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About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 115-year history and reputation for academic excellence. We are located on the beautiful 228-acre USC University Park Campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles.
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Academics
Learn about our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and specialized areas.
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Admissions
USC Gould helps prepare you for a stellar legal career. You can pursue a JD degree, one of our numerous graduate and international offerings, or an online degree or certificate.
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Students
Participate in an unparalleled learning experience with diversity of people and thought. Get involved in the law school community and participate in activities that enhance your studies.
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Careers
We work closely with students, graduates and employers to support successful career goals and outcomes. Our overall placement rate is consistently strong, with 94 percent of our JD class employed within 10 months after graduation.
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Faculty
Our faculty is distinguished for its scholarship, as well as for its commitment to teaching. Our 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio creates an intimate and collegial learning environment.
- Alumni and Giving
Alumni and Giving
The global Trojan network of more than 10,000 law alumni and donors include recognized leaders in numerous fields who are deeply committed to supporting student and law school success.
Jean Lantz Reisz
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Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
Email: jreisz@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: August 28, 2019
Jean Reisz teaches the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic, the Immigration Detention and Appellate Clinic and the Legal Profession course. Under her supervision, second- and third-year law students enrolled in the clinics represent individuals seeking relief from removal in the form of asylum, withholding and relief under the Convention Against Torture in proceedings before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Clinic students also represent clients in other types of cases, including affirmative asylum cases, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) immigrant visa petitions and crime victim visas (U visa status petitions). Students in the Detention and Appellate Clinic also represent detained immigrants in habeas corpus petitions before the U.S. District Court.
Reisz is also the co-director in the Immigrant Legal Assistance Center at the USC Gould School of Law which provides free legal assistance to USC students, faculty, staff and their families, in connection with immigration related issues including obtaining DACA, Permanent Residence and U.S. Citizenship.
Reisz was a trial attorney for six years at the Los Angeles County Public Defender and Alternate Public Defender where she handled misdemeanor and felony cases in downtown Los Angeles and Compton. Prior to joining USC Gould, Reisz was a senior associate at Archer Norris, PLC, where she handled products liability, and wrongful death cases. Reisz joined USC Gould in 2014 as the Audrey Irmas Clinical Teaching Fellow, a position she held for three years. Reisz graduated from USC Gould School of Law.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
National Public Radio
June 2, 2020
Re: Jody David Armour
Jody Armour was interviewed about how protests have changed since the protests following the acquittal of four police officers in 1992 for the Rodney King beating. "My sense of where the protests can go from here, hopefully will go from here, is we’ll have a serious reckoning with the racial injustice that has provoked and continues to provoke these kinds of eruptions," he said. Armour was also quoted about the subject in New York Times, NBC Los Angeles and KCRW Press Play.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Ariela Gross
April, 2020
Ariela Gross was elected as a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, April 30, 2020.
Hannah Garry
April, 2020
Hannah Garry participated as an invited expert on the UCLA-ASIL Task Force round table discussion on "Policy Options for US Engagement with the International Criminal Court.”
Michael Simkovic
April, 2020
Michael Simkovic wrote an opinion piece, “INSIGHT: Less Than 8% of Virus Stimulus Could Go to Health System,” published on Bloomberg Law on April 14, 2020.
