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About USC Gould
USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 120-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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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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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.
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Caroline Vincent
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 8, 2020
Caroline Vincent is recognized as a pioneer in the mediation field. Her three decades of experience include community mediation, public policy and environmental mediation, and commercial mediation and arbitration. She has mediated and arbitrated more than 2,500 matters during her career. She is currently a neutral affiliated with ADR Services Inc. Vincent is a frequent lecturer and writer on mediation advocacy and ethics, and has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer in ADR since 2014, as well as recognized as a top woman lawyer.
She earned her JD from the USC Gould School of Law and her BA from Tulane University. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Dispute Resolution at USC Gould. She developed and taught the inaugural class in ADR Ethics and currently serves as a trainer and supervisor of the Advanced Mediation Clinic where she focuses on employment mediation including cases mediated for EEOC and DFEH.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Financial Times
August 9, 2022
Re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein wrote an op-ed about how pro-business the Roberts Court is. "Its pro-business positions do not match up with public opinion," he wrote. "If anything — and as we have seen this past term with abortion and gun rights — this Court seems willing to buck public opinion."
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
D. Daniel Sokol
May, 2022
“The UK Can Be Start-Up Nation 2.0,” Kings College, United Kingdom.
D. Daniel Sokol
May, 2022
"The UK Can Be Start-Up Nation 2.0 if it Regulates Wisely," Op-Ed in NASDAQ, May 2, 2022.
Dorothy S. Lund
May, 2022
"Asset Managers as Regulators," University of Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop.