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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.

May 2023

Awards and Honors

  • Robin Craig

    Robin Craig's co-authored article with J.B. Ruhl, "4°C," Minnesota Law Review (Dec. 2021), was voted the top environmental law review article of 2021-2022 in the Land Use and Environmental Law Review annual peer voting.

Publications

  • Robin Craig

    "There Is More to the Clean Water Act than Waters of the United States: A Holistic Jurisdictional Approach to the Section 402 and Section 404 Permit Programs," 73:2 Case Western Law Review 349-409 (Symposium 2022, published May 2023).

  • Felipe Jiménez

    "Justifying Private Law," Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume II (edited by John Oberdiek and Paul Miller) (2023).

  • Gregory Keating

    Tort and Accident Law, 5th Edition, Gregory Keating (editor), Keeton et al., (West, May 2023).

Acceptances

  • Robin Craig

    "Did Sackett Bring Clarity to 'Waters of the United States'?," 54:6 Trends (forthcoming July/August 2023) (accepted May 31, 2023).

Presentations/Lectures/Workshops

  • Jonathan Barnett

    “An Unconventional View of Intellectual Property,” keynote address at "The Importance of the Innovation Ecosystem", hosted by Duke University, Hudson Institute, and Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington D.C., May 31, 2023.

  • Robin Craig

    “Marine Biodiversity: Trends, Targets, and the BBNJ,” Eighth Annual SRP Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, May 12, 2023.

  • Robin Craig

    "Water Quality Trading and Nitrogen," MTS/Ocean Exchange 2023 Webinar Series: Detect, Capture, and Sequester: Pathways to Achieve Climate Goals - Nitrogen, May 10, 2023. 

  • Robin Craig

    "Governing Shifting Species and Changing Ecosystems: What role Might Ecological Grief Play?," keynote address at the Species on the Move 2023 International Conference, Bonito Springs, Florida, on May 19, 2023.

  • Felipe Jiménez

    "Legality and Commitment," ITAM Legal Theory Workshop.

Other

  • Jonathan Barnett

    "The Antitrust Assault on the Startup Economy," The Hill, May 11, 2023 (reproduced in RealClearMarkets).

  • Robin Craig

    Robin Craig's and Jeff McCarthy's edited volume Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean (University of Utah Press 2023) was featured as one of the Top 20 Spring Reads in Food Tank: The Think Tank for Food. The editors summarize: "With contributions from a broad range of experts, this volume is a must-read for anyone seeking to better understand the complex issues facing the world’s oceans today."

  • Robin Craig

    Robin Craig was commissioned by The Conversation to cover the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming oral argument and decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. This case involves the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act but may also overturn Chevron deference to federal agencies and/or interfere with the ability of federal agencies to require regulated entities to pay for compliance monitoring.

  • Robin Craig

    "Tribal Water Rights and Tribal Health: the Klamath Tribes and the Navajo Nation During the Covid-19 Pandemic," 16 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 35 (published 2023), was summarized and promoted on the Race, Racism, and the Law website run by Professor Vernellia Randall, University of Dayton School of Law.

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

LLM Guide
June 5, 2023
Re: USC Gould School of Law

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RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Robin Craig
May, 2023

"Did Sackett Bring Clarity to 'Waters of the United States'?," 54:6 Trends (forthcoming July/August 2023) (accepted May 31, 2023).

Robin Craig
May, 2023

"Tribal Water Rights and Tribal Health: the Klamath Tribes and the Navajo Nation During the Covid-19 Pandemic," 16 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 35 (published 2023), was summarized and promoted on the Race, Racism, and the Law website run by Professor Vernellia Randall, University of Dayton School of Law.

Robin Craig
May, 2023

"Governing Shifting Species and Changing Ecosystems: What role Might Ecological Grief Play?," keynote address at the Species on the Move 2023 International Conference, Bonito Springs, Florida, on May 19, 2023.