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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 School of Law
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USC Gould faculty is committed to scholarship, publishing articles in a variety of journals and reviews. Faculty contributions to scholarship and research are listed on their individual directory pages, on bepress, HeinOnline and Google Scholar.
Faculty members also present their work at conferences and symposiums and serve on panel discussions and at workshops. Below is a list of their endeavors.
March 2022
Publications
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Robin Craig
“How Law Structures Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making: A Comparative Approach” (with Sanne Akerboom), Environmental Policy and Governance (2022).
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Robin Craig
“Adapting to a 4°C World” (with Karrigan Börk, Karen Bradshaw, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Sarah Fox, Josh Galperin, Keith Hirokawa, Shi-Ling Hsu, Katrina Kuh, Kevin Lynch, Michele Okoh, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman, David Takacs, and Clifford J. Villa), 52 Environmental Law Reporter (2022).
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Causal indicators for assessing the truthfulness of child speech in forensic interviews” (with Zane Durante, Victor Ardulov, Manoj Kumar, Jennifer Gongola, & Shrikanth Narayanan), 71 Computer Speech & Language (2022).
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Marcela Prieto
“Transitional Justice in the 21st Century: Its History, Challenges, and Effectiveness” (with David Tolbert) in Oxford Handbook of Atrocity edited by B. Hola, H. Nyseth Brehm & M. Weerdesteijn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Abby K. Wood
“Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility” (with Christopher S. Elmendorf, Douglas M. Spencer, Nicholas G. Napolio), American Politics Research (2022).
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Abby K. Wood
“Voters Use Campaign Finance Transparency and Compliance Information,” Political Behavior (2022).
Acceptances
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Jonathan Barnett
"The Economic Case Against Licensing Negotiation Groups in the Internet of Things," Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.
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Robin Craig
“The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics.
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Jeesoo Nam
"Lenity and the Meaning of Statutes," Southern California Law Review.
Presentations/Lectures/Workshops
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Robin Craig
"How Recreation Became Part of the Public Trust Doctrine," University of Oregon School of Law's Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Virtual, Eugene, OR.
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Robin Craig
"Tribal Water Rights and Tribal Health: The Klamath Tribes and the Navajo Nation During the COVID-19 Pandemic," St. Louis University School of Law's Center for Health Law Studies' 34th Annual Health Law Symposium, Environmental Justice: At the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health, Virtual, St. Louis, MO.
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Robin Craig
“Separating Section 402 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act for Purposes of Assessing WOTUS: Leveraging Maui County,” Environmental Law Workshop, Virtual, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD.
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Robin Craig
“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.
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Robin Craig
"Saltwater Sovereignty: Tribal Marine Management Authority Along the Pacific Coast.” Online Environmental Law Workshop. University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD.
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Robin Craig
“Promoting ‘Climate Change+’ Industries Through the Administrative State: The Case of Marine Aquaculture,” Environmental Law Workshop, Virtual, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA.
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Robin Craig
“The Clean Water Act and the Ocean: An Unfulfilled Promise,” 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act, Eighth Annual Symposium of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Law, Virtual.
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Robin Craig
“A Broader Look at the Public Trust Doctrine,” 27th Annual Tulane Environmental Law & Policy Summit: Environmental Litigation, Environmental & Energy Law Society, Public Trust Doctrine and Environmental Law, Virtual, Tulane Law School.
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Hannah R. Garry
"Closing Impunity Gap(s): Mixed Claims Commissions and Pluralist Global Justice for Atrocity Crimes," University of Oslo Faculty of Law PluriCourts Centre Workshop, Virtual, Oslo, Norway.
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Ariela Gross
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
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Ariela Gross
“The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and The Constitution,” Centre d' Études Nord-Américaines at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.
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Felipe Jiménez
“Legality, Legal Obligation, and Commitment,” University of Toronto, Legal Theory Workshop, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Felipe Jiménez
“Legality, Legal Obligation, and Commitment,” Law and Philosophy Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Felipe Jiménez
"Legality, Legal Obligation, and Commitment." UCLA Legal Theory Workshop, Los Angeles, CA.
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Daniel Klerman
“Comment on Choi, Erickson, & Pritchard, ‘Coalitions among Plaintiffs’ Attorneys in Securities Class Actions’,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Virtual, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Daniel Klerman
“An Experimental Investigation into the Bias Rationale for Federal Diversity Jurisdiction” (with Jonathan Nash), Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Virtual, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Asset Managers as Regulators,” UCLA-Bucerius Corporate Law Workshop, Los Angeles, CA.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Asset Managers as Regulators,” George Mason Law School Larry Ribstein Law and Economics Workshop, Arlington, VA.
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Dorothy S. Lund
“Asset Managers as Regulators,” UC Berkeley Law Faculty Workshop, Berkeley, CA.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Disclosure Among Child Abuse Victims” (with K. London and M. Eisen), Fourth Zoom Psychology and Law Symposium: Children in Legal Settings, Maastrict University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
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Thomas D. Lyon
“Interviewing Children,” New Jersey Children in Court Virtual Education Conference.
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Camille Gear Rich
“No More Boxes to Check: Imagining The Anti-Racist Law Firm,” NALP Annual Education Conference, New Orleans, LA.
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D. Daniel Sokol
“A Subject-Matter Specific Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the ‘Summary Judgment Trilogy,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Virtual, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Nomi Stolzenberg
“Commentary on ‘The Dialectics of Cooptation and Resistance in State Legal Pluralism’,” Conference on Rethinking Legal Pluralism, USC Center for Law History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA.
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Nomi Stolzenberg
“A Remarkable Tale of Law, Politics, and Religion: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Town in Upstate New York,” Schemel Forum, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA.
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Nomi Stolzenberg
“American Shtetl: The making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York,” Mytelka Memorial Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
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Nomi Stolzenberg
“Only in America,” Princeton University Center for Human Values, Princeton, NJ.
Other
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig recorded a podcast for the Environmental Law Institute entitled "Sea Level Rise and the Law" on March 31, 2022.
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig participated on a panel discussion on Sackett v. United States and West Virginia v. EPA, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium for the George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C.
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig has been hired by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which enforces the environmental provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (NAFTA's replacement, in effect 2020) to help to evaluate Oceana's claims that the U.S. is violating its obligations to protect the critically endangered Northern right whale.
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Robin Craig
Robin Craig participated on a panel discussion on "Citizen Suits, Separation of Powers, and the Future of the Supreme Court's Standing Jurisprudence," The Federalist Society webinar, Washington, D.C.
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Erik Hovenkamp
“Antitrust needs reform, but these two proposed bills miss the mark” (with D. Daniel Sokol), The Hill, March 21, 2022.
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D. Daniel Sokol
“Antitrust needs reform, but these two proposed bills miss the mark” (with Erik Hovenkamp), The Hill, March 21, 2022.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Law 360
May 20, 2022
Re: Thomas Lenz
Thomas Lenz was quoted in a story about Apple Store union organizers hoping to be as successful in unionizing as Starbucks workers. He said employers need to be aware of how fast news travels between different store locations. "It is completely foreseeable that employees in vastly different locations will be in touch and tracking what's going on and perhaps trying to coordinate their efforts in the best way to get a win if they're seeking representation," Lenz said. Story is behind paywall.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Ariela Gross
March, 2022
“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Camille Gear Rich
March, 2022
“No More Boxes to Check: Imagining The Anti-Racist Law Firm,” NALP Annual Education Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Thomas D. Lyon
March, 2022
“Disclosure Among Child Abuse Victims” (with K. London and M. Eisen), Fourth Zoom Psychology and Law Symposium: Children in Legal Settings, Maastrict University, Maastricht, Netherlands.