Law School recruits new faculty members

USC Law has recruited three prominent female professors and a professor from the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzlia, Israel, to its faculty, school officials announced last week.

The new faculty members are: Catherine Fisk, a professor of law and the William M. Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School; Elizabeth Garrett, a professor of law at the University of Chicago; Gillian Hadfield, formerly a professor of law at the University of Toronto and UC Berkeley School of Law; and Andrei Marmor, a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center.

A graduate of UC Berkely's Boalt Hall, Fisk specializes in employment law, labor law, civil procedure and employment discrimination. She has been a visiting professor at USC Laws of Duke University, UCLA and the University of Wisconsin, and has worked as an appellate attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Garrett, who visited USC Law last fall, is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1995, serving as deputy dean for academic affairs from 1999 to 2001. Her research focuses on the legislative process, statutory interpretation, the federal budget process and administrative law.

A graduate of Stanford Law School, Hadfield specializes in contracts, law and economics, work and gender, and organizational theory. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and has served as an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Columbia Law School and Cornell Law School. She is the author of The Second Wave of Law and Economics, with Megan Richardson, (Federation Press, 1999).

Marmor, who also visited USC Law School last fall, has taught at the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzlia since September 2000. Previously, he was on the faculty of law at Tel Aviv University, where he served as chair of the LL.M. program. He specializes in law and philosophy and legal theory, and is the author of Positive Law & Objective Values (Oxford University Press, 2001). He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University.

"We are very excited and proud to have such a distinguished group of scholars joining our faculty," said Dean Matthew Spitzer. "Their contributions will surely enhance the high quality of education and scholarship at USC Law School."