FSU)
Title: "Privacy as Private Law: Rule of Law in the Private Sphere"
Commentator: Lisa Austin (Toronto)
- May 21, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Rebecca Stone (UCLA)
Title: "Putting Freedom of Contract in it's Place"
Commentators: Felipe Jimenez (USC) and Greg Keating (USC)
- June 11, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)
Speaker: Ed McCaffery (USC)
Title: “The Property-Tax Bundle of Rights”
Commentator: Eric Claeys (George Mason)
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
NBC Los Angeles
June 16, 2021
Re: Jody David Armour
Jody Armour was interviewed about Congress's approval of the bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. "The concern is that this may be just hollow symbolism, and we should not just settle for mere symbolism at the expense of substantive reform," he said.
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Robert K. Rasmussen
April, 2021
"COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure," Yale Law Journal Forum.
Marcela Prieto
April, 2021
Marcela Prieto participated on a panel discussion on “Constitutionalism in Latin America,” Constitutionalism and the Free Society Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
Thomas D. Lyon
April, 2021
“Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents' reluctance,” (with Agnieszka Nogalska, Hayden M. Henderson & Scarlet Cho) (in press). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
