Content start here

Inquiries

For journalist and media inquiries please contact:

Melissa Masatani
Assistant Director of Communications and Media Relations
mmasatani@law.usc.edu
Direct: (213) 821-3578

For social media and USC Law Magazine inquiries please contact:

communications@law.usc.edu

Mailing Address

USC Gould School of Law
699 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90089

Law Experts

USC Gould School of Law faculty are available to talk with members of the news media on a variety of topics. For assistance, please contact Melissa Masatani at mmasatani@law.usc.edu or (213) 821-3578.

USC Pressroom

Visit USC’s Pressroom to search for faculty experts, news releases, source alerts and more.

Experts Directory

View the USC Gould School of Law directory to find faculty and lecturer experts on specific legal topics.

Faculty Spotlight

Bridging coasts and codes: USC Gould professor tackles AI’s legal future at Harvard
artistic illustration of Professor Daniel Sokol with circuitry

Bridging coasts and codes: USC Gould professor tackles AI’s legal future at Harvard

Law and Business Professor D. Daniel Sokol is a visiting scholar this fall in the Platform Laboratory at the Digital Data Design Institute

Read More of Bridging coasts and codes: USC Gould professor tackles AI’s legal future at Harvard
Housing Law and Policy Clinic and partners win with federal court ruling that preserves key tenant protections

Housing Law and Policy Clinic and partners win with federal court ruling that preserves key tenant protections

Judge’s ruling preserves key housing laws as HLPC, partners continue defending the city’s tenant protections on appeal

Read More of Housing Law and Policy Clinic and partners win with federal court ruling that preserves key tenant protections
Research Spotlight: When AI takes the wheel, who’s responsible?
Professor Greg Keating stands in front of a self-driving car and looks off into the distance.

Research Spotlight: When AI takes the wheel, who’s responsible?

USC Gould Professor Gregory Keating explores the fundamental mismatch between human-centered liability laws and autonomous vehicles

Read More of Research Spotlight: When AI takes the wheel, who’s responsible?

In the News

Recent Faculty Scholarship

  • “When It Comes to Electoral Disputes, State Justices are Less Reliable GOP Allies than U.S. Supreme Court Justices — and That's the "Problem" (even a Modified Version of) the Independent State Legislature Claim Hopes to Solve” (with Lee Epstein and Michael Nelson), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (accepted August 2023, forthcoming 2024).
    October 18, 2023
  • "Elaborations and denials in children’s responses to yes-no any/some questions in forensic interviews" (with Szojka, Z.A., Henderson, H.M., Hur, J., and Siepmann, H.) Child Maltreatment (2023).

    September 11, 2023
  • "Are Parents Fiduciaries," 42 Law and Philosophy 431 (2023).

    September 11, 2023

Legal Resources

USC Gould School of Law professors are not available to offer legal advice to members of the public. Public resources may be available at the following organizations, among others:

  • Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
  • Smart Law
  • Public Counsel
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association