Media Relations
The USC Law public relations office is available to help members of the news media find faculty experts and other information about USC Law. For assistance, please contact the director of media relations:
Gilien Silsby213-740-9690 work
213-500-8673 mobile
gsilsby@law.usc.edu
Scott Bice
Robert C. Packard Professor of Law
Specialization: Legal expert specializing in torts, medical malpractice and judicial elections, independence and accountability
Areas of Expertise:
- judicial independence and accountability, legal education issues, torts, theories of recovery for personal injury, apportionment of liability, managed care and medial malpractice, judicial elections,
Alexander Capron
University Professor, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, and Professor of Law and Medicine
Specialization:
Areas of Expertise:
- bioethics, health care policy, genetic screening and counseling, ethical and legal aspects, medical, ethical, legal and economic issues in the care of seriously ill patients, definition of death, allocation of scarce medical resources, ethical and policy issues in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, cloning of human beings, protection of research subjects, relationship between law and medicine, patients' rights, reproductive technology, including surgery, access to healthcare, medical malpractice and liability, organ transplantation, torts
Elizabeth Garrett
Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy
Specialization: Law expert specializing in California politics, national elections, the federal budget, initiatives and voting and campaign finance. Can comment on President Bush's approval ratings.
Areas of Expertise:
- California politics, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California budget issues, California's role in national politics, voter activism, presidential elections (George W. Bush and John Kerry), elections, referendums and initiatives, term limits, recall elections, ballot issues, voter-driven laws and legislation, petitions and petition drives, city council procedures, local government legal issues, local governments, campaign finance, McCain-Feingold Bill (campaign finance reform, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act), Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules, law and politics, congressional legislative process, political parties, budget process, Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, administrative law,