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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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Learn about our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and specialized areas.
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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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USC Gould School of Law
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- CENTER FOR LAW, HISTORY AND CULTURE (CLHC)
- CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (CTLB)
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- PACIFIC CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS
- SAKS INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS
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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)
Spring 2023
- December 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Olatunde Johnson (Columbia)
Title: "The Missing Half: Revisiting Monetary Remedies to Address Segregation"
- January 26, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Robin Craig (USC)
Title: “Eco-Necrotourism and Public Land Management: Last Chance Tourism, Ecological Grief, and the World's Disappearing Natural Wonders”
- February 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Erin Miller (USC)
Title: “Quasi-State Agents in First Amendment Doctrine”
Commentator: Rebecca Brown
- April 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Angel Diaz (Visiting assistant professor at USC)
Title: “Online Racialization and the Myth of Colorblind Content Policy”
Fall 2022
- August 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maya Sen (Harvard Kennedy School)
Title: “The ‘Old Party Out’ Theory Certiorari”
- September 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Maeve Glass (Columbia Law School)
Title: “Killing Precedent: The Slaughterhouse Constitution.”
Jointly with CLHC.
- September 08, 12:10 PM - 1:14 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould)
Title: “Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save too Little, Borrow too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?”
Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould
- September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: David Landau (Florida State Univ. School of Law)
Title: “Restorative Constitutionalism”
- September 29, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Brad Wendel (Cornell)
Title: “Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Criticism, Accountability, and Regret.”
- October 06, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law)
Title: “The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future”
- October 13, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Brandon Garrett (Duke) and Nicholas Scurich (UCI)
Title: “Judging Firearms Evidence.”
- October 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Mark Fenster (Florida)
Title: “How Reputational NDAs Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach).”
Jointly with CLHC
- October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University)
Title: "HAPPY: How China Regulates Tech and Beyond"
- October 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
Title: "A Right to Adopt and Parental Licensing"
- November 02, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Kate Klonick (St. John's Univ. School of Law)
Title: “Big Speech”
- November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI)
Title: "Involuntary Servitude: Pregnancy, Abortion, and The Thirteenth Amendment""
- November 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Amna Akbar (Ohio State University)
Title: "TBA"
- November 28, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Colleen Chien (Santa Clara)
Title: "TBA"
- December 08, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)
Speaker: Sarah Mayeux (Vanderbilt)
Title: "TBA"
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Daily Trojan
March 28, 2023
Re: Deepika Sharma
Professor Deepika Sharma discussed how the HLPC has been educating students on tenants' rights and protections. “The way the law works in California, you could have a rent increase of 40% one day,” Sharma said. “If that’s the case … at the very least you’ll qualify for a relocation … These ‘just cause’ measures are going to apply and help, I think the last estimate was over 300,000 units in the city.”
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Robin Craig
February, 2023
"Legal Dimensions of Coastal Adaptation Planning," AdaptLA webinar, USC Sea Grant, February 23, 2023.
Robin Craig
February, 2023
“Legal Aspects of Coastal Adaptation,” Online Public Lecture, AdaptLA Lecture Series, USC Sea Grant, February 23, 2023.
Felipe Jiménez
February, 2023
Comments on Joanna Langille, "The Subjects of Tort Law, North American Workshop of Private Law Theory," UCLA School of Law.
