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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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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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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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Jill Feeney
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 6, 2022
Hon. Jill Feeney was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. in 2018. She presided over a criminal court for three years and recently moved to a civil courtroom.
Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Feeney worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for 21 years in Brooklyn, New York, and in Los Angeles. As a prosecutor, Judge Feeney primarily focused on fraud cases, including ponzi schemes, tax evasion and money laundering.
Prior to her career at the U.S. Department of Justice, Judge Feeney worked for four years as a litigation associate at Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C. Judge Feeney also served as a law clerk to the Hon. William H. Yohn, Jr., of the United States District Court in Philadelphia, and as an assistant to then Special Counsel Mary McLaughlin at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information.
She earned her JD from Yale Law School and BA from the College of William and Mary.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
USA Today
November 28, 2022
Re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks was interviewed about what schizophrenia really is. "A common misconception is that we're unable to care for ourselves and that's not true," she said. "For some people it is, but not for all of us. We can have relationships –romantic and friendships. But we often don't see that (in the media) because of the emphasis on sensationalism and 'othering' us."
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Jonathan Barnett
November, 2022
Letter from Former Judges and Government Officials, Legal Academics, and Economists to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter on Standard-Essential Patents and Patent Pools (co-lead author with Adam Mossoff), Nov. 30, 2022.
Robin Craig
November, 2022
The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center featured Re-Envisiong the Anthropocene Ocean (University of Utah Press, forthcoming), edited by Robin Kundis Craig with Jeffrey M. McCarthy.
Robin Craig
November, 2022
"4°C," 106 Minnesota Law Review 191 (Nov. 2021), co-authored with J.B. Ruh, was selected as one of the top 5 environmental, natural resources, and energy law articles for 2021-2022 through the Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt Law School review process, for inclusion in the 16th Annual Environmental Law and Policy Review.
