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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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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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Faculty Workshops and Conferences
USC Gould School of Law
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Faculty Workshops
Location: USC Gould School of Law, Rm. 130 (unless otherwise stated)
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., every other Thursday (unless otherwise stated)
Fall 2021
- September 23- 23, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Sharon Jacobs (Colorado)
Title: “Structural Deregulation”
- September 30, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Veronica Martinez (Notre Dame)
Title: “Monitors as Informers”
- October 07, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Eleanor Wilking (Cornell)
Title: “Does it matter who remits? Evidence from U.S. states' Voluntary Collection Agreements”
- October 14, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Rick Hasen (UCI)
Title: “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons our Politics and How to Cure it”
- November 04, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Lee Epstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
Title: "The Ever-Evolving Field of Judicial Behavior"
- November 11, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC)
Title: “Shareholders as Regulators”
Commentator: Jordan Barry
- November 18, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt)
Title: "TBA"
- December 02- 10, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Adam Badawi (UC Berkeley)
Title: “Evolutionary Learning in Complex Contracts”
- December 06, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433 - In person and via zoom) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Karen Bradshaw (Arizona)
Title: “Using Collaborative Governance to Create More Equitable and Inclusive Environmental Law”
Spring 2022
- January 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing (only)) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Jeesoo Nam (USC)
Title: "Lenity and the Meaning of Statutes”
Moderator: Scott Altman (USC)
- January 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI)
Title: "Complicit Bias"
- February 10, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Aziza Ahmed (UCI)
Title: “Risk and Rage: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS”
- February 24, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433 and Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University)
Title: “Revisiting the ‘Abuse Excuse’ in the Age of Black Lives Matter”
Co-sponsored with CLHC & Nova Forum.
- March 24, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maggie Blackhawk (NYU)
Title: “On Power and the Law”
- April 07, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433 and Via Zoom) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Felipe Jimenez (USC)
Title: “Private Rights as Legal Rights”
- April 21, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Sara Greene (Duke)
Title: "TBA"
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Bloomberg Government
June 22, 2022
Re: Franita Tolson
Franita Tolson was interviewed about how federal lawsuits from North Carolina, Alabama, and Arkansas test the limits of the Voting Rights Act, the boundaries of state government authority, and the ability of voting rights groups to file racial gerrymandering cases. “These doctrines and approaches in these cases fundamentally reset the rules of the game,” she said. “In 2030 we will live in a completely different world than we lived in in 2020, and 2020 was not favorable to minority voters at all.”
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
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.
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.
Robin Craig
March, 2022
“Who’s on First? The Mind-Blowing Attempt to Conceptualize Deference in the Midst of Decision Delays and Agency Repeals,” J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium for the George Washington University School of Law, Virtual, Washington, D.C.