Three USC Law professors recently named to endowed professorships were recognized by friends and family at a ceremony Thursday, Sept. 14 to commemorate their scholarship and the school’s benefactors.
Matthew L. Spitzer, Gillian Hadfield and Andrei Marmor were honored along with the law school patrons who created chairs to honor Robert C. Packard, Richard L. and Antoinette S. Kirtland, and Maurice Jones, Jr.
“We spend a lot of time talking to donors and philanthropists, and they are lovely people who have done good things and are doing good things by giving back,” said USC Law Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law Edward J. McCaffery. “It is really their heartfelt giving that enables so much of what we do here.
“One of the things they get most excited about is creating chairs. They believe in what we do as scholars.”
Spitzer ’77 was named the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law. An expert in law and economics, broadcast regulation, and communications and mass media law, he is the former dean of USC Law and is a visiting associate in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He also holds a joint appointment with USC’s Department of Political Science.
Spitzer’s position is named for the late Robert C. Packard ’47, one of the nation’s leading airline defense attorneys and a model of professionalism over the course of his nearly 50-year career with the law firm of Kirtland & Packard. As a generous supporter of the University of Southern California, his contributions total more than $16 million.
Hadfield was appointed the Richard L. and Antoinette S. Kirtland Professor of Law. She studies the design of legal and dispute resolution systems in advanced and developing market economies; the markets for law, lawyers and dispute resolution; contract law and theory; economic analysis of law and gender economics and law. She is the executive director of the USC Center for Law, Economics and Organization, and is a 2006-07 fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Hadfield’s professorship is named for the late Richard Kirtland ’32 and his wife, Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland. Mr. Kirtland was a longtime supporter of USC Law and co-founder of Legion Lex. He specialized in insurance and malpractice defense at the law firm of Kirtland & Packard, of which he was a founding partner. Mrs. Kirtland, a gifted anesthesiologist, has served as a talented and respected member of the local medical community. She established the professorship in honor of her late husband and his lifetime of dedicated service to the legal profession.
Marmor was named the Maurice Jones, Jr. – Class of 1925 Professor of Law. A prolific author on issues concerning the relations between law, morality and politics, he is the director of the USC Center for Law & Philosophy and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, an online peer-reviewed journal in moral, political and legal philosophy.
Marmor’s professorship is named for the late Maurice Jones ’25, who was deeply committed to education and civic affairs. He was a senior partner with the law firm of Jones, Bell & Simpson. The professorship was endowed through the energy and generosity of Jones and his USC Law classmates.
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