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SCholarship & Research – Fall/Winter 2025

A selection of recent scholarly work and honors of USC Gould faculty

December 9, 2025 By USC Gould School of Law
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Select Recent Publications

Terry Allen
Not Separate but Still Unequal
New York University Law Review (2025)

Scott Altman
Hiring and Firing Based on Political Views
Southern California Law Review (Forthcoming)

Jessica Clarke
Scrutinizing Sex
University of Chicago Law Review (2025)

David Cruz
Reestablishment of Religion and LGBTQ Rights
UCLA Law Review Discourse (2025)

Matteo Godi
Section 1983: A Strict Liability Statutory Tort
California Law Review (Forthcoming)

Aya Gruber
Law and Disorder: Why Police Violence Thrives Despite Protests
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2025)

Sofia Gruskin (with A. Ahmed and A. Yamin)
Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights: Advances & Setbacks
Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2025)

Mugambi Jouet
Projecting the Past into the Future of Constitutionalism: History, Atemporality, and American Society
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online (2025)

Ariel Jurow Kleiman
Progressive User Fees
New York University Law Review (Forthcoming)

Tomer Kenneth
In Defense of Factual Precedents
University of Chicago Law Review (Forthcoming)

Daniel Klerman (with Eric Helland)
Contingent Fees and Access to Justice
Washington University Law Review Online (2025)

Elyn R. Saks (with Kenneth Wells, Juanita Booker-Vaughns and Tiffany Dzou)
Formative Evaluation of Post-Opera Live Discussion of the Center Cannot Hold Part 2 and Resilience Workshop
Community Mental Health Journal (2025)

Michael Simkovic (with Mark J. Roe)
Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and Valuation Uncertainty in Bankruptcy
University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2025)

Dan Simon
The Adversarial Bias
Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2025)

Angela Zhang
The Promise and Perils of China’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Columbia Journal of Translational Law (2025)

To view more articles, awards and presentations, visit: gould.usc.edu/faculty/scholarship/

Awards & Notes

Felipe Jimenez won the Article Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Jurisprudence, in recognition of his paper, “Legality and Commitment” (2025), which was published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. This prestigious national award honors an exceptional philosophical work of legal scholarship, and it will be presented at the AALS Annual Meeting in January.

Jonathan Barnett delivered a talk to officials at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on the critical role of patents in fueling innovation, especially for independent inventors, start-ups and small businesses. The talk mirrored the message in his book, The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property, published by Oxford University Press.

In addition, the 2025 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards selected Barnett’s paper, “’Killer Acquisitions’ Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole in the Age of Populist Antitrust,” published in the University of Chicago Business Law Review, as the winning Academic Article in the Mergers category.

Daniel Sokol won best article for Best Antitrust Publication of Merger Enforcement from the American Antitrust Institute, for his paper, “The Decline of Coordinated Effects Enforcement and How to Reverse It” (with Sean Sullivan), published in Florida Law Review. The award was presented at the annual conference of the American Antitrust Institute in May at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Hannah Garry provided expert testimony before the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee Oct. 15 during an informational hearing on sex work-related crimes and efforts to combat human trafficking. Garry – founding director of USC Gould’s International Human Rights Clinic and faculty director of the Donna and Spencer Gilbert Global Justice and Human Rights Center – presented findings from the clinic’s 2021 report, “Over-Policing Sex Trafficking: How U.S. Law Enforcement Should Reform Operations,” which examined the effectiveness of law enforcement operations targeting sex trafficking in the U.S.

Garry was also recently elected to join the Executive Committee, Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and to serve as Co-Chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group.

Rebecca Brown was a featured speaker at the Stanford Constitution Day Lecture, which focused on the topic of “Originalist Versus Progressive Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation: Why It Matters to Democracy.”

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