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Scott Altman
“Steering, Subversion, and Parents’ Rights”
Journal of Legal Analysis (2026)
Bernadette Atuahene
“Justice Lockouts”
California Law Review (Forthcoming)
Jonathan Barnett
“Models v. Markets: Does User Inertia Explain User Conduct in the Search Ecosystem?”
ABA Antitrust Law Journal (Forthcoming)
Rebecca Brown and Lee Epstein
“Autocratic Judging”
UCLA Law Review (2026)
Jessica Clarke
“Skrmetti’s Shell Game”
UCLA Law Review (Forthcoming)
Felipe Jiménez
“Against Deregulation”
Notre Dame Law Review (Forthcoming)
Mugambi Jouet
“Abortion and American Exceptionalism”
UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review (2025)
Ariel Jurow Kleiman
“Progressive User Fees”
New York University Law Review (2026)
Daniel Klerman (with Alex Lee)
“The Selection of Disputes at Forty”
Yale Journal on Regulation (2025)
Thomas D. Lyon (with Breanne Wylie, Zsofia Szojka and Annabel Reay)
“How About Ellipsis?: Young Children’s Subject Bias in Interpreting Ambiguous ‘How About’ Questions”
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2026)
John Matsusaka
“When Do Legislators Represent Their Constituents? Evidence from Roll-Call and Referendum Votes”
The Journal of Politics (2026)
Douglas Melamed (with Erik Hovenkamp)
“Antitrust Analysis of Search Engine Defaults”
ABA Antitrust Law Journal (Forthcoming)
Erin Miller
“Unchosen Listening”
Southern California Law Review (2025)
Jeesoo Nam
“Luck Egalitarian Redistribution: What Should We Do About Addiction?”
NYU Tax Law Review (2026)
Erin Ryan
Law for the Land
Cambridge University Press, 2026
Wayne Sandholtz (with Christopher A. Whytock)
“Are Foreign Affairs (Still) Different? An Empirical Analysis of the Political Question Doctrine”
University of Chicago Law Review (Forthcoming)
Elyn Saks (with Fitore Hyseni, Jonathan G. Martinis, Fatma Altunkol Wise, Nanette J. Goodman, and Peter Blanck)
“‘I Want to Be Interdependent’: An Exploratory Study on the Use of Supported Decision-Making for People with Serious Mental Illness”
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2026)
Michael Simkovic (with Francesco Trebbi and Miao Ben Zhang)
“The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States”
The Review of Financial Studies (2026)
D. Daniel Sokol (with Rob Rhee)
“Control Capture and Competition”
Washington University Law Review (2026)
Angela Zhang
“Convergence”
Houston Law Review (Forthcoming)
To view more articles, awards and presentations, visit: gould.usc.edu/faculty/scholarship/
Awards & Notes
The third opera based on the journey of Professor Elyn Saks, titled The Center Cannot Hold Part 3: Beyond Recovery, was performed and livestreamed at UCLA in June. The opera is based on her widely acclaimed 2007 memoir — her journey through mental illness, her marriage, complications, and winning multiple awards at USC. Saks is the co-librettist of the opera.
Professor Nomi Stolzenberg received the 2026 James Boyd White Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. The award recognizes her wide-ranging contributions to law, religion, literature, legal history and culture.
Professor Bernadette Atuahene received Honorable Mention for the Law & Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Award for her book, Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Little, Brown & Company, 2025), in recognition of exceptional contributions to the understanding of law, society, and socio-legal processes.
Professor Jessica Clarke, a noted researcher in discrimination law, ranked among the nation’s 100 most-cited legal scholars. The 2025 analysis examined article citations over a three-year period.
Professor Robert Rasmussen was selected as one of the 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers for 2026; his fifth consecutive year of earning this accolade from Lawdragon.
Professor Tom Lyon co-edited and contributed to the Handbook on Child Witnesses: Improving Psychological Science and Legal Practice, published by the American Psychological Association.
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