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
Matthew Spitzer
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Law and Social Science at California Institute of Technology
Specialization: Media law specialist
Areas of Expertise:
- law and economics, federal broadcasting law, torts, telecommunications policy, cable television rates, broadcast media law, content control in broadcasting, Internet and new media law, administrative law
Charles Whitebread
George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law
Specialization: Criminal law expert specializing in the U.S. Supreme Court, hate crimes, police misconduct and juvenile justice
Areas of Expertise:
- legal protection against hate crimes, legal ramifications of violence against lesbians and gays, unconstitutionality of hate crime statutes, criminal law, U.S. Supreme Court, privacy rights, rights of children, entrapment defense, police misconduct, juvenile justice, judicial education, criminal procedure, wills and trust, judicial politics
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,
