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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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Barry Kaye
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
Email: bkaye@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: October 5, 2020
Barry Kaye teaches Corporate Governance, as well as Negotiation Theory and Application at the USC Gould School of Law. He has also supervised a course on Directed Research and has lectured at the USC Summer Law and English (SLE) program for LLM students. Prior to teaching at USC, Kaye taught in the business law department at UC Berkeley Law. Kaye’s entrepreneurial character and versatile skill set have allowed him to move between law and business and weave a unique private practice. His professional experience and expertise includes real estate, corporate formation and governance and finance.
After graduating from law school, Kaye clerked for U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk in Los Angeles and then briefly for U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima who was then sitting by designation on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. He worked behind the scenes on copyright and trademark infringement cases along with securities, criminal, insurance coverage and a host of other federal matters. Kaye completed a BA degree at Yeshiva University in 1990 and his JD at Cardozo School of Law in 1994.
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Robin Craig
March, 2022
"Saltwater Sovereignty: Tribal Marine Management Authority Along the Pacific Coast.” Online Environmental Law Workshop. University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD.
Robin Craig
March, 2022
Robin Craig recorded a podcast for the Environmental Law Institute entitled "Sea Level Rise and the Law" on March 31, 2022.
Daniel Klerman
March, 2022
“Comment on Choi, Erickson, & Pritchard, ‘Coalitions among Plaintiffs’ Attorneys in Securities Class Actions’,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Virtual, Toronto, ON, Canada.