Professorships recognize faculty excellence

Three faculty members at USC Law accepted named professorships during a February installation ceremony. Jody Armour was named the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law; Mary Dudziak was named the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law and History; and Greg Keating was named the William T. Dalessi Professor of Law.

The professorships honor the generosity of donors to USC Law and recognize excellence in faculty research, scholarship and teaching.

Jody D. Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, has been a member of the USC law faculty since 1995. An internationally respected expert in race issues, Professor Armour studies the intersection of race and legal decision making as well as torts and tort reform movements. A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, Professor Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture. He has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review. His book, Negrophobia & Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press, 1997), received the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

Professor Armour holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a juris doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. He is a former associate of Morrison & Foerster and taught at Boalt Hall and the University of Pittsburgh before joining the USC Law faculty in 1995 as associate professor. At USC Law, Professor Armour teaches Torts, Enterprise Liability, Stereotypes and the Law, and a seminar on Prejudice and the Rule of Law.

Mary L. Dudziak is the inaugural Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law and History. A renowned legal historian, Professor Dudziak specializes in the relationship between international affairs and domestic law and politics. In 2001, Professor Dudziak published Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press), a book widely hailed as a groundbreaking examination of how foreign affairs influenced the course of civil rights policy in the United States. She also has published scholarly articles in numerous legal and historical journals. She is the 2002 recipient of USC’s Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award.

Professor Dudziak holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a J.D. and an M.A., M. Phil and Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. She clerked for Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and taught at the University of Iowa before joining USC in 1998 as professor of law. She teaches Constitutional Law, Procedure, Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights in U.S. History, The Constitution in the 20th Century, and seminars on Law and Social Change in Post-War America and Globalism and U.S. History.

Gregory C. Keating, William T. Dalessi Professor of Law, has been a member of the USC law faculty since 1990. His scholarship focuses on torts and legal theory. An expert in liability issues, Professor Keating has published numerous articles in journals including Southern California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Michigan Law Review, among others. In 1998, he co-wrote Cases and Materials on Tort and Accident Law, 3rd Ed. (West Group). His paper "A Social Contract Conception of the Tort Law of Accidents" was published in Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and his paper "Irreparable Injury and Extraordinary Precaution" is forthcoming in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (Tel Aviv, 2002).

Professor Keating holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, a master’s degree in politics from Princeton University, a juris doctorate from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. He was an associate with Foley, Hoag & Eliot and Palmer & Dodge, both of Boston, before joining the USC law faculty in 1990 as assistant professor. He teaches Torts, Product Liability, Tort Theory, Legal Profession, and Jurisprudence.