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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.
- Student Life
Student Life
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 Workshops and Conferences
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- + 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
Workshops & Conferences
Fall 2019
- August 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Darius Palia (Rutgers)
Title: “Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Bidder and Target Shareholders?”
- September 03, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Aaron Tang (UC Davis School of Law)
Title: "A Lowest Cost Avoider Theory of Constitutional Law"
- September 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Christopher Fleming (USC)
Title: "Possession Adverse to God? The Sanskrit Jurisprudence of Divine Trusts and the ‘Ayodhya Dispute’"
- September 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC Law)
Title: “Toward a Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation”
Commentator: Mike Simkovic
- September 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: David Wilson (University of Delaware)
Title: "Racial Double Standards: Implications for Voting and Elections"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- September 16, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Ofer Eldar (Duke University)
Title: "TBA"
- September 19, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley)
Title: "How Would a Progressive Wealth Tax Work? Evidence From The Economics Literature"
- September 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Sara Sligar (USC)
Title: "TBA"
- September 26, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Andrea Chandrasekher (UC Davis School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- October 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Mani Shekhar Singh (Jindal Global Law School in Delhi)
Title: "TBA"
- October 07, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk & CLASS Workshop - Sarath Sanga (Northwestern School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
"Joint Faculty Recruitment Job Talk & CLASS Workshop
- October 10, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Robin Kundis Craig (University of Utah)
Title: "TBA"
- October 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Rodney Ramcharan (USC Marshall)
Title: "TBA"
- October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Anita Krishnakumar (St. John's School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- October 23, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - David Schwartz (Northwestern School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- October 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ("TBD") (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Gregory Mark (DePaul School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- October 31, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Alexandra Natapoff (UC Irvine School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- November 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Allison Earl ( University of Michigan)
Title: "TBA"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- November 06, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Jasmine Harris (UC Davis School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- November 07, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Jill Hasday (University of Minnesota Law School)
Title: "Intimate Laws and The Law"
*Jointly sponsored by (CLHC)
- November 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University)
Title: "Crowd-Judging"
- November 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Jeremy Kessler (Columbia University)
Title: "TBA"
- November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Faculty Recruitment Job Talk - Myriam Gilles (Cardozo School of Law)
Title: "TBA"
- November 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute)
Title: "TBA"
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- December 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Stephen Rich (USC Law)
Title: “The Many Faces of Identity”
Spring 2020
- February 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Adriana Robertson (Toronto)
Title: "TBA"
- February 06, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Mike Simkovic (USC)
Title: “Does taxing wealth reduce work hours?”
- February 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Jessica Erickson (University of Richmond)
Title: "Arbitrating Corporate Fraud"
- February 12, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM ("TBD") (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Danielle Boaz (University North Carolina)
Title: "TBA"
- February 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Keila Grinberg (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Title: "TBA"
co-sponsored by CLHC
- February 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Kimberly Clausing (Reed College)
Title: "TBA"
- February 27, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Stephen Rich (USC Law)
Title: "TBA"
- March 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Robert Post (Yale University)
Title: “Social and Economic Legislation and The Taft Court; Chapter 5, Volume X of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
- March 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Reva Siegel (Yale University)
Title: "TBA"
Co- Sponsored by CLHC
- March 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Jesse Fried (Harvard University)
Title: "TBA"
- March 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ("TBD") (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)
Title: "TBA"
- March 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Jon Gould (American University)
Title: "TBA"
- March 25, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna)
Title: "TBA"
- March 26, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC)
Title: "Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Meets the Populist Challenge"
- April 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Honor Sachs (University of Colorado Boulder)
Title: "TBA"
- April 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Chris Whytock (UCI)
Title: "TBA"
- April 09, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maggie Blackhawk (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "TBA"
- April 16, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
Title: "TBA"
- April 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)
Speaker: Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland)
Title: “The Call of the Wild: How Extremism Happens”
*Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
- April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Felipe Jiménez (USC Law)
Title: "TBA"
- April 23, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Greg Keating (USC Law)
Title: "TBA"
- April 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ("TBD") (CLHC Workshop)
Speaker: Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA)
Title: "TBA"
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Dorothy S. Lund
June, 2019
"Toward a Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation," National Business Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA.
Daniel Klerman
June, 2019
“Forum Selling Abroad,” Comparative Law Work-In-Progress Workshop, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL.
Emily Ryo
June, 2019
Emily Ryo was honored with an appreciation award from Senator Kamala Harris for her outstanding commitment to providing legal assistance to immigrant communities and to her research and work on immigration.
