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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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Nicholas Raichart
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 3, 2020
Nicholas Raichart has been a practicing organizational ombudsman for more than five years at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). As part of his practice, he provides dispute resolution and conflict coaching services to all members of the UCSD campus and health system. Raichart routinely addresses such issues as workplace hostility and harassment, supervisor-supervisee concerns, academic disputes and authorship conflicts, and intra- and inter-group relationships. As a member of UCSD’s Restorative Justice and Campus Safety and Security Advisory Committees, Raichart helps identify trends and patterns to bring early resolution to issues of heightened sensitivity. Additionally, he regularly conducts conflict literacy training to students, staff, and academic appointees.
Raichart actively works with his colleagues to help grow the organizational ombuds field, including serving as the International Ombudsman Association (IOA) Sponsorship Committee Chair.
Raichart obtained his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, as well as his Master of Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in 2008. He is a member of the International Ombudsman Association and the California Bar Association.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
September 25, 2023
Re: Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett wrote an op-ed piece, based on his forthcoming paper to be published in the University of Chicago Business Law Review, about antitrust regulations and the effects it has on merger review processes. "This inquiry raises serious concerns that legislators and regulators have embarked on a course of action that has an insufficient factual foundation in the digital markets on which competition policymakers have focused," Barnett wrote.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Jonathan Barnett
August, 2023
"Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole in the Age of Populist Antitrust," University of Chicago Business Law Review.
Robin Craig
August, 2023
Robin Craig's article, "The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes," 21 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1-60 (July 2022), was featured in The Regulatory Review on August 31, 2023.
Edward McCaffery
August, 2023
"The Paradox of Taxing the Rich," Florida Tax Review (Forthcoming, Fall 2023).