{"id":1403,"date":"2023-01-15T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goulddev.usc.edu\/?page_id=1403"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:06:17","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1403\" class=\"elementor elementor-1403\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e1ab60d elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e1ab60d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-692d935\" data-id=\"692d935\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-213f976 background-white faculty-listing-content elementor-widget elementor-widget-faculty-listing elh-el faculty-listing\" data-id=\"213f976\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;title_tag&quot;:&quot;H1&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"faculty-listing.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-wrapper \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-header-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<H1 class=\"title\">\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Faculty<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/H1>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-subtitle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>USC Gould School of Law<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-filter-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xl-8 col-sm-7 mb-xs-15\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-filter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-filter-drawer type mb-xs-15\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<label data-id=\"type\" for=\"faculty-type\"><span class=\"label-text\">Type<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-fd type\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"faculty-fd-type-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"faculty-fd-type-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"faculty-type\" value=\"Faculty\" checked=\"checked\" aria-label=\"Select facutly\"> Faculty<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"faculty-fd-type-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"faculty-type\" value=\"Lecturer in Law\" aria-label=\"Select lecturer\"> Lecturer in Law<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-filter-drawer topics\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<label for=\"faculty-filter-topics\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"label-text\">Topics<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<select name=\"faculty-filter-topics\" aria-label=\"Select topic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"\">Show All<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-14\">Business Law and Economics<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-24\">Constitutional Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-25\">Criminal Justice<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-26\">Dispute Resolution<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-27\">Election Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-29\">Health Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-30\">Immigration Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-31\">International Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-857\">Law and Artificial Intelligence<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-32\">Legal History<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-33\">Legal Theory and Jurisprudence<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-34\">Media, Entertainment and Technology\u00a0Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<option value=\"cat-35\">Public Interest Law<\/option>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/select>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-sm-5 col-xl-4 mb-xs-15\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-search\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<label for=\"search-faculty-name\"><span class=\"label-text\">Search<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"search-faculty-name\" id=\"search-faculty-name\" placeholder=\"Search by Name or Keyword\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-list-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-listing-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The faculty at USC Gould is nationally recognized for scholarship in many fields, including administrative law, constitutional law, bankruptcy and corporate law, intellectual property, international law, taxation, and law and race. Our interdisciplinary focus is a longstanding strength of the school, with faculty working at the intersections of law and economics, law and history, law and philosophy, law and politics, law and psychology, and numerous other areas. Our faculty members are renowned for their significant contributions to the profession and the public. They are equally dedicated to their role as teachers and mentors for new generations of lawyers, public servants and leaders.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-fd letter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"list-inline alpha-filter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"A\">A<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"B\">B<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"C\">C<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"D\">D<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"E\">E<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"F\">F<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"G\">G<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"H\">H<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"I\">I<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"J\">J<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"K\">K<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"L\">L<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"M\">M<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"N\">N<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"O\">O<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"P\">P<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"Q\">Q<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"R\">R<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"S\">S<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"T\">T<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"U\">U<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"V\">V<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"W\">W<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"X\">X<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"Y\">Y<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"list-inline-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"filter-by-alpha-action\" data-id=\"Z\">Z<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"faculty-list-outer\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<script language=\"javascript\">\n(function ($) {\n\n\tvar alphaProfessors = [];\n\tvar alphaProfResult = [];\n\tvar faculty_options = [];\n\tvar selectedAlphaFilter = [];\n\tvar searchKeywordVal = '';\n\t\n\tfunction closeFdDrawer() {\n\t\t$('.faculty-filter-drawer-wrapper').removeClass('open');\n\t\t$('body').removeClass('overflow-hidden');\n\t}\n\t\n\tfunction renderFacultyIndy(eachProf) {\n\t\t\/\/console.log('eachProf', eachProf);\n\t\tvar 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{\n\t\tvar facultyHtml = '';\n\t\t\/*var alphaKeys = Object.keys(alphaProfessors).sort();\n\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < alphaKeys.length; i++ ) {\n\t\t\tfacultyHtml += renderFacultyAlpha(alphaProfessors[alphaKeys[i]], alphaKeys[i]);\n\t\t}*\/\n\t\tvar alphaKeys = Object.keys(alphaProfResult).sort();\n\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < alphaKeys.length; i++ ) {\n\t\t\tif(alphaProfResult[alphaKeys[i]].length) {\n\t\t\t\tfacultyHtml += renderFacultyAlpha(alphaProfResult[alphaKeys[i]], alphaKeys[i]);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t$('.faculty-list-outer').html(facultyHtml);\n\t}\n\t\n\tfunction updateAlphaFilter() {\n\t\t$('.filter-by-alpha-action').addClass('disabled');\n\t\t$('.filter-by-alpha-action').attr('aria-label', 'Remove');\n\t\tvar alphaKeys = Object.keys(alphaProfessors).sort();\n\t\t\/\/console.log('alphaKeys', alphaKeys);\n\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < alphaKeys.length; i++ ) {\n\t\t\t$('.filter-by-alpha-action[data-id='+alphaKeys[i]+']').removeClass('disabled');\n\t\t\t$('.filter-by-alpha-action[data-id='+alphaKeys[i]+']').attr('aria-label', '');\n\t\t\t\/\/facultyHtml += renderFacultyAlpha(alphaProfessors[alphaKeys[i]], alphaKeys[i]);\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t\n\tfunction getCheckedCheckboxes(checkboxes) {\n\t\tvar checkedVal = [];\n\t\tfor (var i = 0; i < checkboxes.length; i++) {\n\t\t\tif(checkboxes[i].checked) {\n\t\t\t\tcheckedVal.push(checkboxes[i].value);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\treturn checkedVal;\n\t}\n\t\n\tfunction profDataByFilters(data) {\n\t\t\/\/console.log('profDataByFilters',{faculty_options,data});\n\t\tvar result = [];\n\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < data.length; i++ ) {\n\t\t\tvar found = false;\n\t\t\tvar foundType = false;\n\t\t\tvar foundClinic = false;\n\t\t\tvar foundCenter = false;\n\t\t\tvar foundTopic = false;\n\t\t\t\/\/console.log('data[i]', data[i]);\n\t\t\tif( faculty_options['type'].length && faculty_options['type'].includes(data[i].type) ) {\n\t\t\t\tfoundType = true;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tif( faculty_options['clinic'].length || faculty_options['center'].length || faculty_options['topic'].length ) {\n\t\t\t\tif( faculty_options['clinic'].length ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tfor( var j = 0; j < faculty_options['clinic'].length; j++ ) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfoundClinic = data[i].categories.includes(faculty_options['clinic'][j]) || foundClinic;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t\t\/\/foundClinic = true;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif( faculty_options['center'].length ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tfor( var j = 0; j < faculty_options['center'].length; j++ ) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfoundCenter = data[i].categories.includes(faculty_options['center'][j]) || foundCenter;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t\t\/\/foundCenter = true;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif( faculty_options['topic'].length ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tfor( var j = 0; j < faculty_options['topic'].length; j++ ) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfoundTopic = data[i].categories.includes(faculty_options['topic'][j]) || 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He was previously director of legal education and academic director with BarBri\/BarPassers Bar Review, where he lectured, tutored and helped candidates successfully prepare for the California bar exam.Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member at various California law schools teaching classes on the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), real property and civil procedure. He is also the California Community Property lecturer for Themis Bar Review.Rahul received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and JD from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is a member of the California State Bar.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-547');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250908_terry_allen_headshots20250909_022-350-500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Terry Allen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Assistant Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/allen-terry\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Terry Allen is a public law scholar who researches and writes about the relationship between policing and constitutional law, particularly in the educational domain. Before joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty, Allen taught at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a Research Assistant Professor of Law and the Inaugural Race, Place, and Equity Fellow.Allen received his BA in rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley; his MA in education policy from Columbia University; his PhD in education from University of California Los Angeles; and his law degree from UCLA School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of UCLA Law Review. After law school, Allen worked as an associate at Baker McKenzie in Washington, D.C. and New York.Allen teaches and writes in the areas of education law, constitutional law, and race and the law. This work builds on his practice experience as well as his doctoral work on how educational inequality is affected by law and legal doctrine. Central to this work is the use of empirical social science methodologies such as interviews and the use of maps as storytelling tools. His articles use these methods to push scholars, policymakers and practitioners to think differently about the law and its potential for reform, in ways that are both data-driven and data informed. They have appeared or is forthcoming in law journals including New York University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and UCLA Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-555');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Scott-Altman.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Scott Altman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Virginia S. and Fred H. Bice Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/scott-altman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Scott Altman is an expert in jurisprudence, property and family law. In his role as professor at USC Gould School of Law, he teaches Family Law, Property, Jurisprudence and Community Property. He joined the USC Gould faculty in 1988, served as associate dean from 1995 to 2006 and\u00a0as vice dean from 2007 to 2016.Altman\u2019s recent research focuses on child custody and divorce issues. He has published articles on judicial candor, commodification, coercion, blackmail, threats to litigate child custody, and equality norms applied to child custody. His publications include \u201cA Theory of Child Support\u201d (International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2003); \u201cDivorcing Threats and Offers\u201d (Law & Philosophy, 1996); and \u201cBeyond Candor\u201d (Michigan Law Review, 1990).Altman earned his BA\u2019s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as developments chair for the Harvard Law Review. He was a clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1987 to 1988, and he joined the USC Law faculty as assistant professor in 1988. He was named the Virginia S. and Fred H. Bice Professor of Law in 1997.See Altman\u2019s working papers on the Social Science Research Network http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/cf_dev\/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=17336',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Rebecca Ambrose',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/ambrose-rebecca\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Jay Anstine.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jay Anstine',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/anstine-jay\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jay Anstine is a health care lawyer with significant industry knowledge of the U.S. health care market. Over the past 19 years, he has worked on the provider and the managed care side of the market, for large for-profit and nonprofit health systems, and small physician-owned entities. In tackling the countless regulatory and operational issues for these diverse organization types, he has developed a deep understanding of the business of health care and the regulations governing the industry.Specific to health care operations, Anstine has worked on regulatory issues involving hospital inpatient and outpatient services, ambulatory surgery centers, physician services, skilled nursing services, home health, hospice, behavioral health, therapy, medical transport, durable medical equipment, managed care and third party reimbursement to name a few.Additionally, he has worked with physicians involving nearly every specialty including: family practice, OB-GYN, neonatology, pediatrics, orthopedics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, gastroenterology, hospitalist, anesthesia, general surgery, cardiology, pathology, radiology and pulmonology.Specific to regulatory compliance, Anstine has consulted to boards of directors, senior management, employees and physicians on topics involving compliance program operations, fraud and abuse, billing and coding, patient confidentiality, the Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act (EMTALA), Medicare Conditions of Participation, licensure, scope of practice and telemedicine.Anstine routinely speaks and writes on regulatory compliance issues. Since 2007, he has written articles for publications addressing various issues involving compliance program operations. Since 2008, he has spoken routinely at regional and national health care compliance conferences on issues involving fraud and abuse, patient privacy and security, EMTALA, scope of practice, regulatory enforcement and compliance program operations.Anstine obtained his law degree from the University of South Dakota where he focused on health care law. From 2012-16, he served on the board of directors for a nonprofit organization serving the medically underserved in Colorado (ClinicNET), and is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), serving on the planning committee for the Mountain Regional Conference.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Apodaca_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Robin Apodaca',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Associate Dean of Career Services',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/robin-apodaca\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Robin Apodaca is the associate dean of career services. With more than 18 years of industry experience, Apodaca has extensive knowledge of law school career and professional development. Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law, she provided career planning assistance to law students at Southwestern Law School, the University of La Verne College of Law and the Chapman University Fowler School of Law. In addition to her leadership positions at several law school career services offices, she is also an active member of the National Association of Law Placement where she is an elected member of the Regional Leadership Council. Though born in Germany, Apodaca has spent the majority of her life in sunny Southern California and holds a BA from California State University, Fullerton.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Aranas_Pauline1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Pauline Aranas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'John Stauffer Charitable Trust Chief Information Officer Emerita and Law Librarian Emerita',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/pauline-aranas\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Pauline Aranas, the John Stauffer Charitable Trust Chief Information Officer Emerita and Law Librarian Emerita, retired from USC Gould School of Law in 2020.A 1981 graduate of USC Gould School of Law, Aranas is a past Chair of the Association of American Law School\u2019s Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information, a past president of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries and a member of the American Association of Law Libraries.Aranas holds a BA from UCLA; a JD from USC Gould School of Law; and an MLIS from the UC Berkeley. She joined USC\u2019s law library as a reference librarian in 1984 and served in a number of roles before being named associate director of the law library and adjunct associate professor of law in 1992. From 1994 to 2002, she served as director of Vanderbilt University Law School\u2019s Alyne Queener Massey Law Library \u2014 later assistant dean for library and information technology \u2014 and associate professor of law. From 2002 to 2004, she was associate law librarian at the UCLA School of Law. From 2004 to 2006, she served as associate dean, chief operating officer for USC Gould. From 2007 to 2009, she served as associate dean, deputy director of the law library and adjunct professor of law. From 2009-2012, she was appointed associate dean, acting dean of library and information technology and adjunct professor of law. In 2013, she was appointed associate dean, John Stauffer Charitable Trust Chief Information Officer and director of the law library and served until her retirement in 2020.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-25');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Armour_Jody_2011hr_2.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jody David Armour',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jody-david-armour\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Armour\u2019s expertise ranges from personal injury claims to claims about the relationship between racial justice, criminal justice, and the rule of law. Armour studies the intersection of race and legal decision making as well as torts and tort reform movements.A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute\u2019s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture. He has published articles in Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Southern California Review of Law and Women\u2019s Studies, University of Colorado Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Southwestern University Law Review, and Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. His book Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press) addresses three core concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement\u2014namely, racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration. He has recently completed a second book that examines law, language, and moral luck in the criminal justice system. Armour often appears as a legal analyst on NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, KPCC, KCRW, and a variety of other television and radio news programs. At the request of the U.S. Department of State and European Embassies, Professor Armour has toured major universities in Europe to speak about social justice as well as Hip Hop culture and the law. His work on the intersection of these topics grew into a unique interdisciplinary and multimedia analysis of social justice and linguistics, titled Race, Rap and Redemption, produced by USC alumna J. M. Morris, and featuring performances by Ice Cube, Mayda del Valle, Saul Williams, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Macy Gray Music Academy Orchestra, and Mailon Rivera.Armour earned his AB degree in Sociology at Harvard University and his JD degree with honors from Boalt Hall Law School at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining USC, he was an associate at Morrison & Foerster, Kirkpatrick and Lockhart and taught at UC Berkeley\u2019s Boalt Hall, Indiana University and the University of Pittsburgh.Armour currently teaches students a diverse array of subjects, including Criminal Law, Torts, and Stereotypes and Prejudice: The Role of the Cognitive Unconscious in the Rule of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/bernadette-atuahene-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Bernadette Atuahene',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/bernadette-atuahene\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Bernadette Atuahene is a property law scholar focusing on land stolen from people in the African Diaspora. She is the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who grew up in Los Angeles and earned her bachelor\u2019s degree at UCLA. She then earned her JD from Yale Law School and her MPA from Harvard. After completing her graduate studies, she served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and then practiced as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. She was previously the James E. Jones Chair at the University of Wisconsin Law School.Atuahene has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the South African Land Claims Commission, and has also directed and produced an award-winning short documentary film about one South African family\u2019s struggle to regain their land. She has been honored with the Fulbright Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relation\u2019s International Affairs Fellowship and Princeton University\u2019s Law and Public Affairs Fellowship. Her first book \u2014\u00a0We Want What\u2019s Ours: Learning from South Africa\u2019s Land Restitution Program\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2014) \u2014 is based on 150 interviews she conducted with South Africans dispossessed of their land by the colonial and apartheid governments and who received some form of compensation post-apartheid.Atuahene won a National Science Foundation award for her current project about racialized property tax administration in Detroit, which has received several accolades, including the Law and Society Association\u2019s John Hope Franklin Award for best paper on race in 2020 and the Article Prize in 2024. In addition to publishing two New York Times\u00a0op-eds and appearing on national news shows such as Democracy Now! and the Tavis Smiley Show to discuss her Detroit work, she has also published academic articles in journals such as\u00a0California Law Review,\u00a0Northwestern Law Review,\u00a0Southern California Law Review and New York University Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['A'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jennifer Awrey',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/awrey-jennifer\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'A',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'LaToya Baldwin Clark',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/baldwin-clark-latoya\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Ben Barnett 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ben Barnett',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/barnett-ben\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Ben Barnett is an appellate court attorney with the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District.Before taking on this role, Barnett represented tenants facing eviction actions as a senior staff attorney at Inner City Law Center, a nonprofit law firm in Los Angeles. He also previously practiced civil litigation at a law firm in Chicago, and served as a judicial law clerk at the Idaho Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Barnett received a JD and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago, and a BA in psychology and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.As a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law, Barnett teaches a course introducing the structure and operations of, as well as the methodologies employed within, the U.S. legal system.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-34');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/barnett_jonathan_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Jonathan Barnett',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jonathan Barnett',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jonathan-barnett\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jonathan Barnett specializes in antitrust, competition, intellectual property, and corporate law, with a focus on innovation policy, strategy, and geopolitics. \u00a0He is the author of The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property\u00a0(Oxford University Press 2024) and Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property\u00a0(Oxford University Press 2021). \u00a0He is also a co-editor of Bringing Medicines to Life: How Intellectual Property Enables Innovation in the Life Sciences (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2026) and\u00a05G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things\u00a0(Cambridge University Press 2023).He has published widely in scholarly journals on legal, economic, and geopolitical matters relating to antitrust and competition, intellectual property, and innovation policy. \u00a0He also publishes regularly with policy think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, and International Center for Law & Economics.He joined USC in 2006 and was a visiting professor at NYU in 2010.\u00a0 He also co-leads the Eira Initiative, a life sciences policy initiative at the Berkeley Policy Institute. \u00a0Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb LLP in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received a MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-85');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/JordanBarry.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jordan Barry',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, and John B. Milliken Professor of Law and Taxation',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jordan-barry\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jordan Barry\u2019s research spans a variety of topics pertaining to business law, tax law, and law and economics. His work has been published in a range of academic publications, including the Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Journal of Political Economy, Southern California Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. In addition, his research has been discussed in local, national and international media outlets, including The New Yorker, Bloomberg, NPR Marketplace, the Los Angeles Times, and the Times of India.Barry\u2019s teaching covers a similar range of business, finance, and tax topics. His courses have included corporate finance, contracts, tax, tax policy, and law and economics, among other subjects. Prior to joining USC, Barry was a professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he also directed the Center for Corporate and Securities Law and co-directed the graduate tax program. In addition, Barry has taught courses at the University of Michigan Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law.In his time at the University of San Diego, Barry was awarded the Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in both 2011-12 and 2018-19. He was named the Herzog Endowed Scholar for meritorious teaching and scholarship in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, University Professor in 2019, and the Kaye and Richard Woltman Professor in Finance in 2020. His article Regulatory Entrepreneurship (with Elizabeth Pollman) was named among the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Law Articles of 2017 by Corporate Practice Commentator. He was also named a \u201cFavorite Faculty Member\u201d by the USD School of Law\u2019s Public Interest Law Foundation from 2011-12.Before he became a professor, Barry practiced law in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and clerked for the Honorable Jay Bybee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Stanford Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'USC shield graphic in cardinal outlines on a white background.',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Tommy Beane',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Emerging Technology and Archives Librarian',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/beane-tommy\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Jamie_Beck 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jamie Beck',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/beck-jamie\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jamie Beck is the founder, president and managing attorney of Free to Thrive, a Southern California-based nonprofit organization that breaks down barriers for survivors of human trafficking by providing holistic legal services and transforming the legal system through policy advocacy and stakeholder education. She founded Free to Thrive after providing pro bono legal services to human trafficking survivors and discovering that there was no dedicated legal services provider for trafficking survivors in San Diego. She was so moved by this experience and the need for more attorneys to help trafficking survivors that she left private practice to launch Free to Thrive.Prior to starting Free to Thrive, Beck practiced civil litigation at Procopio, Cory, Hargeaves & Savitch LLP. Before joining Procopio, Beck served as a judicial law clerk to Hon. Michael M. Anello, Federal District Court judge for the Southern District of California.Beck currently serves on the Dean\u2019s board of advisors for the University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, where as an adjunct professor she taught a course titled Reframing Human Trafficking. She has trained thousands of attorneys, students, stakeholders and community members on human trafficking and trauma-informed practices.Beck is a past president of Lawyers Club of San Diego and founded the Lawyers Club Human Trafficking Collaborative in 2016. Under her leadership, Lawyers Club successfully advocated for a law to help survivors of human trafficking clear criminal convictions related to their exploitation, now codified under California Penal Code 236.14. This law is a powerful tool that Free to Thrive uses to help its clients get a fresh start.Beck graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law where she was a member of the San Diego Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/paolo-beconcini-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Paolo Beconcini headshot',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Paolo Beconcini',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/beconcini-paolo\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Paolo Beconcini is an Italian attorney at Squire Patton Boggs and since 2012 has headed the firm\u2019s China Intellectual Property team spanning several offices, including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Beconcini consults with companies seeking protection for their IP rights in China and legal action against infringers, advising on issues of law and enforcement, conducting evidence gathering and piloting their cases through the Chinese legal system.A sought-after authority on IP protection and litigation in China, Beconcini manages the trademark, copyright and design portfolios of European and U.S. clients, conceives and implements IP litigation strategies, regularly appears in Chinese courts and attends IPR administrative and police raids on counterfeiters. His record of success in patent and trademark infringement lawsuits includes landmark cases designated \u201ccase of the year\u201d by several IP journals. He leads business intelligence teams that pursue evidence of counterfeiting operations, particularly concerning automotive, fashion and consumer goods.Beconcini is frequently invited to speak at conferences devoted to the growing field of Chinese IP, and has been actively involved in field projects, including trademark and patent enforcement training programs for Chinese civil servants. He is regularly interviewed on China IP matters by media around the world such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, The Times, Bloomberg, La Tribune and Il Sole24 Ore, among others.Beconcini is fluent in five languages, including Mandarin, which helps him navigate international borders and creates confidence in his clients. He represents U.S. and European clients in confronting the myriad cross-cultural challenges \u2013 legal, commercial and political \u2013 that threaten patent and trademark assets.Beconcini holds a BA and LLM from the University of Florence, as well as an LLM from the USC Gould School of Law.\u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Sara%20Berman%20350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sara Berman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Professor of Lawyering Skills and Director of the Academic Success Program',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sara-berman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sara J. Berman is a professor of lawyering skills and the director of the Academic Success Program. Before joining the USC Gould School of Law, Berman served as the founding director of academic and Bar success at the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence, a national nonprofit in Washington, D.C. She also served on the faculty and senior administration of law schools in California, New York and Florida.An early adopter of distance learning in legal education, Berman taught at the first fully online law school for 15 years. Her publications and scholarship focus on student success, bar exams, professional licensing, distance learning and self-represented litigants.Berman earned her JD from the UCLA School of Law. She also graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA from UC Santa Barbara, majoring in both political science (with an emphasis in international relations) and French literature.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Nicole Bershon_0121.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Judge Nicole Bershon',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/bershon-judge-nicole\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Judge Nicole Bershon was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2013 by Governor Jerry Brown. She currently sits at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse where she oversees a family law home court. Judge Bershon joined the family law bench from the Second Division Court of Appeal, Division Three, where she served as a pro tem justice for six months. While there, she authored over 30 opinions, including five published decisions.Prior to serving on the Court of Appeal, Judge Bershon oversaw a Community Collaborative Court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, which focused on providing alternatives to incarceration for certain at-risk populations, including veterans, the chronically homeless, the mentally ill, and those suffering from addiction.Previously, she sat at the Torrance Courthouse, where her assignments included misdemeanor and felony trials and preliminary hearings. Prior to her arrival at Torrance, she served as the Site Judge for the Inglewood Courthouse, overseeing daily operations, while handling a busy small claims courtroom. Before becoming a judge, she served as a court commissioner for two years.Judge Bershon has served on the Court\u2019s Executive, Community Outreach, Court Security, Jury, and Temporary Judge Committees. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the California Judges Association and is an incoming Vice-President of the organization. She is also a founding board member of California Women Judges and currently serves as a member at large.After graduating from law school, Judge Bershon entered private practice with Stutman, Treister & Glatt, and, later, with Irell & Manella, where she handled bankruptcy, civil and criminal litigation, and corporate matters. She then spent six years with the Los Angeles City Attorney\u2019s Office, handling both civil and criminal matters, including a number of domestic violence cases. Before joining the bench, Judge Bershon spent almost 10 years with the Office of the Inspector General for the Los Angeles Police Commission, first as an Assistant Inspector General, and later as Inspector General for the LAPD.Judge Bershon is a former President of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and is a prior recipient of their Distinguished Service Award. In addition, she has served on the boards of California Women Lawyers, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Multicultural Bar Alliance of Southern California. She is a Past President of the UCLA Law Alumni Association.Judge Bershon is a graduate of Princeton University, where she co-captained the women\u2019s rugby team. She received her law degree from the UCLA School of Law, where she served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Women\u2019s Law Journal. She has taught Criminal and Constitutional Law at USC\u2019s Gould School of Law, and Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Timothy Best',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/best-timothy\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Timothy P. Best is a partner in the Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP\u2019s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm\u2019s Intellectual Property Litigation practice.Best\u2019s patent litigation experience has spanned work for clients in a variety of technological fields, including biotechnology and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, image processing, semiconductor manufacture, and business methods. Best also has experience in copyright and trademark litigation.Best earned his JD at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where he served on the Editorial Board of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and served as an advisor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Annual Review.Prior to law school, Best earned his PhD of Philosophy in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology where his work included organic syntheses of DNA-binding small molecules, as well as the assessment of those molecules\u2019 in vitro and in vivo activity using molecular biology and cellular biology techniques. Best received his BS in Chemistry from Butler University, where he graduated summa cum laude with highest honors in chemistry.Best is admitted to practice law in the State of California.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/sbice.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Scott Bice',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Dean Emeritus of Law and Robert C. and Nanette T. Packard Professor Emeritus of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/scott-bice\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Scott Bice joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1969, after serving as a clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. He teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction and Torts. Constitutional theory and federal jurisdiction are among his scholarly interests. His published articles include \u201cRationality Analysis in Constitutional Law\u201d (Minnesota Law Review, 1980) and \u201cStandards of Judicial Review in American Constitutional Law \u2014 Equal Protection and Due Process Illustrations\u201d (Wissenschaftsrecht Wissenschaftsverwaltung Wissenschaftsforderung, September 1978).Bice, who served as dean of USC Gould from 1980-2000, was appointed by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court to serve on the California Judicial Council\u2019s Commission on the Future of the Courts. He was president and director of the Association of American Law Deans, and he is a life member of the American Law Institute and a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation.Bice has twice been awarded the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2007, he received the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award. He has served as associate dean for academic affairs and as the Carl Mason Franklin professor Law at USC Gould; as a visiting professor of law and social science at the California Institute of Technology; and as a visiting professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He received his BS in Finance from the USC and his JD from USC Gould, where he was editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'James Bilek',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/bilek-james\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Bodmer 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Steve Bodmer',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/bodmer-steve\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Steve M. Bodmer is an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina and veteran of the U.S. Navy. He received his JD from Arizona State University College of Law, where he also earned the Indian Legal Program Certificate for extensive study in the area of Federal Indian law.Bodmer practiced Indian law in the private practice setting for several years in Phoenix, Arizona, until leaving to serve as general counsel for tribe in Central California. Bodmer has also previously worked in Washington, D.C., for Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota on the senator\u2019s Indian Affairs team and also worked for the Department of Justice, Office of Tribal Justice.Bodmer serves as general counsel for the Pechanga Band of Indians in Temecula, California. In this role Bodmer provides legal counsel to the Tribal Council, the Pechanga Development Corporation, and oversight for the legal affairs of the Pechanga Resort and Casino and other economic diversification projects of the tribe. Among other areas of practice, Bodmer specializes in federal Indian law, gaming law, tribal governance and tribal economic development. He is also an adjunct professor with Arizona State University Law, teaching Contemporary Issues in Tribal Economic Development. Bodmer is a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and has presented at conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally for over a decade on topics such as the future of tribal sovereignty, gaming law and sports betting.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'USC shield graphic in cardinal outlines on a white background.',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jackie Bonilla-Fuentes',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Staff Attorney, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/bonilla-fuentes-jackie\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Booth_Susan_300.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Susan Booth',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/booth-susan\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Susan J. Booth is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP, where she spent more than a decade as the head of the West Coast Real Estate Group and served on the firm\u2019s Director\u2019s Committee. She has extensive experience negotiating, drafting and successfully closing large commercial financing and purchase\/sale transactions involving shopping centers, hotels, condominiums, office buildings, industrial parks, data centers, senior-living centers and residential, commercial and mixed-use developments. She is widely regarded for her expertise in all types of capital market transactions and for her ability to develop and implement strategies to resolve the issues arising from non-performing real estate assets. She has closed more than $1 billion in transactions over each of the past few years.Booth has spoken in multiple forums, and her writings have been featured in various industry and legal publications. She has received numerous honors, including Marquis, Who\u2019s Who in America, Chambers USA \u2013 America\u2019s Leading Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, and was named one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Southern California through Super Lawyers. She also received a Commendation from the City of Los Angeles.Among her leadership roles, Booth serves on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles as well as on the board of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the executive committee for the City of Hope Construction and Real Estate Industries Council. She is a past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section and continues to serve on its executive committee. She is also co-chair of USC Gould\u2019s Annual Conference on Real Estate Law and Business.Booth graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Relations, and she received a JD and an MBA from UCLA, where she was the managing editor of the UCLA Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Mark Borenstein.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mark Borenstein',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/borenstein-mark\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Judge Mark Borenstein was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in March 2009, where he currently presides in a civil trial assignment in the Mosk Central Courthouse. Prior to his appointment, Judge Borenstein practiced law in state and federal courts for 30 years, specializing in complex civil litigation. He co-founded Overland Borenstein Scheper & Kim, formerly Overland & Borenstein, and was a partner of Tuttle & Taylor Law Corporation in Los Angeles.While practicing, Judge Borenstein also taught Civil Procedure and Advanced Civil Procedure at the University of Southern California\u2019s Gould School of Law. Judge Borenstein served as a law clerk to the Honorable Irving Hill, U.S. District Court, Los Angeles, from 1976 to 1977.He earned his JD from George Washington University School of Law and bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Buffalo, graduating with honors from both schools. Judge Borenstein also holds a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Peter Borenstein',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/borenstein-peter\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/kim-bowman-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Kim Bowman headshot',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Kim Bowman Jr.',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kim-m-bowman-jr\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Kim M. Bowman Jr. is the Mayor of La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, a nonprofit attorney, and an advocate for older adults who is working to improve the community to make sure it remains inclusive for people at every stage of life. He teaches Military Law, Equity and the Legal and Social Determinants of Health, Medical-Legal Community Partnership Practicum, and Law and Medicine.Bowman is special counsel for a Los Angeles County nonprofit legal organization where he provides free legal assistance to those harmed by natural disasters and leads the estates and probate program for low-income individuals and families. He also serves as a major in the United States Air Force Reserve and a member of The Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corps.In addition to his professional public service roles, Bowman is past president of the Los Angeles County Commission for Older Adults, a former La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge Parks and Recreation commissioner, and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.Bowman holds a law degree from the University of the Pacific, a master\u2019s degree in gerontology from the University of Southern California, a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Westminster University, and bachelor\u2019s degrees in gender studies and political science from the University of Utah. He is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, the state courts and central district federal court of California, and all state and federal courts in Utah.Kim Bowman is a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve. 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He was the directing attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance before teaching at USC Gould School of Law and then Emory University. He also served as deputy federal public defender and as a partner in Balaban, Stern and Brennan before returning to USC Law in 1984.Brennan received his BA and LLB from the UC Berkeley. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He previously chaired the Federal Indigent Defense Panel Selection Committee for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, served as a member of the LACBA Judicial Evaluation Committee, consulted for the National Legal Services Training Program and was a member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Lauren Brody',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/brody-lauren\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/brownmarc.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Marc E. Brown',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/brown-marc-e\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Registered patent attorney with more than 35 years of experience in the preparation, prosecution and litigation of patents, as well as with teaching others about them.Coached team at USC in the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who then won both the preliminary and final round of the Silicon Valley regional division and then second place in the national round, beating all but one of the 54 other law schools in the competition.Repeatedly recognized as an \u201cIP Star\u201d in Managing IP Handbook, as one of \u201cSouthern California\u2019s Top-Rated Lawyers\u201d by Law.com, and has the highest peer rating of \u201cAV Preeminent\u201d in Martindale-Hubbell. Represented clients in the procurement, evaluation and enforcement of high-technology patents, with particular expertise in computer hardware, software, the internet, electronics and biomedical devices.Writings on intellectual property law have been widely published. These include Brown on Patents, an interactive guide to patents; PatentBites.com, a condensed, interactive guide to patents; the columns \u201cOn The Law\u201d in Electronic Business; \u201cSoftware and the Law\u201d in Dr. Dobb\u2019s Sourcebook; \u201cElectronics and the Law\u201d in Electronics; and Internet Business Method Patents, an Internet-linked CD containing a compendium of reports and related information on Internet business method patents.Invited to speak at numerous legal conferences, trade shows and universities. Often contacted by the media for comment on new legal developments.Holds BSEE from Case Western Reserve University and JD from George Washington University. Served as law clerk and technical advisor to the United States Court of Claims (now called the United States Claims Court) in Washington, D.C., and assisted this court with major patent infringement lawsuits brought against the U.S. government.Admitted to practice before federal and California state courts, both at the trial and appellate level, and admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/RBrown-OmarN_8351-lp-web.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Rebecca Brown',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/rebecca-brown\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Rebecca Latham Brown is a nationally recognized constitutional law theorist who joined USC Gould School of Law in August 2008.\u00a0Brown\u2019s scholarship focuses on judicial review and its relationship to individual liberty under the U.S. Constitution. She was named\u00a0The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law in 2015.Brown received her BA from St. John\u2019s College (Annapolis, MD) and her JD, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III. Brown also worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced with Onek, Klein & Farr in Washington, D.C.\u00a0From 1988 to 2008, she was a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, where she held the Allen Chair in Law from 2003 until her departure.Brown recently published \u201cHow Constitutional Theory Found Its Soul: The Contributions of Ronald Dworkin,\u201d in Exploring Law\u2019s Empire (Hershovitz ed., Oxford University Press 2006), \u201cThe Logic of Majority Rule\u201d (Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2006) and \u201cConfessions of a Flawed Liberal\u201d (The Good Society 2005). She serves as co-chair of the American Constitution Society\u2019s Constitution in the 21st Century Project.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ryan-bubb-350-500-sept-2025.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ryan Bubb',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Visiting Professor of Law and Director of Strategic Initiatives',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/ryan-bubb\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Ryan Bubb is a Visiting Professor of Law and the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the USC Gould School of Law. His areas of research encompass corporate law, law and economics, and regulatory policy.Bubb joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 2010, serving\u00a0as the Robert B. McKay Professor of Law. He is a former senior researcher at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and a policy analyst at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. In addition, he has held visiting professor, visiting scholar, or visiting fellow positions at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley School of Law, the University of Chicago School of Law, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.Bubb has taught courses in corporate and securities law and in law and economics. In 2014, he was awarded the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU Law.A widely cited scholar, Bubb has published over a dozen articles in law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals, including legal and economic analyses of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 (e.g.,\u00a0\u201cSecuritization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Credit Score Cutoff Rules,\u201d 63 J. Monetary Econ. 1 (2014), with Alex Kaufman;\u00a0\u201cRegulating Against Bubbles,\u201d 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1539 (2015), with Prasad Krishnamurthy;\u00a0\u201cRegulating Motivation: A New Perspective on the Volcker Rule,\u201d 96 Tex. L. Rev. 1019 (2018), with Marcel Kahan), analyses of the implications of behavioral economics for policy design (e.g.,\u00a0\u201cConsumer Biases and Mutual Ownership,\u201d 105 J. Public Econ. 39 (2013), with Alex Kaufman;\u00a0\u201cHow Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why,\u201d 127 Harv. L. Rev. 1593 (2014), with Richard H. Pildes;\u00a0\u201cAn Equilibrium Theory of Retirement Plan Design,\u201d 12 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol\u2019y 22 (2020), with Patrick L. Warren); and an empirical analysis of how mutual funds vote their shares in portfolio companies (\u201cThe Party Structure of Mutual Funds,\u201d 35 Rev. Fin. Stud. 2839 (2022), with Emiliano M. Catan).Bubb received his BS in physics from the College of William and Mary in 1998. After graduating with a JD from Yale Law School and an MA in economics from Yale University in 2005, he began doctoral work in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 2011.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'John Buchman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/buchman-john\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'John Buchman was managing director and regulatory counsel for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., in San Francisco, Calif., from 2015 to his retirement in 2024. At Schwab, Buchman advised the Treasury Capital Markets and Deposits and Payments groups that oversee the company\u2019s Capital Stress Testing, Liquidity Risk Management and Bank Sweep Deposits initiatives. Prior to joining Charles Schwab, from 2013-2015, Buchman was Executive Counsel, Regulatory Affairs with GE Capital Corporation in Norwalk, CT. Previously, Buchman was Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of E*TRADE Bank in Arlington, Va., for more than 12 years.Buchman has co-taught the Financial Institutions Regulation course at USC\u2019s Gould School of Law with Janis Penton since 2019 and also co-teaches a Fintech Regulation course in the Boston University School of Law\u2019s Graduate Program in Banking & Financial Law. Buchman has been a member of the faculty for the Fundamentals of Banking Law program since 2012. From 1991 to 2015, Buchman was a member of the adjunct faculty at George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C., where he taught Banking Law and a financial regulatory reform seminar class. From 2010 to 2015, Buchman served as the first chair of the advisory board of GW Law\u2019s Center for Law, Economics and Finance. Buchman has also guest lectured at Berkeley Law School.Buchman received his law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/kevin-burke-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Kevin Burke',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/burke-kevin\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Kevin Joseph Burke works with an international law firm with offices in the UK and Asia, and a global reach through a law firm alliance network. His focus is in the areas of law firm strategy, management and legal services innovation. Burke\u2019s professional background followed a path from litigation specialist and jury trial lawyer to leadership and governance of an AMLAW 200 firm as a law firm chairman. As the firm chairman his work was directed toward modernizing the firm\u2019s technology platform, adding a C-level tier of administrative and operations professionals and prioritized diversity and inclusion, LBGTQ mandates and opportunities for partnership membership.Burke is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers; fellow, American Bar Foundation and fellow, Litigation Counsel of America. He is pursuing his interest in the evolution of the legal services sector and law firm management consulting.At USC Gould, Burke teaches Business of Law: Future of Legal Service Delivery, which offers practical and real perspectives on the legal profession. The course explores a historical foundation of law as a profession throughout most of the 20th century and the drivers of change transforming the sector from a professional model to more of a business model. The course covers a range of topics including client driven change, innovation, consequential stressors, technology and digitalization, and business model design.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/brian-burkin-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Brian Burkin',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/burkin-brian\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Brian Burkin is executive vice president of business affairs for Columbia-TriStar Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Burkin first joined Sony Pictures in 2007 in New York City and later moved to Sony\u2019s headquarters in Culver City, Calif. Currently, he serves as head of business affairs at TriStar Pictures, where he is responsible for managing the business operations, including negotiating deals for talent, rights and financing, as well as for sales and acquisitions.Prior to serving at TriStar, Burkin was head of business affairs and operations at Sony\u2019s International Motion Picture Production unit, which produces theatrical features in local languages around the world, including in China, Russia, India and Germany. Previously, Burkin worked for nearly 10 years at Miramax Films, where he was senior vice president of business affairs.Burkin started his career in New York City, where he practiced corporate law, commercial litigation and transactional entertainment law. Burkin earned his BA from Penn State University and his JD from Tulane University Law School.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Paul Burns',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/burns-paul\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['B'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Christopher Butler 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Christopher Butler',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/butler-christopher\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'B',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Christopher Butler is a litigation counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Butler has handled insurance recovery litigation, business tort litigation, financing disputes, product liability and medical device litigation, and defended against California state and consumer enforcement actions.Butler is a 2017 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/ACadambi_0181.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Anitha Cadambi',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Executive Director, Online & Professional Programs and Adjunct Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/anitha-cadambi\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Anitha Cadambi teaches LLM Legal Profession, Introduction to U.S. Culture and Practice, and Introduction to the U.S. Legal System for USC\u2019s residential and online programs, respectively. She serves as USC Gould\u2019s executive director of Online & Professional Programs, and is an adjunct assistant professor of law.Prior to joining USC full-time, Cadambi was a transactional attorney with Singh Law Group, where she advised clients on a variety of business law issues. Over the years, Cadambi\u2019s clients have included startup companies, restaurants, health care agencies, educational ventures and manufacturing companies. Previously, she was an attorney with Castilla Del Oro, a Washington, D.C., non-profit organization, with offices in Panama and Spain. While at Castilla Del Oro, she advised on legal and business issues for the foundation\u2019s projects in Panama, Spain and the U.S.Cadambi graduated in the top 2% of her class with an LLM degree from USC Gould School of Law in 2011. Upon graduation, she completed a six-month legal fellowship with Aparicio Law, where she worked as a research associate for the firm\u2019s business law practice. She received her Bachelor\u2019s in Law (LLB), with top honors, from Indian Law Society, Pune, India. Cadambi is a member of the California and New York state bars.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/BahaarCadambi-web.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Bahaar Cadambi',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/cadambi-bahaar\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Bahaar Cadambi is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Newmeyer & Dillion LLP. Her practice focuses on business, insurance and real estate litigation. She represents businesses, homebuilders, developers and general contractors in complex, multi-party real estate, construction defect and insurance disputes. She also represents individuals and businesses across a variety of business litigation matters.Cadambi takes a global approach to problem solving, offering her clients a range of strategic solutions to meet not only their immediate goals, but also their goals for long-term success. 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She provides strategic assessment and oversight of all USC Gould School of Law graduate and international degree and non-degree programs. Call holds a BA from USC and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University. 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Her work focuses on children, youth and young adults who face the harm of the juvenile and criminal systems, and she uses policy and legal advocacy as well as research and writing on human rights violations in order to effect strategic action for change. Calvin relies on the leadership of people directly impacted by human rights violations to determine the direction of her work, and she is in constant partnership with youth activists, faith groups, family members of incarcerated youth, survivors of crime, people in prison and people who were formerly incarcerated, among others.Her leadership in coalition-grounded efforts in California has led to more than two dozen significant laws being passed, many with first-in-the-nation strategies to reduce incarceration and prioritize the potential of young people. These laws serve as models for change in other states, and Calvin regularly consults on legislative efforts across the country. In California, these laws include: youth are much less likely to be prosecuted as adults and instead must be provided services and educational opportunities in the youth system; young people never face police interrogation alone, without an attorney; the sentence of life in prison without parole for people under age 18 has effectively ended; and half of all prison parole hearings in the state benefit from the Youth Offender Parole law.In addition, a series of laws Calvin worked on are shifting the youth justice system from being corrections-based to one focused on public health approaches; established the first office of youth justice and youth ombudsperson; and enacted the Youth Bill of Rights for youth who are locked up.Calvin continues to work to end the use of life without parole (LWOP) sentences and established the LWOP Project at Human Rights Watch. She also helped initiate the National LWOP Leadership Council, and, in what is perhaps her most favorite role, she serves as an advisor to that body. More information about this work is at www.BeyondLWOP.org.In addition to teaching law and policy at USC Gould, she is board member and advisor for several nongovernmental organizations and a regular speaker on justice issues.Calvin is the author, or played a major role in conceiving and editing, of several Human Rights Watch reports on youth sentenced to life without parole, foster care and homelessness, and the effects of prosecuting of children under 16 as adults, including:When I Die, They\u2019ll Send Me Home: Youth Sentenced to Life Without Parole in CaliforniaWhen I Die, They\u2019ll Send Me Home: Youth Sentenced to Life Without Parole in California, An UpdateMy So-Called Emancipation: From Foster Care to Homelessness for California YouthAgainst All Odds: Prison Conditions for Youth Offenders Serving Life without Parole Sentences in the United StatesFutures Denied: What California Should Not Prosecute Children as Adults\u201cI Just Want to Give Back\u201d The Reintegration of People Sentenced to Life Without Parole\u201cKids You Throw Away\u201d New Jersey\u2019s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Alexa Camarena',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/camarena-alexa\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dave-campbell.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Dave Campbell',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/campbell-dave\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Dave Campbell teaches Criminal Law. 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An expert in poverty law, trial advocacy and guardianship, she directed the Children\u2019s Project at USC, a clinical program specializing in children\u2019s civil legal issues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Cantero Andres_Official-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Andr\u00e9s Cantero',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/cantero-andres\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Andr\u00e9s Cantero Jr. has been a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School since fall 2021 and has taught Law 709 (Contract Drafting, Analysis and Negotiation), 710 (Contract Drafting and Strategy) and Law 676 (Dealmaking).Cantero is also a real estate attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and previously worked at Kirkland & Elis LLP, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP and Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, all prominent and large international law firms. Throughout his career, Cantero has represented real estate institutional investors, owners, and developers in mortgage and mezzanine financings, joint venture, leasing and purchase and sale transactions. Cantero has worked on a variety of mixed-use, hospitality, and affordable housing projects, and has experience providing project permitting and entitlement strategy, including due diligence review and analysis of local zoning laws, and related land use restrictions.At Willkie, Cantero is the chair of the Los Angeles Office Attorneys of Color Affinity Group and a firmwide representative for the LGBTQ Affinity Group. Cantero is also a member of the firm\u2019s Latinx and First Generation affinity groups.Cantero also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Mexican American Bar Foundation, an organization raising scholarship for Latinx law students in Los Angeles. Cantero is also the co-founder and current board member of Los Angeles Room & Board, a multimillion dollar nonprofit housing young adults experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity, coupled with wraparound services to ensure these young adults can complete their higher education endeavors. Cantero also is a member of the Board of Directors for Stanford University\u2019s Alumni Association.Cantero earned his JD from USC Gould School of Law in 2016 and a bachelor\u2019s degree in History from Stanford University in 2012. While at USC, Cantero was the recipient of the Order of Ar\u00eate, an award representing the highest honor accorded graduate students upon completion of their academic programs. Students are recognized for demonstrating significant depth and scope of responsibility in a campus or community leadership role. Members of the Order of Aret\u00e9 uphold value and meaning over individual achievement. 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Bice Chair Emeritus in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, Professor Emeritus of Law and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, and Founding Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/alexander-capron\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Alexander Capron, a globally recognized expert in health policy and medical ethics, taught Public Health Law, Torts, and Law and Bioethics at the Law School from 1985 to 2023. He also taught at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and co-founded the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, a campus-wide interdisciplinary research and education center. From 2002 to 2006 he served as Director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights, and Health Law at the World Health Organization in Geneva.Capron\u2019s publications include Ethical Issues in Governing Biobanks: Global Perspectives (with others, Ashgate, 2008), Law, Science and Medicine 2nd ed. (with others, Foundation Press, 1996), Treatise on Health Care Law (with others, Matthew Bender, 1991), and Genetics, Ethics and Human Values (edited with Z. Bankowski, Geneva: CIOMS, 1991).Capron received a BA from Swarthmore College and an LLB from Yale University, where he was an officer of the Yale Law Journal. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and served as President of the International Association of Bioethics. Capron is a trustee of The Century Foundation, an officer of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences) and of the American Law Institute.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Lybby-Carroll-07b-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Elizabeth Carroll',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Vice Dean for Curriculum, Professor of Lawyering Skills, and Director of Legal Writing and Advocacy Program',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/elizabeth-carroll\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Elizabeth Ann Carroll is the director of Legal Writing and Advocacy at USC Gould School of Law. Prior to being named director of the program, Carroll taught Legal Writing and Advocacy at USC as an adjunct professor from 2009-2012. She was appointed associate vice dean for curriculum in 2016 and then vice dean for curriculum in 2018.While teaching at USC, she also served as a staff attorney assigned to United States Magistrate Judge Jay Gandhi. Before that, she was a law clerk for United States Magistrate Judge Carolyn Turchin from 2005-2008. During her time at the U.S. District Court, she developed an expertise in federal habeas corpus, civil rights, and Social Security appeals.Carroll\u2019s experience also includes a decade of practice as a civil litigator in Los Angeles in the areas of business, insurance coverage litigation, and the defense of mass tort actions. From 1996-2001, she was an associate at Howrey LLP and was promoted to partner in 2002. She was named \u201cPro Bono Partner of the Year\u201d for the Los Angeles office in 2003. Before joining Howrey, she was an associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.She received her BS in Psychology with highest honors from the UC Davis. She received her JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/paul-chander.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Paul Chander',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/chander-paul\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Paul Chander is a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice. As a member of the Antitrust Section, he enforces California and federal antitrust law through merger reviews, investigations, and civil and criminal litigation. Before joining the Attorney General\u2019s Office, he practiced complex commercial litigation in the private sector and maintained a pro bono practice focused on constitutional and civil rights.Chander\u2019s academic interests include political economy and the Constitution. His writings have been published in the Antitrust Chronicle, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and Law360. At USC Gould, Chander teaches \u201cLaw and the U.S. Constitution in Global History\u201d and \u201cIntroduction to the U.S. Legal System.\u201dChander began his legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Center for Community-Based Enterprise in Detroit, Mich., where he provided transactional legal services to small businesses to support community economic development. He clerked for three judges at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, including Hon. David Sotelo, Hon. Dennis J. Land\u00edn, and Hon. Craig D. Karlan. 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He also teaches Counseling the Start-up Company, Partnerships & Limited Liability Companies and Business Organizations. Chasalow\u2019s scholarly interests involve the development and structure of business ventures as well as corporate governance issues and issues relating to the governance of partnerships and LLCs. In the spring of 2016 Chasalow was awarded the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award and also received the Student Bar Association Faculty Member of the Year Award.Chasalow attended UC Berkeley, where he received a BA in both English and Economics. He received his JD from Berkeley\u2019s Boalt Hall School of Law and his MBA at the UCLA. After law school Chasalow practiced law for several years, initially as a transactional attorney with Latham and Watkins in Los Angeles, where he specialized in such complex corporate transactions as mergers and acquisitions and the issuance of sophisticated debt securities. 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Chiu is senior vice president, chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel, litigation for Genesys, a global leader in cloud customer experience and contact center solutions. In that role, he oversees Genesys\u2019 ethics and compliance program, which includes its global anti-corruption\/anti-bribery and trade compliance programs, as well as its litigation docket worldwide.  Before joining Genesys, Chiu was an assistant United States attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served in the national security and criminal divisions of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Central District of California. In 2016, he received the California Lawyer of the Year Award in the national security category from the\u00a0Daily Journal. Before becoming a federal prosecutor, he was with Latham & Watkins LLP and served as a judicial law clerk for Hon. Dana M. Sabraw in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.  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She teaches trial advocacy at the USC Gould School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/tim-chung.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Tim Chung',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/chung-tim\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Timothy Chung is associate general counsel at Westwood Financial, a privately held real estate company owning and managing over 120 shopping centers in 26 metropolitan markets. He is a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law teaching Secured Transactions and Contracts.  At Westwood Financial, Chung is in charge of lease documentation and handles other legal matters in connection with the company\u2019s real estate business including asset management, financing, acquisition and disposition. Chung\u2019s recent experience includes completing restructuring of $1.2 billion in assets, securing financing of $100 million credit facility loan and $100 million senior secured loan. \u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Karen Ciccone.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Karen Ciccone',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/ciccone-karen\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Karen Ciccone is a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law. Her experience includes two decades of legal practice as a civil litigator in Los Angeles in the areas of business, banking, insurance and environmental law. She is currently counsel with Cermak & Inglin, and previously\u00a0was a partner with the national law firm Akerman LLP. Prior to joining Akerman, she spent a decade as the general counsel and corporate secretary for MyRapidMD Corporation, handling all legal matters including negotiation of international licensing agreements, and as counsel for Occidental Petroleum Corporation. 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She is a passionate advocate for employees who have experienced harassment (especially sexual harassment), wrongful termination, retaliation, demotion, violation of leave laws (including the California Family Rights Act and Family Medical Leave Act), violation of California\u2019s wage and hour laws, breach of contract, misclassification and\/or discrimination.Cinar earned her JD at Loyola Law School, where she graduated in 2003. Prior to law school, Cinar earned her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.Cinar is a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law, teaching Employment Discrimination Law. She speaks and writes often on important employment topics. 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Packard Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jessica-clarke\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jessica Clarke writes on antidiscrimination law, with a focus on sex, gender, and sexuality. Her work has appeared in law journals including the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, as well as other outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, Los Angeles Times and Harvard Business Review. She has twice received the Dukeminier Award for the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity.Prior to joining USC, Clarke taught at Vanderbilt Law School, where she held the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and co-directed the George Barrett Social Justice Program, and at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she received the Stanley V. Kinyon award for teacher of the year. In the fall of 2016, she was the Walter V. Schaefer Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and in the fall of 2022, she was the Bruce Bromley Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.Before joining the academy, Clarke was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP in New York. She clerked for Judge Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 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He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst graduating magna cum laude with a double major in journalism and economics.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sabina Clorfeine',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/clorfeine-sabina\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Brandon Coen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/coen-brandon\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/mcohen.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Marshall Cohen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'University Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law, and Dean Emeritus, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/marshall-cohen\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Marshall Cohen\u2019s academic interests are jurisprudence; moral, legal and political philosophy; and the philosophy of art.Cohen has written on a broad number of topics relating to his areas of study, including Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2004), Punishment (edited with A. J. Simmons, J. Cohen and C. Beitz, Princeton University Press, 1995), and Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence (Rowman & Littlefield, 1984).Cohen completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and earned two masters degrees, from Harvard University and Oxford University. A widely respected scholar and professor, he taught at a number of universities, including Yale University and the University of Chicago, before joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty and being named Dean of Humanities at USC in 1983. 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She managed the legal team and litigated cases relating to actors\u2019 compensation, upgrades, meal penalties, the reuse of actor\u2019s performances and residuals. Conley Ulich served on the planning committee and co-moderated panels for topics in the entertainment industry such as: \u201cStrike: The Legal Weapon of Last Resort,\u201d \u201cThe Digital Millennium Copyright Act \u2013 You have to Pay to Play\u201d and \u201cHow to Succeed in Business Without Signing \u2013 When is a Deal a Deal?\u201d for the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Conley Ulich co-authored a leading article on Runaway Production that was published in the Loyola Entertainment Law Review and in the Congressional Record in 2001.Conley Ulich also taught many courses on entertainment and labor law as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine Law School and served as a moot court judge for the National Entertainment Moot Court Competition at Pepperdine Law School from 2001-2009.In addition to practicing and teaching law, Conley Ulich was one of the youngest people elected to serve on the Malibu City Council in 2004 and was re-elected in 2008. She served Malibu as the mayor, mayor pro tem and city councilmember and was termed out of office in 2012.Conley Ulich received her JD from the University of Maryland School of Law, a BA from the University of California, San Diego, and a teaching certificate in higher education pedagogy from Harvard\u2019s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning online.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Cowan_G.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Geoffrey Cowan',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'University Professor of Communication and Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/geoffrey-cowan\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Geoffrey Cowan is a University Professor and dean emeritus who specializes in communications and media law. He holds a joint appointment with the USC Annenberg School for Communication, where he holds the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership and served as Dean from 1996 to 2007. After his tenure as dean, he served as president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands from 2010-2016, and founded the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, which he continues to direct.Cowan is the former director of Voice of America, a position to which he was appointed by President Bill Clinton. He also served as associate director of the United States Information Agency and director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. Earlier, he founded the Center for Law and Social Policy, a public interest agency which has represented civil rights groups, women\u2019s organizations, labor unions, and environmentalists in landmark FCC proceedings. He also is a founding member of the Vera Institute for Justice\u2019s Police Assessment Resource Center Board. In 2001, Cowan was appointed by California Govenor Gray Davis to a bipartisan commission on Internet political practices. In addition, he has worked as a television producer, receiving an Emmy Award as executive producer of the movie \u201cMark Twain And Me.\u201dCowan graduated from Harvard University, where he received his BA, and Yale University, where he earned his LLB. In addition to his numerous scholarly writings, he has authored books including Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary, The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America\u2019s Greatest Lawyer, and See No Evil: The Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence on Television.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['C'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Cruz_D.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David B. Cruz',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Newton Professor of Constitutional Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-b-cruz\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'C',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'David Cruz is a constitutional law expert focusing on civil rights and equality issues, including equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. He specializes in discrimination law and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. He teaches Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II; Federal Courts; Sexual Orientation and the Law; International\/Comparative Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation; Identity Categories; and Law, Identity, and Culture.Before joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1996, Cruz was a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for The Honorable Edward R. Becker, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is past Chair of the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues and co-president of ILGLaw, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Intersex Law Association.Cruz graduated from UC Irvine, and earned his master\u2019s degree from Stanford University. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of New York University Law Review.Cruz\u2019s academic publications include \u201cSpinning Lawrence, or Lawrence v. 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He teaches contracts, contract drafting and negotiation, and commercial paper. He has taught at USC Gould School of Law since 1993.  In 2015, Curtis was awarded the California banking attorney of the year award, the Almon McCallum Award, by the California Bankers Association, a division of the Western Bankers Association. In 2012, UCLA presented Curtis with the Distinguished Instructor Award. The award, presented annually to the top 1 percent of UCLA Extension instructors, recognizes \"exemplary teaching, professional knowledge and outstanding commitment to students.\"  Curtis earned his BA degree with high honors from Eastern Illinois University, and his JD degree from USC Gould School of Law, where he served as vice chair of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. In 2011, he established the James B. Curtis Endowed Scholarship at USC Law. His 2016 gift named the Hale Moot Court Honors Board office at the USC Gould School of Law. His 2022 gift honored his parents, Anne E. and Gerald F. 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Decker served as a United States Attorney, and as such was the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California, a sprawling district based in Los Angeles that encompasses seven counties. Decker oversaw the largest United States Attorney\u2019s Office outside of the District of Columbia, an office that employs approximately 280 attorneys who serve almost 20 million residents. The United States Attorney\u2019s Office prosecutes the entire range of federal criminal offenses, defends the United States in civil actions, and represents government interests in tax matters.After being unanimously confirmed as United States Attorney by the United States Senate on June 11, 2015, Decker was given a four-year appointment by President Barack Obama. As part of her duties, Decker served on five Attorney General Advisory Committees \u2013 Civil Rights, Cyber\/Intellectual Property, Terrorism\/National Security, Violent and Organized Crime, and White Collar\/Fraud. Along with many of her colleagues who were appointed by President Obama, Decker resigned on March 10, 2017.Decker was recently named a Specialist with the Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, a program that allows her to travel overseas to lecture and consult on issues of importance to foreign institutions and governments.Prior to becoming the United States Attorney, Decker was the Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles for nearly six years. As Deputy Mayor, Ms. Decker was responsible for matters related to the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Fire Department, and the Emergency Management Department. In addition, she was the principle liaison for the City of Los Angeles to all federal law enforcement agencies.Decker was an Assistant United States Attorney for almost 15 years, during which time she investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of cases. During her tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, she was the first Chief of the National Security Section. She also served as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Section and as Deputy Chief of Organized Crime Strike Force.Prior to becoming an Assistant United States Attorney, Decker was in private practice for three years at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles. She also served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Gary L. Taylor in the Central District of California.Decker received her undergraduate and law degrees from New York University. She also received a Master\u2019s Degree in Homeland Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and, in 2007, was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School. 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He is a partner in the global law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, with more than three decades of experience and leadership in the legal profession.Emhoff\u2019s areas of expertise span global markets, policy and the law, and he advises corporations, boards of directors and individual clients on significant legal matters, ranging from important business challenges to complex litigation.During his tenure as Second Gentleman, Emhoff represented the Biden-Harris Administration around the country and in diplomatic engagements around the world. Emhoff led the Administration\u2019s efforts to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate, including the development of the first-ever National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism; advocated for equal access to legal aid and the removal of legal barriers in the justice system; promoted small businesses and the arts; convened religious leaders for interfaith dialogues; and advanced U.S. sports diplomacy efforts, including by representing the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup in New Zealand. And, throughout the 107 days of Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential campaign, he crisscrossed the nation campaigning for his wife, engaging with diverse communities, building coalitions, and speaking on behalf of her historic campaign.Prior to his time as a public servant, Emhoff practiced law for nearly 30 years, advising companies and leaders in business and technology hubs worldwide, managing high-profile disputes and solving complex problems across entertainment, media, sports, technology and business.Emhoff earned his JD from USC Gould in 1990 and BA from CSU Northridge in 1987. He previously taught entertainment law and alternative dispute resolution as adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. 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He has lectured at the University of California, at Riverside, where he taught financial planning and real estate investment.  Empey received his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and his BA from UCLA. 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She was previously University Professor of Law & Political Science; and the Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Distinguished Professor of Law at USC. Her research and teaching interests center on law and legal institutions, especially the behavior of judges.She now serves as the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. LouisEpstein is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She also serves as co-director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law and Principal Investigator of the U.S. Supreme Court Database. In addition to her position at the USC Gould School of Law, she is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hebrew University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen in Norway.A recipient of 12 grants from the National Science Foundation, Epstein has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and essays and 18 books, including\u00a0The Behavior of Federal Judges, with William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press) and\u00a0An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, with Andrew D. Martin (Oxford University Press). She is currently co-editing\u00a0The Oxford Handbook on Judicial Behaviour\u00a0(with Gunnar Grendstad, Urska Sadl, & Keren Weinshall). Professor Epstein\u2019s empirical research is frequently cited in the\u00a0New York Times, among other news media.Awards include the Pritchett Award for the Best Book on Law and Courts and the Lasting Contribution Award for research \u201cthat has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts\u201d for\u00a0The Choices Justice Make\u00a0(with Jack Knight); the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association for the\u00a0Constitutional Law for a Changing America\u00a0series; the Lifetime Achievement Award, also from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.View publicationsEpstein teaches courses on constitutional law, judicial behavior, the U.S. Supreme Court, and research design and methods. She is a recipient of Northwestern University School of Law\u2019s Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award. At Washington University, she was named Professor of the Year by the Undergraduate Political Science Association and received a Faculty of the Year Award from the Student Union. 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Fairbank ADR is the successor to Fairbank & Vincent, which Fairbank co-founded in 1996 after beginning his career as an associate (1977-1984) and then partner (1984-1996) at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.In June 2024, Fairbank was recognized for the second year in a row as a Band 1 Nationwide Mediator in the USA by Chambers and Partners (Band 2 in 2021 & 2022; Band 3 in 2020; Recognized Practitioner in 2019). He was recognized by Best Lawyers USA as Los Angeles\u2019 Mediation Lawyer of the Year in 2022, and has been recognized by Best Lawyers USA since 2016.From 2002-2009, Fairbank served as an independent consultant for the Regents of the University of California in the Enron, WorldCom, AOL Time Warner, and Dynegy federal securities cases. He also acted as counsel for boards or independent committees of boards of Mattel, Semtech, and Techniclone in the investigation or defense of threatened or filed derivative actions. His individual director and officer representations included the chief financial officers of IndyMac Bank, PFF Bank, Homestore.com, and Tenet Healthcare Corporation; Board members of La Jolla Bank, Vineyard Bank, and MetroPacific Bank; and officers of New Century Financial and Fidelity Federal Bank.At Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Fairbank had extensive experience in \u201cbet-the-company\u201d cases, including a successful antitrust jury trial for defendant National Gypsum, the successful defense of the first two nationwide conspiracy\/medical malpractice trials involving National Medical Enterprises (now Tenet Healthcare Corporation), and a series of successful trials throughout the country in defense of Farmers Insurance Company in one of the first insurance industry hostile takeovers.Fairbank has been an adjunct professor at Stanford Law and Business Schools (2007) and USC Gould School of Law (2004-present), teaching a seminar titled \u201cCorporate Fraud.\u201d He is also the co-author of California Practice Guide \u2013 Civil Trials and Evidence (The Rutter Group), the leading treatise on California civil trial practice.Fairbank has served as the co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (2001-2002), and the past president of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (1989-1990). He was also a member of the Judicial Council\u2019s Bench and Bar Committee on Local Rules and served as Chair of the Civil Trials Subcommittee (1990-1992).Fairbank received his AB from Stanford University, his MLS from the University of California, Berkeley, and his JD from New York University, where he served on the NYU Law Review. In 1995, he was recognized by the first \u201cLaw Who\u2019s Who\u201d in Los Angeles Business Journal, which features the 100 most prominent business attorneys in Los Angeles.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['F'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Jill Feeney-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jill Feeney',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/feeney-jill\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '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. 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A Harvard-trained forensic and educational psychologist, Felder is pursuing a doctorate in organizational change and leadership at the USC Rossier School of Education. With more than 30 years of trial and appellate experience spanning multiple jurisdictions on the West Coast and Hawai\u2019I, and as a Proctor Member of the Maritime Law Association for 25 years, the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization recognizes Felder as an Admiralty & Maritime Law Specialist. He previously served as corporate counsel for Princess Cruises and Cunard Line, giving him an in-depth understanding of the maritime sector. He also is co-chair of the firm\u2019s LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group and is a Wellness Ambassador.Before joining Wilson Elser, Felder served as a Deputy City Attorney in Los Angeles, where he successfully prosecuted hundreds of criminal violations from arraignment through jury trial, achieving a 98% conviction rate, and having also took part in over 10,000 criminal arraignments. Following a clerkship with the Hon. Wallace Douglass in the Criminal Division of the San Francisco Superior Court, Felder volunteered to train cadets from the Los Angeles Police Department in testifying for various court proceedings. He serves as a special master and discovery referee by special appointment of the Los Angeles Superior Court in executing search warrants that involve privilege holders such as other attorneys and medical providers. He also spent time working in the U.S. Senate, for then-Sen. Al Gore and later for then-Sen. Alan Cranston. He also worked for California Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy.Felder earned his AB in economics from the University of Michigan, followed by a master\u2019s degree in international relations from the University of San Diego and later earned his JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the USF Maritime Law Journal and later served on its board of advisors. Most recently, he completed a second master\u2019s degree in liberal arts for extension studies in psychology at Harvard, where he achieved recognition on the Dean\u2019s List for his academic excellence, including his work focusing on developing grit in educating SOGI minority youth through mentorship in reaching career goals and research in psychology working with the judicial system in reducing recidivism in people suffering addictive behaviors leading to criminal conduct.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['F'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/david-figueroa-10-2024.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David  Figueroa',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/figueroa-david\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'David Figueroa is the executive director of enterprise policy and awareness at Kaiser Permanente. 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At Amblin Partners, he oversaw all motion picture and television business and legal affairs, corporate legal matters and litigation, human resources, international distribution, and merchandising\/ancillary licensing.Immediately prior to his work at the Amblin entities, Floyd was an Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and later General Counsel for DreamWorks Studios, where he was in charge of all in-house counsel, responsible for oversight of all outside counsel, and established all business and legal affairs policies and practices for the company.Earlier in his career, Floyd served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at both Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, where he negotiated numerous negative pick-up and co-financing agreements.\u00a0 He was also a business and legal affairs executive at Walt Disney Pictures. Floyd\u2019s legal career began as a litigator at Hill, Wynne, Troop and Meisinger.Floyd received his law degree from Georgetown University, magna cum laude. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['F'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sarah-fowler-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Sarah Fowler',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sarah Fowler',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/fowler-sarah\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sarah Fowler is senior deputy general counsel at SAG-AFTRA, the union representing approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.\u00a0She is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School and a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law, where she teaches a course on the intersection of labor law and the entertainment industry.Before joining SAG-AFTRA, Fowler was an entertainment litigator, handling right of publicity and privacy lawsuits, mostly on the talent side. 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Frenzen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Sidney M. and Audrey M. Irmas Endowed Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Immigration Clinic',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/niels-w-frenzen\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Niels Frenzen specializes in immigration and refugee law and is director of the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic. He has been teaching at USC since 2000 and practicing law since 1985.Frenzen\u2019s Immigration Clinic students represent clients and work on different projects, including the LGBT Asylum Project and the Immigrant Detention Rights Project. Clinic students provide legal representation, pursuant to student practice rules, to transgender, gay and bisexual immigrants seeking asylum or protection under the Convention Against Torture. Students also work on advocacy and research projects designed to document and improve the conditions of confinement for detained immigrants through comprehensive inspection visits at detention facilities and by conducting interviews with immigrants detained at the facilities. Clinic students also represent clients in other types of cases, including other types of asylum cases, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) immigrant visa petitions, crime victim visas (U visa status petitions), general deportation defense, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Frenzen also writes and blogs about migration from Africa to Europe (http:\/\/migrantsatsea.org and https:\/\/twitter.com\/MigrantsAtSea). Prior to joining USC, Frenzen practiced with non-profit law offices. His experience includes working as directing attorney of the Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles; supervising attorney at the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami; and legislative coordinator of the ACLU of Iowa. He has represented many asylum seekers and other immigrants, has litigated federal court cases challenging the mistreatment of noncitizens, and has litigated immigration court national security cases involving classified evidence. He received his BA from Beloit College and his JD from Drake University Law School. He is admitted to the bars of California, Florida, Iowa, and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['F'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Harvey Friedman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/friedman-harvey\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Harvey R. Friedman has more than 45 years of experience as a civil trial lawyer. He has tried, to conclusion, over 100 jury and non-jury cases in both federal and state courts. Friedman has taken or defended more than 1000 depositions. He has taught new associates in his law firm, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, how to take depositions for more than 20 years.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['F'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Rick Friedman.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Richard Friedman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/friedman-richard\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'F',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Rick Friedman is the CEO and founder of NovusGC, a recently launched law firm which focuses on providing business-oriented general counsel services at an affordable price to startups, innovators and early-stage investors. In this role, NovusGC directly handles the most common types of legal work required by emerging growth companies, including corporate formation, seed and Series A financings, employment and consulting matters, IP licenses and other commercial agreements. The firm also taps into its network of service providers to help clients meet other related needs.Friedman\u2019s prior experience includes serving in senior roles in large law firms such as DLA Piper in Los Angeles and Heller Ehrman in Palo Alto, heading up the technology transfer licensing teams at USC and the University of Texas-Austin, and serving in general counsel roles with public and venture-backed technology companies. Friedman has been teaching Technology Transactions at the USC Gould School of Law since 2015.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Sean Galliher.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sean Galliher',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/galliher-sean\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sean Galliher is in-house counsel with SKECHERS USA, Inc. in Manhattan Beach, Calif. He currently serves on the board of directors for the SKECHERS Foundation, which is a charitable arm of the company. He has been an advocate in numerous arbitrations, negotiations and mediations throughout his career, covering issues such as employment law, insurance claims, personal injury, business issues and international matters.While pursuing his law degree, Galliher interned with the counsel to New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in the capitol building in Albany, N.Y. He also spent 13 years as a trial attorney in New York, conducting jury trails and arguing appeals in New York state and federal court. Galliher was also involved in a federal court case involving Amy Fisher. In 2006, he relocated to southern California where he represented a publishing and casino business before moving on to SKECHERS.Galliher received his JD degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992. He also received an LLM in International Business Law from Boston University School of Law and an LLM in ADR from the USC Gould School of Law. 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He joined USC Gould School of Law in 1981 and taught Constitutional Law; Law, Language, and Values; Law Informed by Faith; and Concepts in American Law. In 2010, Prof. Garet received the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.Garet has written about the authority of the Biblical and constitutional text, about methods of textual interpretation in both fields, and about the meaning of narratives of creation and redemption in American constitutionalism. He is currently working on \u201cTo Secure the Blessings.\u201d His recent work includes: \u201c\u2018Extraordinarily Called upon by the Blessings Which We Have Received,\u2019\u201d(Touro Law Review, 2014), \u201cThe Ten Commandments and the Fourteenth Amendment (Hebraic Political Studies, 2009); \u201cWith Radiant Countenance: Creation, Redemption, and Revelation\u201d (Michigan State Law Review, 2009); and \u201cThe Last Full Measure of Devotion: Sacrifice and Textual Authority\u201d\u00a0(Cardozo Law Review 2006).He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard, his PhD in religious studies from Yale, and his JD from USC Gould. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Society for Policy and Legal Philosophy. He has served as the faculty advisor to the Public Interest Law Foundation; as president of the USC faculty during the 2004-2005 academic year; and as president of the USC chapter of honor society Phi Kappa Phi during the 2013-2014 academic year.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Garman John_thumb.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'John Garman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/garman-john\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'John Garman\u2019s background and experience is in the areas of International Commercial Transactions and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). He is an arbitrator\/neutral and has conducted educational programs in Europe and the U.S., addressing issues concerning diversity, ADR and the international practice of law. Garman currently teaches as a lecturer at the USC Gould School of Law and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd Law School, teaching International Arbitration Competition, International Negotiation\/Mediation and International Commercial Arbitration.Garman is a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has recently been elected to a second term as Chair of the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and is a Neutral on the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA). He is also a Neutral on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panel and is a certified mediator with the International Mediation Institute. He is also on the Attorney Settlement Officer Panel of the United States District Court, Central District of California and a Neutral with the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District.Garman previously served on the Executive Committee of the International Law section of the California Bar and the International Bar Association Task Force to study and evaluate the text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation. He is \u201cOf Counsel\u201d to Hasch & Partners, an Austrian law firm and has offices in Vienna, Austria, and Manhattan Beach, CA. Garman is admitted in California, the District of Columbia and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eric-garner-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Eric Garner',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/garner-eric\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Eric Garner practices water rights and supply law as a managing partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP. He works on surface water and groundwater issues throughout California. For the past two decades, he has worked extensively on groundwater matters. He represented the lead parties in the Santa Maria and Antelope Valley groundwater adjudications, is involved in the Oxnard Pleasant Valley, Cuyama, Indian Wells Valley, Las Posas and Ventura River adjudications and also was involved in the Mojave Groundwater adjudication.\u00a0He was involved in drafting the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and testified before the state Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Water on adjudication reform legislation. He has drafted water laws in South Africa, Trinidad and Pakistan and worked with the United Nations Environmental Programme on incorporating environmental issues into water laws, the World Bank on groundwater issues in the Middle East and North Africa and was the first American Chair of the International Bar Association\u2019s Water Law Committee. Garner also is a member of the newly established International Bar Association\u2019s (IBA) Water Law Advisory Board, serving a two-year term providing leadership and guidance on global policies addressing water rights, access and governance.Garner co-authored \u201cCalifornia Water,\u201d \u201cCalifornia Water II\u201d and \u201cCalifornia Water Third Edition,\u201d and has\u00a0been chosen as a California Lawyer of the Year by\u00a0California Lawyer\u00a0magazine, twice as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the\u00a0Daily Journal, twice as the Water Law Lawyer of the Year in Los Angeles by\u00a0Best Lawyers\u00a0and was one of five lawyers in the United States named MVP of the Year by\u00a0Law360. He is licensed to practice law in the State of California.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-547');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-57');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-31');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah-garry-april-2025.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Hannah Garry',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Donna and Spencer Gilbert Global Justice and Human Rights Center, and Founding Director of the International Human Rights Clinic ',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/hannah-r-garry\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Professor Hannah R. Garry is Clinical Professor of Law, inaugural Faculty Director of the Donna and Spencer Gilbert Global Justice and Human Rights Center and founding Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at USC Gould School of Law. She is an internationally-recognized scholar, teacher and practitioner with over 25 years\u2019 experience, spanning more than 25 countries, in international criminal law, transitional justice, human rights, and international refugee law, and has held prior faculty appointments at University of California Los Angeles School of Law and University of Colorado Law.In 2022, Garry was USC Law\u2019s first US Fulbright Scholar conducting her research on refugee rights in Norway. Her scholarship has been published by Oxford University Press; Kluwer Publishers; T.M.C. Asser Press; Edward Elgar Publishing; the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the European Public Law Journal, the International Journal of Refugee Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice and Berkeley Journal of International Law, among others. She has received funding for her research from the European Union and the Ford, Nuffield and Rotary foundations. She is regularly sought as an expert for media outlets such as the New York Times,\u00a0Newsweek,\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0BBC,\u00a0Reuters, the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0and\u00a0The Hill.Garry has been a recipient of the USC Mellon Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students\u00a0in recognition of her excellence in teaching. She has taught international criminal law, international human rights law and public international law to law and undergraduate students over 16 years. In USC Gould\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic, she has trained over 100 of the next generation of human rights lawyers on cases and projects addressing global justice for atrocities, refugee rights, fair trial rights and gender justice. As Professor of Practice at UCLA Law, she was Executive Director of The Promise Institute for Human Rights, managing a team of eight on programming focused on U.S. and corporate accountability for human rights abuses, racial\/indigenous rights, environmental justice, migration and tech.Garry has held visiting academic positions at Oxford University\u2019s Refugee Studies Centre; the University of Oslo Faculty of Law PluriCourts Centre; the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law; the Peking University Law School Human Rights Research Center; Makerere University\u2019s Institute of Social Research; the International Criminal Court (ICC); the European Court of Human Rights; and the Nuremberg to The Hague summer course during which she has also served as a judge for the International Nuremberg Principles Academy moot court.Garry has extensive experience over 20 years in international and national courts and legislatures, as well as before UN human rights bodies. She provided legal drafting and analysis for over 10 judgments and numerous appeals decisions on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture. Her prior roles include Deputy Chef de Cabinet and acting Chef de Cabinet to Judge Fausto Pocar during his presidency at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber of the Yugoslav and Rwandan Tribunals. She has been senior legal adviser and amicus curiae before the ICC, the Cambodia Tribunal, the Lebanon Tribunal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. When she was an associate at Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer LLP, she assisted Commissioner Lucy Reed on assessment of compensation claims brought by civilians and prisoners of war before the Eritrea Ethiopia Claims Commission. She clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the 11th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. She is admitted to the New York Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar.Garry regularly testifies and drafts expert submissions, including before the ICC and the UN Human Rights Committee on behalf of torture survivors; the UK House of Lords Parliamentary Inquiry on Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan and the ICC Prosecutor\u2019s office on behalf of women and girls; the Canadian House of Commons on Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone crisis; the UN Office of the Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights with respect to systemic racism; and the California State Assembly on human trafficking. Together with experts from the University of Oxford and University of Toronto, she filed a brief on behalf of refugees with the ICC Prosecutor\u2019s office documenting crimes against humanity in Cameroon. She serves on the Clooney Foundation\u2019s Legal Experts Panel for its TrialWatch Initiative providing impartial assessment and reporting on trials under fair trial standards involving journalists, academics, human rights defenders and women and girls. She currently serves on the International Law Association (America Branch) Crimes Against Humanity Treaty study group and co-chairs\/serves on committees drafting proposed text for States on a treaty monitoring mechanism, the duty to prevent crimes against humanity and modes of liability. She also serves on a drafting committee for an experts declaration on recognition of a new norm of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity, coordinated by University of Michigan Law.As a longstanding member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Garry is as an elected member of its Executive Council and Committee. She is also co-chair of its Women in International Law Group. In 2024, she co-chaired the ASIL Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. featuring 50 expert international law panels and hosting over 1,100 attendees. In 2025, she served on ASIL\u2019s Midyear Meeting & Research Forum Committee. Garry also serves on the faculty advisory board for USC\u2019s Shoah Foundation Institute Center for Advanced Genocide Research.Garry holds a Juris Doctorate in Law from UC Berkeley Law where she was managing editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law and recipient of several awards and scholarships in international law and human rights. She obtained a Master\u2019s in International Affairs from Columbia University with high honors, and a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science summa cum laude from Wheaton College. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Forced Migration Studies with distinction from Oxford University where she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.International Judgments Worked on:Cambodian Tribunal (ECCC), Prosecutor v. Nuon Chea et al., Appeal Judgement, 2016Cambodian Tribunal (ECCC), Prosecutor v. Duch Appeals Judgment, 2012Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Blagojevic & Jokic, Appeal Judgment, 2007Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Naletilic & Martinovic Appeals Judgment, 2006Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Momir Nikolic, Sentencing Judgment, 2006Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Kvocka et al., Appeals Judgement, 2005Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Dragan Nikolic, Sentencing Judgment, 2005Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), Prosecutor v. Kordic & Cerkez Appeal Judgment, 2004Rwanda Tribunal (ICTR), Prosecutor v. Kajelijeli Appeals Judgment, 2005Rwanda Tribunal (ICTR), Prosecutor v. 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She has taken and defended numerous party and corporate witness depositions and has extensive drafting experience with summary judgment and other critical motions at the trial level.\u00a0 Currently, Gezerseh is working alongside partner Rahul Ravipudi on behalf of plaintiffs in the Southern California Fire Cases litigation arising from the 2017 Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and subsequent debris flows in Montecito, Calif.\u00a0 Gezerseh is also part of the team representing school districts and other public entities in California involved in the JUUL Labs Product Cases litigation against the electronic cigarette manufacturer.Gezerseh is dedicated to pro bono work and community involvement. While at Jones Day, she fought passionately on behalf of victims of human trafficking and forced labor working with counsel from Bet Tzedek, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice to obtain a six-figure restitution award for the clients in connection with a criminal case against one of the traffickers. Gezerseh serves on the Associate Leadership Board for Public Counsel and is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors at Southwestern Law School, where she chairs the Domestic Violence Advocacy Initiative (DVAI) committee.Recognized as a 2024 Best Lawyers in America, Gezerseh has also been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers list since 2020 and also recognized by her peers as a Southern California Super Lawyers \u201cRising Star\u201d since 2013.\u00a0 She has been featured in Bloomberg Law and ABA for Law Students, and is the author of the Law Career Playbook, the leading networking guide for law students and new lawyers.\u00a0 Gezerseh is currently a lecturer in law at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law.A member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Nevada, Gezerseh received her JD from Southwestern Law School, where she was an associate editor of the Southwestern Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honors Program.\u00a0 During her third year at Southwestern, Gezerseh had the honor of serving as a judicial extern to the (late) Hon. Florence Marie Cooper in the Central District of California.\u00a0 Prior to becoming a lawyer, Gezerseh was a documentary filmmaker and received her BA in Film and Television from the University of California, Los Angeles.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'James Gilliam',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/gilliam-james\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-547');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/matteo-godi-headshot-09-25.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Matteo Godi',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Assistant Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/godi-matteo\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Matteo Godi is a torts scholar who researches and writes about the relationship between tort theory and statutory torts.\u00a0 He teaches a first-year lecture on torts and a seminar on statutory torts.Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty, Godi taught courses on tort law at Yale Law School, where he was a visiting lecturer in law.\u00a0 He also practiced appellate litigation for several years, drafting dozens of merits-stage and certiorari-stage briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and arguing several appeals in state and federal courts.\u00a0 Immediately after law school, Godi clerked for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.After moving from Italy to the United States as the first member of his family to attend college, Godi received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In law school, he was awarded the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize (for the best student paper in law and economics), the Joseph A. Chubb Prize (first prize, for excellence in non-academic legal writing), the Edward D. Robbins Prize (for best student note in a journal other than the Yale Law Journal), and the Charles G. 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Goetz serves as president of the nonprofit company Educational Solutions 4 Change (Es4c), which among other things, offers conflict resolution and mediation training to other nonprofit and governmental groups. In that capacity, he was academic director for a mediation training program offered to the Los Angeles Police Department, Office of the Ombuds (2015), and at the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) (2018-2020). Es4c also delivered conflict resolution training to the leadership teams at the Riverside Community College District (2022).  As a neutral, Goetz serves the public privately, on various public panels, and as an arbitrator and mediator for the LACBA\u2019s Attorney-Client Mediation and Arbitration Services, an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA), and a mediator for the Ventura County Superior Court. He also served as a temporary judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court from 2012-2017. Goetz served four years on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) and was the SCMA president in 2018. The Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Program honored him in 2011 with the \u201cOutstanding Volunteer\u201d award.  Goetz\u2019s extensive business background includes receiving international acclaim for creating the first nationally accredited internet law school, Concord Law School (1998), now part of the Purdue University Global system. He serves on the business department faculty at Moorpark College, teaching classes in Business Law and Introduction to Business. Goetz served the educational community as a commissioner for the Distance Education Accrediting Commission, overseeing the accreditation compliance of many educational institutions offering online classes domestically and internationally (2017-2023).  Goetz advocates for elevating the mediation field by integrating qualifications resembling other professions as well as strengthening public protection in mediation. He currently serves as president of MC3, a nonprofit organization designed to promote greater education and training for mediators through certification and the social justice associated with greater widespread public access to qualified mediators. He was a member of the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution from 2014-2017.  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Through her bankruptcy work, she prepares and files Chapter 7 bankruptcies for low-income debtors, and worked with pro bono counsel to litigate and obtain a published decision in Rivera v. Orange Cnty. Prob. Dep\u2019t (In re Rivera) (9th Cir. 2016) 832 F.3d 1103,1104, which held that a debt arising out of the involuntary incarceration of a debtor\u2019s minor child was not a domestic support obligation and thus was not excepted from discharge.Prior to joining PC, Gonzalez spent nine years at Public Law Center in Orange County. Before that, Gonzalez practiced labor and employment litigation at Loeb & Loeb LLP for three years. While at Loeb & Loeb, Gonzalez was a member of the team that was awarded the State Bar of California\u2019s 2011 President\u2019s Pro Bono Service Award for their work securing asylum for several clients.At USC Gould, Gonzalez was involved with PILF, LAAB, LLSA, and the Immigration Clinic. Since graduating, Gonzalez has been involved with PILF and Gould\u2019s C. David Molina First Generation Professionals Program.Before attending law school, Gonzalez spent five years working in development at the ACLU of Southern California and Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City, and two years working as a community organizer with Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles. Gonzalez earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and theater from the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band and a McNair Scholar.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Christine Goodman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/goodman-christine\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Rupa.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Rupa Goswami',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/goswami-rupa\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' The Hon. Rupa Searight Goswami was appointed to the bench by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. in 2013. Born in India, Goswami grew up in rural Ohio and Florida. Prior to joining the bench, she served as a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for more than 11 years, where she earned the prestigious Director\u2019s Award. As an AUSA, Goswami was recognized by former Attorney General Eric Holder, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Humane Society for her work tackling cyber fraud, environmental crimes, child sex tourism and crimes involving endangered species. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Goswami clerked for Justice Nora M. Manella, then a United States District Judge and for Judge Terence T. Evans of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She was also a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. 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Milliken Professor Emeritus of Law and Taxation. He specializes in studies of income tax and in criminal law. He has taught Contracts, Corporate Taxation, Criminal Law, Topics in Criminology and Federal Income Taxation.Griffith is the author of Federal Income Tax: Examples and Explanations (with Joseph Bankman and Katherine Pratt, Aspen Law & Business, 2002); \u201cGangs, Schools and Stereotypes\u201d (with Linda S. Beres,\u00a0Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 2004); and \u201cProgressive Taxation and Happiness\u201d (\u201cThe State of Federal Income Tax Symposium: Rates, Progressivitiy, and Budget Processes,\u201d\u00a0Boston College Law Review, 2004).A magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, Griffith was an editor on the Harvard Law Review and was an associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston, MA, before joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1984. He also taught at New York University. 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Rothgerber Professor of Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice.Prior to joining Colorado Law in 2010, Gruber was a professor at the University of Iowa School of Law and a founding faculty member at Florida International University Law School. In 2012, the Colorado Law students honored her with the Outstanding New Faculty Member Award. She also delivered the annual Austin W. Scott, Jr. Lecture in 2013 and was awarded the Gilbert Goldstein Fellowship for scholarship in 2015 at Colorado Law. Gruber received the Jules Milstein Award, given to the best Colorado Law faculty work of scholarship in 2017 and 2020. In 2017, Gruber was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where she taught first-year criminal law and a seminar on feminism and crime control.Gruber received her BA in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley,\u00a0summa cum laude\u00a0and her law degree\u00a0magna cum laude\u00a0from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the\u00a0Harvard Women\u2019s Law Journal\u00a0and\u00a0Harvard International Law Journal\u00a0and the founder of the Interracial Law Students\u2019 Association. After law school, Gruber clerked for U.S. District Court judge James L. King in Miami, Fla., and then served as a felony trial attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., and the Federal Public Defender in Miami.Gruber teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and procedure, critical theory, feminism and comparative\/international law. Much of her scholarship focuses on feminist efforts to strengthen carceral responses to crimes against women. Her widely taught and cited articles combine insights from practicing as a public defender with extensive research to articulate a feminist critique of authoritarian laws on violence against women. They appear in leading journals including\u00a0Stanford Law Review,\u00a0California Law Review\u00a0and\u00a0Northwestern Law Review. Her latest article, \u201cSex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law\u201d (Stanford, 2023) explores why the law treats sex crimes as categorically different from other crimes.In 2020, Gruber released her debut monograph\u00a0The Feminist War On Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women\u2019s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\u00a0(UC Press), which PEN America called \u201can exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system.\u201d The book details how feminists, in their quest to secure women\u2019s protection from domestic violence and rape, became soldiers in the war on crime and sketches a path to opposing gender violence without exacerbating American mass incarceration. She is writing a new book tentatively titled\u00a0The Crime of Sex\u00a0(Basic Books, forthcoming) that explores the American fascination with criminalizing sexual behavior. In addition to her writing on gender and crime, Gruber has written a book on comparative criminal procedure, articles on treaty law and human rights, and articles on criminal procedure and privacy. Her scholarship has been covered in diverse publications, including the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0Slate,\u00a0The Guardian,\u00a0Reason Magazine, the\u00a0Harvard Law Review\u00a0and the\u00a0Michigan Law Review.Gruber was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2016 and has been an adviser to the ALI Model Penal Code sexual assault project since 2012. A frequent public speaker on criminal justice, Gruber has appeared on PBS, Fox News, ABC, CBS\u2019 48 hours, and is quoted in various news outlets, including the\u00a0New Yorker,\u00a0Slate\u00a0and the\u00a0New York Times. In 2023, she was featured in the MSNBC film\u00a0The Recall: Reframed, which critically examines the recall of Judge Aaron Persky who presided over the infamous Brock Turner case.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Gruner Photo.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Richard Gruner',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/gruner-richard\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Richard S. Gruner is the former director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He is a member of the New York and California state bars and a graduate of the University of California, Irvine (PhD, Criminology, Law and Society 2008), Columbia University School of Law (LLM 1982), the USC Gould School of Law (JD 1978) and Caltech (BS 1975). He is the co-author (with Shubha Ghosh and Jay Kesan) of Transactional Intellectual Property: From Startups to Public Companies (Carolina Academic Press 4th ed. 2018) and Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity (West 3rd ed. 2016).',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-29');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-30');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-sofia-gruskin-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sofia Gruskin',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Director of Institute on Inequalities in Global Health <br>Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Law<br> Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sofia-gruskin\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sofia Gruskin directs the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health\u00a0(IIGH). She is Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Law, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Disease Prevention, Policy and Global Health Division at the Keck School of Medicine; and Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine at the Gould School of Law. Within USC, she is highly engaged in university service, including serving as a member of the USC President\u2019s Faculty Advisory Committee. Gruskin was awarded USC\u2019s highest academic honor, a Distinguished Professorship, in March 2024.Gruskin currently sits on numerous international boards and committees, including\u00a0the Lancet\u2013WHS Academic Alliance Commission on Academic Responsibility, Trust in Science, and Societal Change\u00a0and the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights. Most recently she was also a member of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board; the Lancet\u00a0Commission on Gender and Global Health; and the Lancet\u00a0Commission on Health and Human Rights. Professor Gruskin has published extensively, including several books, training manuals and edited journal volumes, and more than 200 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics. She is an associate editor for Global Public Health, on the editorial advisory board for\u00a0Revue Tiers Monde, and a trustee of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. Previously, she served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health\u00a0and editor-in-chief for Health and Human Rights,\u00a0both for over a decade.A pioneer in bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to global health, Gruskin\u2019s work \u2014 which ranges from global policy to the grassroots level \u2014 has been instrumental in developing the conceptual, methodological and empirical links between health and human rights. With a long-standing focus on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, child and adolescent health, gender-based violence, non-communicable disease, and health systems, Gruskin\u2019s work also seeks to address the manifestations of inequalities in a range of areas, including sustainability, climate change, and the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging pandemics.Research partners include the LA Mayor\u2019s Office of International Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the International AIDS Society,\u00a0Durex\/Reckitt Benckiser as well as local organizations and universities in Brazil, Kenya, India, South Africa, Uganda and Vietnam.In recent years, Gruskin served on the board of directors for the Guttmacher Institute; the Institute of Medicine\u2019s Committee on the Outcome and Impact Evaluation of Global HIV\/AIDS Programs Implemented under the Lantos\/Hyde Act of 2008; the UN Technical Advisory Group for the High-Level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents; the Technical Advisory Group of the UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law; the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights; and the Global Advisory Board on Sexual Health and Wellbeing. Gruskin was with Harvard University\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health for many years, during which time she served as director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights; associate professor in the department of Global Health and Population; and co-founder and co-director of the Interdepartmental Program on Women, Gender and Health.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/sarah-hall.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sarah Gruzas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Director of Graduate and International Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sarah-gruzas\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sarah Hall Gruzas is director of the Graduate and International Programs office. She also teaches Presentation Skills for International Lawyers and Academic and Professional Skills for U.S. Law Studies II as part of the Two-Year LLM. Hall earned her JD degree from USC Gould in 2010, where she served as a board member on the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. She previously earned her BA in Economics from Swarthmore College.Hall also manages the career development program for the LLM, MDR and MSL students. In this role, she counsels current students and alumni on how to navigate the U.S. legal market, as well as how to prepare for and apply to a U.S. bar exam. She holds several workshops over the course of the year to teach students how to create a U.S.-style resume and cover letter, as well as how to effectively present themselves in interviews and networking events. In addition to her work with current students, Hall is involved with the planning, development, marketing, and recruiting process for other graduate law programs.Prior to returning to USC, Hall practiced securities litigation at O\u2019Melveny and Myers LLP for almost four years. In her time at O\u2019Melveny, Hall handled a variety of complex civil litigation matters, focusing on securities, class actions, and breach of contract claims. As an associate, she gained experience in developing case strategies, drafting motions, attending depositions and preparing matters for trial and mediation.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Guggenheim_Daniel_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Danny Guggenheim',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/guggenheim-danny\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Danny Guggenheim is a member in the Los Angeles office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., and dedicates the bulk of his practice to the representation of private equity funds, real estate companies, non-bank lenders and other investors in connection with commercial real estate joint ventures, financings, acquisitions and dispositions.He has been recognized with the \u201cAV Preeminent\u201d peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell since 2015, and has been included in The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Real Estate Law since 2014, and in the Southern California Super Lawyers list since 2017.Guggenheim speaks frequently on a variety of real estate topics, and is the author or co-author of \u201cHVCRE-What? Managing Uncertainty Around HVCRE Loans,\u201d Commercial Property Executive (June 7, 2017), \u201cProgrammatic JVs: Structural Distinctions, Key Considerations,\u201d Commercial Property Executive (July 6, 2016), \u201cThe IRR Ate My Capital! How IRR Hurdles in Real Estate JVs May Cannibalize Contributions Made After Promote Distributions,\u201d Commercial Property Executive (April 21, 2015), \u201cContribution Default Remedies in a Real Estate Venture,\u201d Business Entities (November\/December 2013), and \u201cImportant Issues in Purchasing and Resolving Distressed Real Estate Debt,\u201d BNA Inc. Real Estate Industry & Law Report (March 2009). He also holds a California real estate broker license.Guggenheim received his BA in 2000 from Columbia University, and his JD in 2004 from the University of Southern California. While at USC Gould, he served as an Introduction to Lawyering Skills (ILS) instructor and as president of the Student Bar Association, was a member of the National Moot Court Team, and received the Shattuck Award for Leadership as well as the Order of the Laurel and Palm Award for Leadership and Service. Guggenheim served on the USC Gould Alumni Association\u2019s Executive Committee from 2014-2016 as chair of regional programs, and remains an active member of the USC Gould community.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/R Guidero 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Roxana Guidero',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/guidero-roxana\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Roxana Guidero is counsel at O\u2019Melveny & Myers LLP. She has represented corporate clients and individuals in some of the most high-profile and challenging trials across the country. Her practice has spanned an array of industries and specialties, including entertainment, media, sports, antitrust, general commercial litigation, product liability and white collar crime.She earned her JD from the University of Berkeley School of Law, after spending a year at Harvard Law School as a visiting scholar, and received her BA in political science from UCLA. Before starting her career in private practice, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Alex Kozinski.Guidero teaches Contracts at USC Gould.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-31');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['G'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/andrew-guzman-033115.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Andrew T. Guzman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost\u2019s Chair, and Professor of Law and Political Science',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/andrew-t-guzman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'G',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Andrew T. Guzman is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Southern California. He holds the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost\u2019s Chair and is also Professor of Law and Political Science. Guzman previously served as dean of the USC Gould School of Law, where he held the Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law.A noted expert in international law and economics, Guzman has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment and public international law. His work has addressed international tribunals, soft law, the safety of imported products and climate change. In addition, his interdisciplinary research examines problems across the range of public and private international law.An interdisciplinary scholar, Guzman has served on the boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law, where he currently sits on the Editorial Advisory Board. He also served as a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and as an international arbitrator. He is the author of Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, How International Law Works and International Trade Law.Under his leadership, USC Gould has made significant strides, educationally and institutionally. Guzman has focused on strengthening the quality of the JD program, expanding academic offerings and growing the law school\u2019s faculty expertise. He has made a commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives school-wide. Guzman has prioritized and invested in student support, wellness and career development. Further, he has broadened the impact of Gould\u2019s teaching mission through undergraduate education, specialized master\u2019s degrees and certificates, and has launched innovative programs that enrich the student experience at Gould.Prior to joining USC, Guzman was a professor of law and associate dean at UC Berkeley, where he directed the International and Executive Legal Education Program. He has also taught at as a visiting professor at numerous law schools in the U.S. and across the globe, including Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, the University of Hamburg and the National University Law School in Bangalore, India.Guzman earned his JD and PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where he was the Books & Commentaries Editor for the Harvard Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Nathaniel Haas 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Nathaniel Haas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/haas-nathaniel\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Nathaniel Haas is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Watstein Terepka LLP.\u00a0His practice includes complex commercial litigation, regulatory and governmental affairs, and internal investigations. He teaches LAW 520: Introduction to the American Legal System as a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law.Haas clerked for the Honorable Morgan B. Christen on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2020-21. He received his law degree from the USC Gould School of Law, and also received his undergraduate degree in political science and economics from USC.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David Habib',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/habib-david\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/MarkHaddad7-13-20.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mark Haddad',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/haddad-mark\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mark E. Haddad was a partner for 26 years at Sidley Austin LLP, where he served as co-chair of the firm\u2019s Supreme Court and Appellate practice. He served as a law clerk for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court, and for the Hon. Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He earned his JD from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He is a Rhodes Scholar and received his MA from Oxford University with first class honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and his AB with honors and distinction in History from Stanford University.Haddad has argued cases in the United States Supreme Court, in the supreme courts of four states, and in federal and state appellate courts throughout the country. His matters have involved the impact of federal constitutional, statutory and regulatory provisions on individual rights and business liability, and have arisen in a variety of areas, including administrative law, antitrust law, constitutional law (commerce clause, due process, equal protection, First and Eighth Amendments, federalism and preemption), intellectual property, products liability and professional responsibility. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer by many references, including Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500 US, and Super Lawyers.Haddad speaks on the Supreme Court at law schools, conferences and roundtables, and in response to press inquiries. His comments on the constitutionality of methods of execution were featured by Bill Moyers on billmoyers.com and by Nina Totenberg on NPR. He led interviews with California Supreme Court Justices Mariano-Florentino Cue \u00b4llar (2017), Leondra Kruger (2016), and Goodwin Liu (2015) at conferences hosted by the Institute for Corporate Counsel at the USC Gould School of Law, and with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (2009) at a meeting sponsored by Town Hall-Los Angeles. \u201cBring Down the Walls,\u201d a recollection of his clerkship with Justice Brennan, appears in The Common Man as Uncommon Man: Remembering Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., at 1-2, E.J. Rosenkranz & T. Jorde, eds. (NYU: Brennan Center for Justice 2006).Haddad has received awards from the ACLU Foundation for Southern California (in 2017 and 2003) for pro bono appellate work in the areas of immigration rights and criminal justice reform, and from the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems (2001) for the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. Haddad\u2019s work also has contributed to Sidley\u2019s recognition for pro bono service, including in 2016 and 2015 as Law Firm of the Year for pro bono service by Public Counsel and by the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, respectively. 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She negotiates high-level deals for the Original Film group\u2019s growing slate of original motion pictures. Prior to Netflix, Haffner was senior vice president of Business and Legal Affairs at Entertainment One, where she negotiated motion picture development, production, financing and distribution deals for eOne and its partner companies, including Makeready, The Mark Gordon Company and Hopscotch.Before eOne, Haffner spent six-and-a-half years in the Motion Picture Group at Paramount Pictures negotiating agreements for films including \u201cFlight,\u201d \u201cNebraska,\u201d \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\u201d and \u201cGI Joe 2.\u201d Prior to joining Paramount, Haffner was a business affairs lawyer at The Weinstein Company, and negotiated deals for \u201cAugust: Osage County,\u201d \u201cHalloween\u201d and numerous other productions.Haffner started her in-house studio career at Warner Bros. Pictures working on \u201cThe Departed\u201d and \u201cSuperman Returns.\u201d Prior to becoming an in-house studio lawyer, she spent several years in private practice representing talent in their negotiations with studios. She started her legal career at Richards, Watson & Gershon in downtown Los Angeles.Haffner received her JD, cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law. While at Tulane, sheJulie was the senior managing editor of theTulane Environmental Law Journal, and published her case note. She was also a senior fellow\/teaching assistant for the Law School\u2019s Legal Research and Writing Program, as well as a student attorney in Tulane\u2019s Environmental Law Clinic. She received her BA cum laude, with departmental honors in Political Science, from Barnard College of Columbia University. At Barnard, she was awarded the coveted Bear Pin for student leadership, and was the editor in chief of the Barnard College yearbook as well as a charter class member of the Columbia University chapter of Alpha Chi Omega.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Bob Hagle',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/hagle-bob\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Bob Hagle teaches Contract Drafting and Negotiation at the USC Gould School of Law. Hagle recently retired as a partner with the law firm Rutan & Tucker LLP, where he specialized in real estate and corporate finance. 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Hagle began his career at a national firm where he specialized in bankruptcy reorganizations and creditors\u2019 rights and subsequently held in-house counsel positions at financial institutions.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/clay-halvorsen-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Clay Halvorsen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/halvorsen-clay\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Clay Halvorsen (JD 1985) teaches Business for Lawyers, designed to empower law students with the basic principles and practices of contemporary business so they can effectively advise and provide legal services to businesses and other clients. Key business concepts covered in the course include accounting, finance, risk management, negotiation, and leadership.Halvorsen\u2019s extensive business experience includes serving for more than a decade as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of The Irvine Company LLC, a diversified, privately held real estate investment company and master planner of the Irvine Ranch. Halvorsen\u2019s past roles include executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Standard Pacific Homes, a Fortune 500 company engaged in the homebuilding, mortgage and title businesses.Halvorsen began his career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a leading international law firm, where he was elected as a partner in the firm\u2019s corporate finance group. In this role he represented private and public start-ups, middle-market companies and large corporations in a wide variety of industries and transactions, including acquisitions, financings and securities law matters.In 2022, Halvorsen founded Halvorsen Coach + Advise which provides leadership executive coaching and advice to a wide variety of C-Suite executives, entrepreneurs, middle managers and attorneys. He also served as the interim CEO of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, a Laguna Beach-based nonprofit that rescues, rehabilitates and releases stranded marine mammals and performs related research and education. Halvorsen also served as a trustee on the board of Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT), a publicly traded specialty finance company that invests primarily in residential mortgage loans and mortgage related assets.Halvorsen earned his law degree, with honors, from USC. 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His passion is teaching mediation and conflict resolution at the academic and corporate level as well as assisting in the creation and coordination of peer mediation programs. He received his master\u2019s degree in negotiation, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and his mediation training from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Heilman_John.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'John Heilman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/heilman-john\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'John Heilman is a long-time lecturer at USC Gould School of Law. He has taught Community Property at the law school for many years. He also teaches two courses in our LLM program: Topics in American Law and Introduction to American Legal Systems. He was voted\u00a0 Adjunct Professor of the Year at the law school in 2008, 2010, and 2016.Heilman is also an alumnus of USC. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a BS degree from Northwestern University. He moved to Southern California to attend USC Gould where he was a notes and articles editor of the Southern California Law Review. Heilman graduated from the law school in 1982. He came back to USC as a student to earn a MA in Public Administration in 2007 and subsequently a MA degree in Real Estate Development in 2009.Heilman also teaches at Southwestern Law School. He has been named one of the Professors of the Year for the last five years at Southwestern.In addition to teaching, Heilman is a long-time councilmember in the City of West Hollywood and served as mayor on eight previous occasions. He was actively involved in the incorporation of the city in 1984. Heilman was elected to the first City Council of West Hollywood in November 1984. He served as Mayor of the city in 1985, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2010 and 2017. Heilman was re-elected to the City Council in November 2022.Heilman has been an active member of the National League of Cities. He has served on the board of both the National League of Cities and the California League of Cities. He currently serves on the Legal Committee of the National League of Cities. He is a past board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Local Government Commission. He is also the past president of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Local Officials Group and past co-chair of the International Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials. 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Heller',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/heller-william-p\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Bill Heller is a Lecturer in Law at the USC Gould School of Law and Executive Director of the Law+AI Initiative, a collaboration between USC Gould and Akerman LLP. A nationally recognized litigator and governance advisor, Heller draws on more than three decades of practical experience to guide legal strategies surrounding emerging technology and market competition.As Executive Director of the Law+AI Initiative, Heller leads a team translating rapid developments in courts, regulatory agencies, and policy into practical frameworks, guidance, and tools for responsible AI adoption. He will bring this focus to his upcoming lecturing at USC Gould, where his courses \u2014 including AI litigation and related areas \u2014 will emphasize how fast-evolving technology impacts real-world litigation risk, compliance obligations, and governance expectations.Heller brings an essential practitioner\u2019s perspective to the classroom and the Initiative from his ongoing practice as a partner at Akerman LLP. He founded and chairs the firm\u2019s Consumer Financial Services, Data & Technology (CFS+) Practice and serves on the firm\u2019s Board of Directors, following 15 years on the Executive Committee. His extensive record includes first-chairing jury trials and arbitrations nationwide and leading over 1,500 appeals addressing novel issues across various jurisdictions.Heller earned his JD from the University of Miami School of Law and his BA, with honors, from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Consistently recognized for his legal expertise in Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, and The Best Lawyers in America, he remains deeply committed to community service. 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Fifth Season is the studio behind the Emmy-nominated project Severance (Apple TV+), as well as the critically acclaimed Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), Life and Beth (Hulu), Tokyo Vice (HBO Max) and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime) among others.At Fifth Season, Hime leads the scripted television business and legal affairs team responsible for the negotiation of studio licenses, co-productions, rights acquisition, writer, producer, director, and talent agreements. Hime also oversees Fifth Season\u2019s business and legal affairs operations in connection with documentary series, music, and live events as well as the intellectual property, and litigation practice group.In 2022, Hime was recognized as a leading Hollywood dealmaker by Variety Magazine in its Dealmakers Report.\u00a0 In 2009, Hime was recognized as a Rising Star in the areas of Entertainment and Intellectual Property law by Los Angeles Magazine.Prior to joining Fifth Season, Hime began his legal career in the litigation department at Irell and Manella LLP, specializing in media and entertainment and spent over 11 years at Viacom Media Networks, serving in a variety of business and legal capacities on over one hundred projects for Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon and other programing services.Hime joined USC Gould School of Law as a lecturer in law in 2017, and also serves as an adjunct professor of Television and Digital Media, Business and Legal Affairs, and Intellectual Property in Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Masters in Entertainment Industry Management program.Hime earned his JD, Order of the Coif, from USC Gould, where he received the Hon. Warren J. Ferguson Award and was an editor of the Southern California Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christina-hioureas-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Christina Hioureas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/hioureas-christina\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Christina Hioureas is a Visiting Professor at USC Gould School of Law and teaches\u00a0Human Rights and Climate Change. Hioureas is a partner and Global Co-Chair of Foley Hoag LLP\u2019s International Litigation & Arbitration Department, and Chair of the firm\u2019s United Nations Practice Group. She represents States and State-owned entities in international disputes and public international law matters before international courts and tribunals and the United Nations, including on matters involving climate change, human rights, decolonization, anti-corruption, technology, construction, and energy. She has argued cases before all major arbitral bodies and arbitral rules (ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, ICDR, AAA, SIAC, Swiss Rules), before the United Nation\u2019s principle judicial organ \u2014 International Court of Justice (ICJ), as well as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and regional human rights tribunals. She advises States on matters before the United Nations and its bodies, including the UN General Assembly and the Security Council. Hioureas also frequently serves as presiding, sole, emergency, and co-arbitrator in international disputes.Hioureas was recognized as one of the \u201cTop 10 Most Innovative Lawyers\u201d (2024) by the\u00a0Financial Times. She has also three times been awarded the Center for Justice and Accountability\u2019s \u201cPartners in Justice\u201d award for her work on transitional justice in Somalia, Cambodia, and Chile. She has received repeated recognition from\u00a0Chambers & Partners \u2013 Global\u00a0and\u00a0USA\u00a0in the areas of Public International, International Arbitration, and as an Arbitrator; as well as by\u00a0Who\u2019s Who Legal \u2013 Arbitration\u00a0as a \u201cThought Leader\u201d and \u201cMost Highly Regarded Partner- the Americas,\u201d and has served as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).Hioureas received her BA (highest honors) from the University of California Berkeley in Political Science and Peace & Conflict Studies, and her JD at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in International Law and served as the Managing Editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Her publications include co-authorships, \u201cThawing the \u2018Regulatory Chill\u2019 Effects of Investor State Claims,\u201d in the\u00a0Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution International Arbitration Review\u00a0(2025); \u201cClimate, State, and Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Sea Level Rise,\u201d\u00a0Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University\u00a0(2021); \u201cLegal and Political Considerations with Respect to the Disappearance of States,\u201d in\u00a0New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea\u00a0(Brill, 2020); and \u201cThe Singapore Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation: A New Way Forward?\u201d in the\u00a0Berkeley Journal of International Law\u00a0(2019), \u201cTransatlantic Environmental Regulation-Making,\u201d in\u00a0Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: The Shifting Roles of the EU, the US and California, (Edward Elgar Publications, 2011), among others.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Dan Hiser',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/hiser-dan\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/HoffstadtB.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Brian Hoffstadt',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/hoffstadt-brian\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Brian M. Hoffstadt is the presiding justice for one of the divisions of the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles. Prior to serving as a presiding justice, he served as an associate justice on the Court of Appeal for over a decade; four years as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge; three and a half years as a partner in Jones Day\u2019s Issues and Appeals practice group; more than six years as an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting criminal cases; and three years in legal policy work in Washington, D.C. Right out of law school, he clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor. For many years, Hoffstadt has been a teacher to judges, lawyers and law students on a variety of topics. 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She also served as the executive editor of Hastings Women\u2019s Law Journal (now Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law), board member for Black Law Students Association and a board member for Hastings Moot Court, during which time she was awarded National Champion, First Place Oralist, and Second Place Brief of the Cardozo\/BMI Entertainment and Media Moot Court competition.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['H'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/renny_hwang_usc.png',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Renny Hwang',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/hwang-renny\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'H',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Renny is Deputy General Counsel for OpenAI. 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Jenkins holds appointments as professor of public policy, political science, and law at the USC Gould School of Law and Provost Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Law, Judith & John Bedrosian Chair of Governance and the Public Enterprise, Director of the Bedrosian Center, and Director of the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. He previously held tenure-stream positions at the University of Virginia, Northwestern University, and Michigan State University.His research interests include American political institutions and development (with a special emphasis on Congress and political parties), lawmaking, separation-of-powers, and political economy. Much of his work takes a positive political theory (or rational choice) approach, and examines how political actors pursue their interests while being constrained by formal and informal institutional arrangements. 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He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Michigan State University.He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of\u00a0The Journal of Politics.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['J'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/mike-jenkins.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Michael Jenkins',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/jenkins-michael\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'J',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Michael Jenkins is a partner with the law firm of Best Best & Krieger, LLP and specializes in the practice of municipal law. He currently serves as city attorney for the cities of Goleta (since 2017), Hermosa Beach (since 1996), Rolling Hills (since 1982) and West Hollywood (since 1984) and as general counsel to the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District, the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, the Westside Cities Council of Governments and the Harbor Community Benefit Foundation.  He served as president of the City Attorneys Department of the League of California Cities (1993), co-authored the original version of the league\u2019s Municipal Law Handbook and chaired the league\u2019s Brown Act Committee from 1994 to 2016. He served as editor for Open & Public V, the league\u2019s manual on the Brown Act. Jenkins also served as president of the City Attorneys Association of Los Angeles County and member of the Executive Committee of the Public Law Section of the State Bar, as well as editor of the section newsletter.  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His areas of interest include trial advocacy, criminal justice, business litigation and public interest law.Johnson currently operates his own law practice in Los Angeles, where he represents individuals and entities charged with complex criminal offenses in state and federal courts. He is also a member of the federal indigent defense panel in Los Angeles, where he represents indigent clients before the United States District Court in Los Angeles and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Previously, he was a trial attorney with the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and Baltimore, and a litigation attorney with a law firm in Washington, D.C.Johnson earned his BS at the University of Maryland at College Park and his JD from the University of Maryland School of Law (Order of Barristers). In law school, he was a member of the National Trial Team and the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Robert M. Bell, chief judge for the Court of Appeals of Maryland and the Hon. Alexander Williams, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. He also received his MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, where he lived and taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in business and law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-25');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-32');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['J'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/USC_GSL_Web_Preferred_Mugambi_Jouet_20220825.png',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mugambi Jouet',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/mugambi-jouet\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'J',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mugambi Jouet\u2019s research focuses on American exceptionalism, criminal justice, and comparative history from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is an expert on the distinctive historical evolution of American law, government, and sociopolitical culture compared to other Western democracies.His scholarship has notably analyzed the death penalty, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, guns, abortion, international relations, and the historiography of key concepts, from \u201cAmerican exceptionalism\u201d to the \u201cWestern world.\u201d In 2022, he won the Brophy Prize for the article that \u201cmost significantly breaks new ground and adds new insights to the study and understanding of United States legal history.\u201d In 2025, he received the William A. 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His commentary has been featured in\u00a0The New Republic, Slate, Boston Review, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, Lib\u00e9ration, Le Nouvel Observateur\u00a0and\u00a0Le Monde, France\u2019s flagship newspaper.Before joining USC in 2022, he was a law professor at McGill University following a Grey Fellowship at Stanford Law School. A member of the New York bar, he previously represented numerous indigent prisoners, from homicide cases to the \u201cWar on Drugs,\u201d in Manhattan and the Bronx. He equally served as a judicial clerk at the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, and as an assistant clinical law instructor at Sciences Po in Paris. 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He has mentored transactional law students at several leading law schools including Vanderbilt University Law School, UCLA School of Law, and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.From a transactional lawyer\u2019s perspective, Kaufman teaches courses that address business associations, commercial law including secured transactions, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and compliance, syndicated loan transactions and other current issues in transactional practice. When feasible, Kaufman combines the doctrinal elements of his subject matter with the experiential. He uses hypotheticals based on actual transactions to help students understand the inherent and external risks involved, while also developing lawyering skills to mitigate those risks.Kaufman was a long-time partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP handling matters primarily from their Chicago and New York offices. He founded and, for many years, supervised the firm\u2019s Debt Finance Group and chaired the firm\u2019s Opinions Committee. Now of counsel to the firm, Kaufman continues to participate in its professional training programs and to advise on internal risk management matters and client transactions.At Vanderbilt, Kaufman served as an adjunct professor from 2005-2009. In 2009, he was appointed their first professor of the practice of law for the Law and Business Program, a position he held for next three years. He spent the 2012-13 academic year at UCLA, where he served as professor from practice and the initial executive director of UCLA\u2019s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. He began offering his transactional weekend short courses at the USC Gould School of Law in 2008, and he continues to present them regularly at both Vanderbilt and USC.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kaufman-jeremy-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jeremy Kaufman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kaufman-jeremy\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jeremy Kaufman is a seasoned IP attorney, entertainment industry executive and management consultant. He has worked at Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix and now Versant, where he leads the IP & Music Team. Throughout his career he has helped grow and protect many iconic franchises from The Muppets to Avatar to Stranger Things. He has worked on all facets of media creation and exploitation, and his expertise includes copyright, trademark, right of publicity, defamation and emerging technologies. He has taught Art Law at Claremont Graduate University and frequently lectures at law schools and conferences on a wide array of business and legal issues. He has served as a board member of non-profit art organizations and legal societies.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Ross-Kay1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ross Kay',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kay-ross\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Ross Kay teaches Transactional Due Diligence in the LLM program. Kay is senior vice president and general counsel at J.F. Shea Co., Inc. Shea is one of the oldest and largest privately held operations in the country and has earned a prominent position among real estate, construction and home building companies. Prior to his work at Shea, Kay was assistant general counsel at KB Home. He earned his JD degree from Santa Clara University School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Kaye_Barry-web.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Barry Kaye',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kaye-barry\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Barry Kaye teaches Corporate Governance, as well as Negotiation Theory and Application at the USC Gould School of Law. He has also supervised a course on Directed Research and has lectured at the USC Summer Law and English (SLE) program for LLM students. Prior to teaching at USC, Kaye taught in the business law department at UC Berkeley Law. Kaye\u2019s entrepreneurial character and versatile skill set have allowed him to move between law and business and weave a unique private practice. His professional experience and expertise includes real estate, corporate formation and governance and finance.  After graduating from law school, Kaye clerked for U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk in Los Angeles and then briefly for U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima who was then sitting by designation on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. He worked behind the scenes on copyright and trademark infringement cases along with securities, criminal, insurance coverage and a host of other federal matters. Kaye completed a BA degree at Yeshiva University in 1990 and his JD at Cardozo School of Law in 1994.\u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-555');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greg-keating.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Gregory Keating',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/gregory-keating\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Gregory C. Keating is William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy at the USC Gould School of Law; his appointment is joint with the USC Department of Philosophy. He joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1996. He teaches torts, professional responsibility, and seminars on topics in private law and legal philosophy.Keating graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, earned an MA and PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and graduated\u00a0magna cum laude\u00a0from Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he practiced law in Massachusetts for five years before joining USC Gould. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard and Yale Law Schools, at the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel, and at the law faculty of the Universidad Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Law School in Santiago, Chile.Keating is the author of Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts (Oxford, 2022). \u00a0Reasonableness and Risk was awarded 2024 Civil Justice Scholarship Award, awarded annually by the National Civil Justice Institute to work that supports the American Civil Justice system.He is also an editor of Keeton et al, Tort and Accident Law (5th edition forthcoming 2023). He writes on torts, professional responsibility and legal theory. He has published articles on the morality of reasonable risk imposition and the law of negligence more generally; on the history of and moral justification for strict liability in tort; on why justice requires that we take inefficiently great precaution against significant risks of death and devastating injury; and on issues of professional responsibility, with particular attention to the problems that confront practicing lawyers. Some of his recent articles and book chapters are: Pouring Old Wine into New Skins: The Case of Self-Driving Cars forthcoming in Ellen Bublick & John Goldberg, eds. A Research Agenda for Torts (forthcoming, 2025); Is the Third Restatement of Design Defect a Defective Product? 52 Southwestern Law Review 399 (2024); Putting \u201cDuty\u201d Back on Track, 16 Journal of Tort Law 301 (2023); Irreparable Injury and the Limitations of the Law of Torts, John Oberdiek & Paul Miller, (eds.) Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume II (2023); Enterprise Liability, Martin Petrin & Christian Witting, eds. Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (forthcoming, 2023); Form and Function in Tort Theory, 15 Journal of Tort Law, 1 (2022); Form and Substance in the \u201cPrivate\u201d Law of Torts, 14 Journal of Tort Law 45 (2021); Corrective Justice: Sovereign or Subordinate?, Henry Smith et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, 37-52 (2020); Principles of Risk Imposition and the Priority of Avoiding Harm, 36 Revus J. for Const. Theory & Phil. of Law 7 (2018); and Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Only Game in Town?, 91 Southern California L. Rev. 195 (2018).A former teaching fellow at Harvard and Princeton universities, Keating served as an officer of the Section on Jurisprudence of the American Association of Law Schools. 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At USC, he teaches evidence and judicial decision-making.Kenneth\u2019s scholarship was published or is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review, Law & Philosophy, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Duke Law Journal Online, among others.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/karla-kerlin-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Judge Karla Kerlin',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kerlin-judge-karla\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Judge Karla Kerlin was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008. Judge Kerlin currently presides over three collaborative courts: the Office of Diversion & Reentry (ODR) Housing Court, which provides housing and mental health treatment to homeless individuals with severe mental health disorders; the Department of State Hospitals Diversion Program, which is a grant-funded Mental Health Diversion program; and, the Maternal Health Court for women who are incarcerated and pregnant. These programs are alternatives to incarceration and are designed to divert defendants from jail into service-enriched housing with mental health treatment and wraparound services. Judge Kerlin frequently trains other judges on issues related to mental health diversion and collaborative courts.Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Kerlin was a deputy district attorney for 18 years with the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office. 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In that capacity, Judge Kerlin trained child abuse prosecutors from across the country.Judge Kerlin has a BS in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and a JD from Southwestern Law School.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anthony-khoury-scaled.jpeg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Anthony Khoury',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/khoury-anthony\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Anthony Khoury has more than 20 years of experience in the legal industry, and in addition to currently finishing his LL.M. in Dispute Resolution at the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, he is serving on the neutral panels for the Mediation Center of Los Angeles (MCLA) and Alternative Resolution Centers (ARC), as well as on the American Arbitration Association (AAA) Panel of Employment Arbitrators.Prior to embarking on a new path as a mediator and an arbitrator in 2023, Khoury had the honor of serving as a Court Commissioner in Kern County where he presided over very diverse calendars in a multi-divisional court. During his time on the bench in Kern County, Khoury created a civil mediation program for limited civil, small claims, unlawful detainer, and civil harassment matters, and he created a voluntary settlement program for family law matters. He also served as a mandatory settlement conference judge for unlimited civil matters.Prior to taking the bench, Khoury ran a successful law practice for over a decade, specializing in civil, business, and employment law litigation. His stellar track record as an attorney led to his appointment as an alternate member of the State Bar of California\u2019s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) in 2021. Since leaving the bench, he has become a member of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) Mentorship Program, and he is a co-leader of SCMA\u2019s Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Professional Development Group, and a co-leader of the Employment Mediation Professional Development Group.Khoury has previously served as a Professor of Law teaching legal ethics at Abraham Lincoln University School of Law. As a Lecturer in Law at USC Gould School of Law, Khoury teaches Arbitration in the United States.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beong-soo-kim-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'USC interim president Beong-Soo Kim',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Beong-Soo Kim',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kim-beong-soo\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'As the 13th President of the University of Southern California, Beong-Soo Kim leads one of the world\u2019s top private research universities \u2014 home to 23 schools; more than 46,000 students; 4,700 faculty; 500,000 alumni; and Keck Medicine of USC, one of California\u2019s leading academic health systems \u2014 all united by a mission to advance knowledge, educate future leaders, and transform lives. Kim was appointed president by the USC Board of Trustees in February 2026, following seven months serving as interim president.As president, Kim launched the Open Dialogue Project, aimed at strengthening USC\u2019s academic culture of engagement with differing perspectives. He also formed an AI Strategy Committee, and launched a number of university-wide initiatives to engage faculty, staff, and students on the opportunities and challenges posed by AI in research, the classroom, and operations. Recognizing the importance of the Trojan Family, Kim has focused on re-engaging alumni across the globe, including by relaunching alumni networks. He has also worked to strengthen USC\u2019s partnerships with private industry, foundations, and local community organizations and leaders. Kim is recognized for his thought leadership on free expression and the future of higher education, and enjoys communicating with broader audiences and the Trojan Family through his presidential podcast, \u201cTrojan Talks.\u201dKim first joined USC in 2020 as senior vice president and general counsel. After helping the university navigate through the Covid pandemic, he resolved the university\u2019s legacy legal issues, reinforced the university\u2019s policies against discrimination, strengthened governance over the health system and health sciences schools, and enabled major investments in research and innovation. He has also been deeply involved in USC\u2019s athletics programs, having served as a key member of the athletics department\u2019s interim leadership team in 2023.Prior to USC, Kim held senior roles at Kaiser Permanente, was a partner at an international law firm, and served in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led the major frauds section in Los Angeles.Kim has taught constitutional interpretation at Harvard, trial advocacy at the National Advocacy Center, and served as an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law. He is a frequent speaker on academic freedom, health system compliance, and the future of college athletics.The son of Korean immigrants who both attended graduate school at USC, Kim was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, where he attended local public schools before graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard College. He earned a master\u2019s degree from the London School of Economics and his law degree from Harvard Law School.During the Covid-19 pandemic, Kim and his wife, Bonnie Wongtrakool, performed cello and piano \u201cporch concerts\u201d for their neighbors, reflecting their belief in the power of service, community, and the arts. Together, they have two children.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kim-ji-won-profile.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ji Won Kim',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kim-ji-won\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Ji Won Kim is a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright\u2019s Los Angeles office. She guides global clients through all facets of cybersecurity and privacy risk management, strategy, governance and incident response. She is a trusted advisor to clients seeking to enhance their cybersecurity and privacy posture and develop compliance programs. In time of crisis, she manages complex cybersecurity investigations, including those involving sophisticated threat actors focused on critical infrastructure entities. Leveraging her significant experience in cross-border investigations and litigation, she engages with regulators and resolves related disputes on behalf of clients across a wide spectrum of industries.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Kim-Seong.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Seong Kim',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/kim-seong\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Seong Kim is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles (Century City) office. He also spends considerable time in the firm\u2019s Seoul office, representing Korean companies in a variety of disputes.  Kim is known for his exceptional winning record at trials and arbitrations, having obtained judgments and settlements totaling hundreds of million dollars. Some of the largest companies around the world turn to Kim to protect their interests.  Chambers and Partners recognized Kim for his \u201cstrong track record\u201d and for his \u201ccreative legal solutions.\u201d Legal 500 US noted that Kim is \u201crenowned for his skill and effectiveness.\u201d IAM Patent 1000 recognized Kim for \u201chis sharpened trial skills, impressive match stats and ebullient client reviews,\u201d stating: \u201cHe is extremely efficient and resolves matters quickly, but always with an eye on quality. He provides a very high level of service.\u201d  Kim also taught Advanced Trial Techniques as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. He has lectured at trial technique seminars for various lawyer\/bar associations in the United States, Asia and Latin America.  Kim is a contributing author of the Treatise, Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California, published by the Intellectual Property Section of the California State Bar. He is also a member of the California State Bar\u2019s Continuing Education of the Bar, Real Property Advisory Committee.  Kim has been featured and quoted in various publications including the Daily Journal, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He was also featured as a \u201cMinority Power Broker\u201d by Law360.  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She worked for more than a decade as a senior judicial attorney for the California Court of Appeal. She previously chaired the California State Bar\u2019s Appellate Law Advisory Commission and for 20 years has been a certified appellate specialist through the California State Bar\u2019s Board of Legal Specialization. She has been active in her community, serving as a mayor and city council member, and as the president of the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities.Before teaching constitutional law, King was a lecturer in law for the judicial externship program and taught first-year legal research, writing and advocacy at USC Gould School of Law. She also taught appellate advocacy at Loyola Law School. She received her JD from Stanford Law School and her undergraduate degree from Stanford University. She is currently studying for her Doctor of Policy, Planning and Development at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Kirschner-USC_LAW_051-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'David Kirschner',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David Kirschner',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-kirschner\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'David Kirschner is the associate dean of admissions, financial aid, and innovation at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. Kirschner earned his BA in film production cum laude from the University of Southern California and his JD cum laude from California Western School of Law. Kirschner began his career in law school admissions as an alumni recruiter at California Western School of Law before becoming assistant and then associate director of admissions at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University.In his current position at USC, Kirschner is responsible for the setting and implementation of strategic goals and targets for each admission cycle. Throughout his career, Kirschner has been at the forefront of using technology and data to refine enrollment management practices and craft more effective recruitment and outreach strategies. Kirschner has extensive experience with the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) and other professional organizations related to legal education. Currently, Kirschner chairs LSAC\u2019s New Admissions Professionals Workshop and led a re-imagining of the program (2023-2025). Kirschner previously served consecutive terms on the LSAC Board of Trustees as the inaugural Chair of LSAC\u2019s Emerging Markets & Innovation Committee (2019-2023). He has also served on LSAC\u2019s Services and Programs Committee, Test Development & Research, and Finance & Legal Affairs Committee. Kirschner has also served on the Information Support Division Advisory Group and assisting in planning the first ever UNITE preconference in 2022.Outside of LSAC, Kirschner currently serves on the AI Advisory Council for Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL); the Advisory Board for the J. Serra High School Law Magnet; and the Alumni Association Board of Directors for California Western School of Law. Previously, Kirschner served as chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on PreLegal Education and Admission to Law School and has been a member of American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation site visit teams. He also co-teaches a summer seminar to incoming law students entitled \u201cLawyers and Leadership\u201d with Professor Robert Rasmussen.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brian-klein-2025-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Brian Klein',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/klein-brian\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Brian Klein is a partner at Cooley LLP, and he is a distinguished trial lawyer who is nationally recognized for his fierce, successful advocacy on behalf of clients in federal and state courts across the country. 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Additionally, he teaches a federal criminal practice seminar at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and has guest lectured on legal issues at Yale Law School (white-collar criminal defense) and the University of Michigan (cybersecurity), among others.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-556');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-26');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-30');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-32');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dan-klerman-2025-02-copy.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Daniel Klerman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and History, and Director, Center of Law & Social Science (CLASS)',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/daniel-klerman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Daniel Klerman teaches Civil Procedure, Property, Concepts in American Law, and English Legal History.In 2014, he received the Student Bar Association (SBA) Faculty Appreciation (\u201cOutstanding Professor\u201d) Award.Klerman\u2019s scholarship concentrates on Civil Procedure, English Legal History, and Law and Economics. His publications include \u201cForum Selling\u201d (Southern California Law Review, 2016) (with Greg Reilly), \u201cSettlement Around the World: Settlement Rates in the Largest Economies\u201d (Journal of Legal Analysis, 2022) (with Yun-chien Chang), \u201cInferences from Litigated Cases,\u201d (Journal of Legal Studies,\u00a02014) (with Yoon-Ho Alex Lee) and \u201cJurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law\u201d (University of Chicago Law Review, 2007).In 2004, he was awarded the Sutherland Prize from the American Society for Legal History for best article on English legal history. In 2001, he received the David Yale Prize from the Selden Society for distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales.Klerman served on the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association from 2009-2012 and was co-president of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies in 2008-09. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis (JLEA) and is on the editorial boards of Law & History Review and the Journal of Legal Analysis. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and served as USC Law\u2019s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2009-2011.Klerman received his BA from Yale University and his JD and PhD in History from the University of Chicago. He clerked for The Honorable Richard A. Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for The Honorable John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. In addition to USC Gould School of Law, he has taught at the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, the California Institute of Technology, Sichuan University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University Law School, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-85');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-56');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-26');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-78');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/usc_gsl_lisa_klerman_headshot_20230202_109-scaled.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Lisa Klerman headshot',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Lisa Klerman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Mediation Clinic',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lisa-klerman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Lisa Klerman is a Clinical Professor of Law, and directs the USC Gould School of Law Mediation Clinic. The Mediation Clinic courses that she designed and developed received national recognition in 2011 when the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council honored USC Gould with its prestigious ADR Education Award. Klerman was also the Founding Director of the law school\u2019s ADR Certificate Program, as well as the Center for Dispute Resolution.In addition to her work at USC, Klerman is a professional mediator with her own private practice specializing in employment law mediations.\u00a0Previously a partner in the employment law department at Morrison & Foerster, Klerman represented plaintiffs as well as defendants while she was a practicing attorney. Her achievements include several notable jury trials, as well as some high profile appellate cases.Klerman is a frequent speaker on alternative dispute resolution, negotiation, mediation, employment law, and class actions. She has been interviewed by major publications and appeared as a legal commentator on NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, the BBC, and other radio programs in both national and international broadcasts.Klerman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where she received her BA degree with distinction.\u00a0She received her JD degree from the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/christopher-knauf-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Christopher Knauf',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/knauf-christopher\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Christopher H. Knauf is the founder and senior attorney of Knauf Associates, a private disability rights and education law firm located in Santa Monica, Calif. In addition to serving as lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law teaching Disability Rights Law, he is a certified mediator and former director of litigation for the Disability Rights Legal Center in Los Angeles.Knauf has practiced more than 27 years, primarily focusing on disability rights and education-related legal issues, including special education litigation, in various state and federal trial and appellate courts. He was fortunate to win six cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and has successfully litigated hundreds of cases, including various hearing and trial verdicts. In addition to litigation and mediation, Knauf also serves as an independent Section 504 hearing officer and Los Angeles County Bar fee arbitrator.Prior to founding his law office in 2006, Knauf was an associate with the public agency law firm Lozano Smith for more than three years, focusing on special education and employment litigation on behalf of school and community college districts. Previously he served as a staff attorney with the Western Law Center for Disability Rights and Bet Tzedek Legal Services. Knauf has also served as an officer and board member of the Disability Community Resource Center (formerly Westside Center for Independent Living) for more than 10 years, and is a co-founder of the City of Santa Monica\u2019s Disabilities Commission.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['K'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dimitri-korovilas-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Dimitri Korovilas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/korovilas-dimitri\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'K',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Dimitri Korovilas is a founding partner of Wucetich & Korovilas LLP and has been a litigator and trial attorney for nearly 20 years. 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Korovilas\u2019s practice in the consumer area is broad, and includes class action cases involving consumer privacy, data security breaches, false advertising, automatic renewal billing scams, illegal robocall and spam text marketing campaigns, antitrust, unfair competition, products liability, and other consumer protection related matters. Korovilas\u2019s class action employment practice generally concerns large scale wage and hour violations, independent contractor\/employee misclassification, gender pay equity issues, WARN Act violations, and related employment law issues.Korovilas earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in economics, with honors, from the University of Chicago and received his JD from the University of California, Davis, where he was elected by the faculty to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Korovilas served as a senior editor on the law review and authored a published law review article on constitutional law issues. 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He also received his BA in Cello Performance from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California,\u00a0summa cum laude, with a minor in Business Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/rakel-larson.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Rakel P Larson',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/larson-rakel-p\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Rakel Larson is a lecturer in law who teaches Psychology and Law at the USC Gould School of Law. She received her MS in Child Development from the University of California, Davis and her PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. 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His background and skills includes complex business litigation including trial and appellate representation, real estate matters, corporate governance, board relations, labor and employment, and all areas of public policy and community relations. He has a lengthy history of representing clients in real estate litigation matters, including environmental and CEQA litigation on behalf of regional real estate developers.Lash manages O\u2019Melveny\u2019s national and international pro bono program. He helped initiate a formal launch of the firm\u2019s long-time pro bono program by drafting policies and procedures and creating a firm-wide infrastructure from which has grown a world-renowned pro bono program. 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With more than 35 years of experience, Lebovitz provides strategic international tax counsel to multinational clients around the world. Lebovitz advises on the tax aspects of international joint ventures, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, post-transaction integration, international corporate finance, capital market transactions and general international tax planning matters. He regularly counsels clients across multiple industries including life sciences, media and entertainment, telecom, technology, oil and gas, and industrial and consumer products.Lebovitz has successfully led teams advising multinational restructurings in advance of a sale or spin-off of a division, as well as designing and implementing integration plans following a global merger or acquisition. He has led integration teams in over 100 countries.Lebovitz also works with companies on intellectual property and supply chain planning in connection with transactions, U.S. and global tax reform and overall business operations. He has led global teams in connection with planning and documenting transfer pricing strategies.A frequent speaker on international tax matters, Lebovitz has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia for organizations including the Tax Executives Institute, IFA, IBFD, IBA, Bloomberg\/BNA, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the American, California and Los Angeles County Bar Associations and the California Society of CPAs. He has written frequently on international tax topics, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and Europe. Lebovitz is ranked by Chambers USA in the Tax \u2013 Southern California category.In addition, Lebovitz focuses on international philanthropy matters advising international nonprofits and foundations on cross-border fundraising and governance issues. He participates extensively in international pro bono matters. His notable projects include advising a West African country on income tax treaty negotiations as well as leading a global team reporting on the legislative and judicial processes to combat the illegal trade in wildlife. He also designed and led the instruction of a course on international taxation for the law school at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.He earned a bachelor\u2019s in science cum laude in accounting from California State University Long Beach and a JD cum laude from Loyola Law School Los Angeles.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Christopher Lee',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lee-christopher\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Lee_Mark.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mark Lee',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lee-mark\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mark S. Lee is a partner at Rimon PC, and the author of Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law (Thomson Reuters, 2025). \u00a0He also has co-authored\u00a0 Expert Witnesses: Intellectual Property Cases\u00a0(Thomson\/West 2013), authored \u201cAgents of Chaos: Judicial Confusion in Defining the Right of Publicity-Free Speech Interface,\u201d\u00a0Loyola Entertainment Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2003, which articulated a standard for reconciling the right of publicity and First Amendment that was adopted by the Missouri Supreme Court in Doe v. TCI Cablevision, 110 S.W. 3d 363 (Mo. 2003), and is under contract to author the legal casebook Entertainment, Television and Digital Media Law,, which will be available to law schools in the Fall of 2026.He has more than 30 years\u2019 experience in the entertainment industry, and has counseled or litigated disputes over the intellectual property rights of world-famous musicians, authors, actors, photographers and fictional characters. \u00a0He has, for example, litigated the copyrights, trademarks and\/or rights of publicity of Nirvana; Earth, Wind & Fire; Steve Perry; Toni Basil; John Steinbeck; Tiger Woods; Jim Brown; Bryan Wilson; Elvis Presley; and Frank Sinatra. See Earth, Wind & Fire IP, LLC v. Substantial Music Group LLC, \u00a0720 F. Supp. 3d 1261 (S. D. Fla. 2024); Nirvana L.L.C. v. Marc Jacobs International L.L.C., 2023 WL 11821416 (C.D. Cal, December 21, 2023); Stillwater LTD v. Basilotta, 2022 WL 1486825 (9th Cir. May 11, 2022); Carter v. Atticus Corporation,\u00a02022 WL 1038081 (S.D. Ala. February 9, 2022); Stephen\u00a0Perry v. Brown,\u00a0791 Fed. Appx 643 (9th Cir. November 6, 2019);\u00a0Jim\u00a0Brown v. Electronic Arts, Inc., 724 F.3d 1235 (9th Cir. 2013); Love v. Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 611 F.3d 601 (9th Cir. 2010); Sheffield Enterprises, Inc. v. the Main Event, Inc., Case No CV02-03927 (C.D. Cal. January 6, 2004); ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publishing, Inc., 332 F.3d 915 (6th Cir. 2003); and Elvis Presley Enterprises v. Capece, 141 F.3d 188 (5th Cir. 1998).He has taught courses on Entertainment Law, Television and Digital Media Law, and Copyright, Trademark and Related Rights at the USC Gould School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Lefcoe George_Fall2016_web.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'George Lefcoe',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Ervin and Florine Yoder Chair Emeritus in Real Estate Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/george-lefcoe\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'George Lefcoe is a Professor of Law specializing in real estate, and has taught at the USC Gould School of Law since 1962. He holds the Ervin and Florine Yoder Chair in Real Estate Law.His expertise is in real estate finance, development and land use planning, having worked with federal, state and local governments, and with firms and foundations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. His book, Real Estate Transactions, Finance, and Development (Lexis, 2009), is one of the most widely-used texts in the field, and is now in its Sixth Edition.Lefcoe has served on many state and local government commissions, including the Regional Planning Commission of Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission. Since 1990, he has directed the USC Traveling Land Use Seminar, which has visited and met with civic leaders and real estate development professionals in many of the major cities of the world, ranging from Istanbul to Havana and, most recently, Porto, LIsbon and Cascais in Portugal.He also is faculty director and regular panelist for the USC Real Estate Law and Business Forum, an annual conference which draws leading professionals in the field both as panelists and attendees. He was elected to membership in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), has spoken to real estate and local government sections of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), delivered the Richard Babcock Memorial Lecture at the annual ALI\/ABA Land Use seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 27, 2010, and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Lefcoe also is a Member, Board of Directors, Center for Real Estate Studies, New York Law School.Lefcoe\u2019s articles are published in a number of law journals. His most recent articles are \u201cRedevelopment in California: Its Abrupt Termination and a Texas-Inspired Proposal for a Fresh Start,\u201d 44 Urban Lawyer 767 (2012) and\u00a0\u201cCompeting for the Next Hundred Million Americans: The Uses and Abuses of Tax Increment Financing,\u201d 43 Urban Lawyer 427 (2011).',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Cristina Legaspi 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Cristina Legaspi',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/legaspi-cristina\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Cristina Legaspi is a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She is currently assigned to the Juvenile Division.Legaspi was a principal deputy county counsel for the Office of the County Counsel, County of Los Angeles, for 25 years, where she represented various county departments and the Board of Supervisors. Legaspi\u2019s specialty is in child welfare, trying the most complex dependency matters involving child abuse and neglect. Legaspi has expertise in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act.Legaspi served as legal advisor to the Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury, and the Los Angeles County Assessment Appeals Board regarding property tax disputes.Legaspi is active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors of the Philippine American Bar Association, and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation. Legaspi serves on the Los Angeles County Bar Association\u2019s Access to Justice committee and the President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Women in the Legal Profession. She is a member of the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyer\u2019s Association. Legaspi also serves as a mentor to undergraduate and law students, serving on the UCLA Pilipino Pipeline Project. As a first-generation immigrant, Legaspi is the first in her family to become an attorney, then judge.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Lemke.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mark A. Lemke',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lemke-mark-a\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mark A. Lemke is a full-time commercial mediator, specializing in employment disputes. He has resolved the full range of employment disputes \u2014 including discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, harassment (different and same-sex), failure to accommodate (disability and religion), wage and hour, misclassification and many others. He also specializes in personal injury lawsuits, including catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. Lemke has mediated more than 1,500 cases.Lemke is a frequent lecturer and author on employment, insurance and mediation. He is a proud graduate of USC Gould School of Law (\u201900). He since earned his LLM in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute.Lemke serves on the boards of the Southern California Mediation Association and LGBT Bar Association of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Mexican American Bar Association and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.He is a lecturer in law for Employment Mediation, assisting with the Employment Mediation Clinic and Advanced Mediation Clinic.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/thomas-lenz.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Thomas Lenz',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lenz-thomas\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Thomas Lenz handles all aspects of labor and employment law issues\u00a0and heads the traditional labor and National Labor Relations\u00a0Board practices at Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo. He works with employers in all major industries across\u00a0California and the West. 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He teaches Labor Arbitration.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/David_Lessoff_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David Lessoff',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lessoff-david\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'David Lessoff is currently senior vice president of business and legal affairs at Ingrooves Music Group, a division of Universal Music Group, where he serves as the head lawyer responsible for all legal issues in connection with Ingrooves\u2019s businesses including the global music distribution of over 3,000 labels and artists. In his role at Ingrooves, he is also responsible for all commercial agreements entered into on behalf of Ingrooves, as well as all legal matters pertaining to intellectual property and regulatory compliance, including recommending legal strategies and initiatives to senior management to minimize legal risks with respect to existing business operations and proposed business actions.Prior to joining the Ingrooves\/Universal Music Group, he served as senior in-house counsel at Capitol Records, New West Records and Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, and he spent four years as an attorney at the law firm of Manatt Phelps & Phillips, where he represented recording artists, record companies, publishing companies, film companies, producers, composers\/songwriters as well as technology companies.In addition to his legal work and teaching Music Law in Practice at USC\u2019s Gould School of Law, he has also been, for the past 16 years, an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he teaches a Music Law survey course. He is a member of several industry trade associations and is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer at SXSW and at many other universities, law schools, seminars and conferences.He received his BA and MA in English with honors from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and he received his law degree with honors from Gonzaga University. 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Levine, who is a psychoanalyst as well as a lawyer, is an expert on elder law, mental health law and criminal law. He holds joint appointments in the USC Davis School of Gerontology and the Keck School of Medicine of USC.\u00a0 He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Aging and the Law, Mediation and Dispute Resolution, and Psychoanalysis and Law.Levine\u2019s publications include Law and Psychology (ed., New York University Press, 1995), Legal Education (ed., New York University Press, 1993), and Age Discrimination and the Mandatory Retirement Controversy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).Levine received his BA summa cum laude with distinction in Sociology from Brandeis University, his JD with Honors from Yale Law School, and the honorary degree LLD from the University of San Fernando Valley. He clerked for The Honorable J. Skelly Wright, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Levine was President of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, founding President and Executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and general counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Paul Levine-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Paul S. Levine',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/levine-paul-s\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Paul S. Levine is a lawyer and a literary agent. He began his entertainment law career straight out of law school, as an associate with the Law Offices of Stephen F. Rohde, where he specialized in entertainment litigation and entertainment transactions for almost seven years. While there, he represented Price\/Stern\/Sloan Publishers (creators of The Honeymooners and Mad Libs); Jack Kirby (creator of comics Captain America, Spiderman and Black Panther); and Elysium Institute, a Los Angeles County nudist colony.He went on to work for the Business and Legal Affairs Department of Warner Bros. Television, where he spent nearly five years. He then moved to Hearst Entertainment, where he spent two years as resident counsel. In 1992, he established his own law practice which specializes in the representation of authors, writers, producers, actors, directors, composers, musicians, artists, photographers, galleries, publishers, developers, production companies and theater companies in the fields of motion pictures, television, interactive multimedia, live stage, recorded music, concerts, the visual arts, publishing and advertising. He still practices as both a transactional lawyer and as a litigator.In 1998, Levine opened the Paul S. Levine Literary Agency, specializing in the representation of book authors and the sale of motion picture and TV rights in and to books. Since starting the agency, Levine has sold more than 150 fiction and non-fiction books to over 50 publishers and had numerous books developed as movies-for-television and feature films.In addition, Levine very much enjoys public speaking, including to writer\u2019s groups and at writer\u2019s conferences, as well as at entertainment-related classes and seminars.Levine was born in New York City and was raised and educated in Montreal. He received a Bachelor of Commerce, magna cum laude, from Concordia University in Montreal, then went on to earn his MBA from York University in Toronto, and received his JD from the University of Southern California in 1981.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Liang-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jason Liang',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/liang-jason\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Jason L. Liang represents corporate and individual clients in various complex civil and criminal matters. His experience includes litigating issues involving trade secret and intellectual property theft, defamation, breach of contract, fraud, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the False Claims Act, conspiracy, anti-trust and unfair competition laws, and cross-border disputes involving Chinese law.  Prior to founding Liang Ly LLP, Liang was an associate at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day and at Murphy Rosen LLP, a boutique litigation firm located in Santa Monica. He also worked closely with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) to represent, on a pro bono basis, victims of domestic violence who seek representation to obtain permanent restraining orders against their abusers. In 2012, LACLJ awarded him with the Excellence in Community Service Award for his pro bono work. In addition, Liang had served on the board of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association and is a former president of the organization.  Liang earned his JD, cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law, in 2007. He received his BA in Economics from University of California, Irvine (UCI). Jason is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in the State of California, and is also a member of the bar of the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. Liang has been consistently recognized by his peers as a Southern California Super Lawyers \u201cRising Star.\u201d\u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Litwak2.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mark Litwak',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/litwak-mark\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Mark Litwak is an entertainment attorney whose practice includes copyright, trademark, contract, multimedia law, intellectual property, and book publishing. In this role, Litwak has assisted with issues such as filmmaker financing, marketing and distribution of over 200 motion pictures including award-winning films in Cannes, Toronto, Telluride and other festivals.  Litwak is the author of six books:\u00a0Reel Power,\u00a0The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood,\u00a0Courtroom Crusaders,\u00a0Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry\u00a0(winner of the 1996 Kraszna-Krausz award for best book in the world on the film business),\u00a0Contracts for the Film & Television Industry,\u00a0Litwak\u2019s Multimedia Producer\u2019s Handbook, and\u00a0Risky Business: Financing and Distributing Independent Film. He has also contributed articles for\u00a0The Los Angeles Times,\u00a0The Business of Film,\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter,\u00a0Moviemaker, and\u00a0Los Angeles Lawyer.  Litwak is an IFTA arbitrator and often serves as an expert witness in motion industry disputes. As a law professor he has taught courses in entertainment law, copyright and torts at Loyola Law School, the University of Puget Sound School of Law and UCLA extension. He has also presented seminars at USC, the American Film Institute, Columbia University, NYU, the University of British Columbia, and the Royal College of Art in London. He holds a JD from University of San Diego School of Law, as well as a BA and MA from Queens College of the City University of New York.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Sharon Lloyd',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sharon-lloyd\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Sharon A. 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She also co-directs the\u00a0USC\u00a0Center for Law and Philosophy.A co-editor of\u00a0Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\u00a0and editorial associate of\u00a0Law and Philosophy, Lloyd is author of\u00a0Ideals and Interests in Hobbes\u2019s Leviathan\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 1992) and the forthcoming\u00a0Cases in the Law of Nature: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.Lloyd attended UCLA and earned her PhD in Philosophy from\u00a0Harvard\u00a0University.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jason Lo',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lo-jason\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Jason Lo practices intellectual property law, with a focus on patent and trade secrets litigation, as a partner resident in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.\u00a0  \u00a0  Lo was listed in the Los Angeles Business Journal\u2019s \"Who\u2019s Who in Intellectual Property Law.\" He has represented leading companies the video game, semiconductor, military defense, and pharmaceutical industries. 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During the academic year 2011-12, she served as interim co-director of Legal Writing and Advocacy. In 2012 she was appointed associate professor of legal writing and advocacy and in 2015 she was appointed associate professor of lawyering skills.Lonergan teaches Legal Writing and National Security Law, and is a faculty advisor to the Hale Moot Court Honors Program and the\u00a0National Moot Court Team.Lonergan is an experienced trial attorney, with expertise in public corruption, corporate fraud, government fraud, health care fraud, real estate fraud and offenses involving national security. As a federal prosecutor, she tried numerous complex cases involving corrupt federal agents, classified information and espionageA graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with highest honors, Lonergan received her JD from the UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1987. She worked briefly as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles and then as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Crimes Section, before going to work at the Los Angeles USAO in 1991. She has worked as a\u00a0pro tem\u00a0judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court since 2001.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Karl Lott 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Karl Lott',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lott-karl\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Karl J. Lott is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP, working as a real estate attorney in the firm\u2019s Century City and Los Angeles offices. Lott has more than 30 years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney, and his practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions.Lott regularly advises clients in acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings, shopping centers, industrial properties and other commercial real estate. In addition, he handles all types of leasing matters, including office leases, retail leases and industrial leases, representing owners of office buildings and shopping centers in various locations in California in all matters relating to the leasing of their properties. He also represents major national and international tenants in their leasing negotiations.Lott has extensive experience in matters of real estate finance, representing lenders, borrowers and joint ventures, as well as representing lending entities established to participate in the EB-5 immigration program. He regularly assists clients in forming joint ventures and in the management of limited liability companies. He also is co-editor of Holland & Knight\u2019s Retail and Commercial Development and Leasing blog.In addition to his real estate work, Lott serves as the chair of the firm\u2019s diversity committee in the Century City and Los Angeles offices, and sits on the firm\u2019s diversity council.Lott is also active in the nonprofit housing community, and serves as the chair of the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, a nonprofit organization that builds and operates affordable housing throughout Southern California and provides ongoing services to its residents to help them transition back into secure housing and the community.Lott is on the Los Angeles advisory board of Best Buddies International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'David Lourie',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lourie-david\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['L'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/robert-lu.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Robert Lu',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/lu-robert\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'L',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Robert Lu serves as General Counsel for America Chung Nam, a global leader in renewables and recycling logistics. After graduating from the USC Gould School of Law in 1998, he clerked for two federal judges, Judge Harry L. Hupp in the Central District of California, and then Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez on the Ninth Circuit. He also spent four years with the United States Attorney\u2019s Office in the District of Arizona (Phoenix) working in both the Civil and Criminal Divisions. 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Ludmir\u2019s practice focuses on representing talent and media companies in a wide array of transactions in the digital, TV, music, advertising and motion picture industries. He advises clients in deals involving all aspects of content and product development, production and distribution; branding, marketing and promotions; data and privacy as well as other related matters across various media and platforms.  Ludmir\u2019s experience includes seven years in-house at Participant Media, where he oversaw business and legal affairs for the company\u2019s digital, marketing and social impact divisions, and for its short-form digital content arm, SoulPancake. He started his legal career at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy, LLP in the Project Finance\/Renewable Energy group. Prior to practicing law, Ludmir once worked as a field reporter for \u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d Travel Guides in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, and traveled through South America in an old VW bus. 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Lyon\u2019s goal is to identify the most productive means of questioning children about abuse and violence. He is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He teaches Evidence and the Child Interviewing Practicum. Lyon directs the\u00a0USC Child Interviewing Lab, which conducts research and forensic interviews with children who have been victims of maltreatment or who have witnessed violence.Lyon is past-president of the American Psychological Association\u2019s Section on Child Maltreatment (Division 37) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. 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In these roles, she teaches legal research courses and assists faculty and students with their research endeavors.At USC Law, Madole serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Native American Law Students Association (NALLSA), studies tribal law issues, and coordinates lectures on Indigenous Law and Policy with the Center for Law, History, and Culture (CHLC).Madole earned both her J.D. and MLIS degrees from UCLA and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. While at UCLA School of Law, she served as an editor of the Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance.She is active in several national organizations, including AALL\u2019s Native Peoples Law Caucus (NPLC), where she currently serves as chair, and AALL\u2019s Spectrum Article of the Year Jury. She is also a member of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL), where she has served on the executive board, chaired the Speakers Committee for the annual SCALL Institute, and currently chairs the Grants Committee.Dedicated to the study of Indigenous law and policy issues, Madole is the author of\u00a0California Tribal Law\u00a0in\u00a0Henke\u2019s California Law Guide. Her joint proposal advocating for the inclusion of tribal codes in the Bluebook was adopted as Bluebook Rule 22, \u201cThe Law of Tribal Nations,\u201d in the 22nd edition. This rule provides long-overdue guidance on citing tribal constitutions, cases, and codes, and U.S. treaties with Tribal Nations.Madole\u2019s article \u201cLaw Librarians for Indigenous-Inclusive Citation\u201d received the 2024 AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award.In 2024, she co-authored \u201cIntegrating Tribal Law into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies,\u201d published in Perspectives. The piece received both the 2025 ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award and the 2025 Paul Gatz RIPS-SIS Publication Award from AALL.In 2025, Madole received the Early Career Teaching and Public Service Award from the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section.She is a citizen of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe and a member of the State Bar of California.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['M'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/michal-malkiewicz-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Mike Malkiewicz headshot',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Michal  Malkiewicz',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/malkiewicz-michal\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'M',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Michal A. 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Another book, A New Understanding of Property, will be published later this year.In an effort to reach a wider audience to explain basic concepts of tax and public finance, McCaffery created the People\u2019s Tax Page and a series of animated cartoons featuring Sabrina the Unicorn.McCaffery is a frequent commentator on a variety of tax issues in the news. To read his pieces that have been posted on CNN and The Huffington Post, please click on the links below:CNNHuffington PostRecent commentary:As America files its taxes, Trump\u2019s only worry is disclosureOn taxes, Ocasio-Cortez has the right impulse but the wrong remedyYes, Democrats can demand Trump\u2019s tax returns, but they should do moreIn Trump and Kushner\u2019s world, other people pay taxes\u00a0His other writings include \u201cCognitive Theory and Tax,\u201d \u201cFraming the Jury: Cognitive Perspectives on Pain and Suffering Awards\u201d (with Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Spitzer), and \u201cSlouching Towards Equality: Gender Discrimination, Market Efficiency, and Social Change.\u201d\u00a0 Dean McCaffery has served as an official consultant to the Russian Federation to help design a comprehensive tax code.\u00a0 Prior to joining the USC faculty, Professor McCaffery practiced law with a San Francisco law firm.A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Professor McCaffery received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a master\u2019s degree in economics from USC.\u00a0 He served as a clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. 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Douglas Melamed',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Scholar-in-Residence',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/a-douglas-melamed\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'M',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Doug Melamed is a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Law School and Scholar in Residence at the USC Gould School of Law. He was Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford from 2014 until 2022 and Scholar in Residence there from 2022 to 2023.From 2009 until 2014, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intel Corporation and was responsible for overseeing Intel\u2019s legal, government affairs, and corporate affairs departments.Prior to joining Intel, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale, a global law firm in which he served as a chair of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. 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His experience as an international arbitration specialist includes handling joint venture, construction and engineering, conventional and renewable energy, manufacturing and distribution, as well as information technology disputes.O\u2019Malley frequently represents clients in arbitrations seated outside of California and has appeared before arbitral tribunals in Geneva, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Frankfurt, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Toronto. He has handled cases under most of the prominent arbitral rules, including those of the ICC, UNCITRAL, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Netherlands Arbitration Institute, Swiss Rules, American Arbitration Association (ICDR) and World Intellectual Property Organization. O\u2019Malley also acts for clients in matters seated in the United States and has argued before state and federal courts, including the California Courts of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in matters pertaining to international arbitration. In 2017, he successfully argued the matter of Portland General Electric v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company et al., 862 F.3d 981 (9th Cir. 2017) on behalf of the amicus curiae, which was the first opinion of the Ninth Circuit to consider whether courts must defer to arbitrators on issues of arbitrability when the ICC Rules of Arbitration apply.Reflecting his experience in the field, O\u2019Malley has been appointed as an international arbitrator (neutral) on multiple occasions by the Paris-based ICC International Court of Arbitration, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the AAA (ICDR) and is admitted to the roster of international arbitrators with the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board.O\u2019Malley also serves as an adjunct faculty and as a member of the Advisory Committee for ADR programs at the USC Gould School of Law. 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For the past eight years, she has overseen complex copyright litigations, including seminal copyright cases. She is also responsible for managing international content protection cases, often in coordination with the industry trade organization, the Motion Picture Association of America. In addition, she is responsible for copyright policy analysis and strategizing with business teams to address changes in copyright law.Prior to Disney, Moye worked as a litigation associate for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and other law firms. She clerked for Judge Rosemary S. Pooler in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She received her JD from New York University School of Law, graduating with high honors, including Order of the Coif and the recipient of the annual Walter J. Derenberg Prize for Copyright Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['P'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/roger-pao.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Roger Pao',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/pao-roger\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'P',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Roger Pao is an attorney and educator with extensive experience in online education and an interest in dynamic, innovative pedagogies. He is currently assistant provost and dean of undergraduate studies at the New England College of Business and Finance. 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The Project represents clients serving life sentences in California prisons, often for crimes they committed in their youth. Under his guidance, second and third-year law students serve as lead counsel at parole hearings, challenge unjust convictions and sentences in court, and advocate for clemency in appropriate cases. In addition, the Project works to pass significant legislative reforms to improve the parole process and end mass incarceration.Parente teaches a post-conviction clinical seminar and has taught Criminal Procedure.Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty, Parente served as a deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles for 10 years, primarily representing indigent individuals on California\u2019s death row in post-conviction proceedings at all levels of state and federal court.Parente holds a BS from Cornell University, an LLM in Law and Economics from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Economics from George Mason University. He earned his JD from the USC Gould School of Law where he was chair of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program and a student supervisor in the Post-Conviction Justice Project.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['P'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/JinPark-web.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jin Park',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/park-jin\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'P',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jin Park is an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law, teaching LLM Contracts.\u00a0 She has also taught Reviewing and Negotiating Business Contracts and Legal Writing and Research. In her private practice, she served as outside counsel to USC, where her responsibilities included drafting and reviewing general business and intellectual property contracts and advising the counsel\u2019s office on various transactional matters and dispute resolution. 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Her research interests center on poverty, civil rights, race and justice, and access to justice issues, and she is co-author of the leading Poverty Law textbook. She is a regular speaker on poverty, access to justice, and public interest law.Pastore has received frequent state and national recognition as an outstanding advocate and teacher. In 2024, she was honored by the Wage Justice Center with the Founder\u2019s Award. In 2020, she won Gould\u2019s Rutter Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2019, she was honored with the Earl Johnson Equal Justice Award by the Western Center on Law and Poverty for her achievements and leadership in access to justice throughout her career. In 2013, she was one of ten educators nationwide to receive the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, which recognizes educators \u201cwho have inspired their former students to make a significant contribution to society.\u201d In prior years, she was selected as a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School as part of its program recognizing outstanding public interest lawyers (2005), named one of the nation\u2019s 45 most outstanding public interest attorneys under age 45 (American Lawyer magazine, 1997), one of California\u2019s top lawyers under 40 years old (California Law Business, 1999), and one of Southern California\u2019s \u201cSuper Lawyers\u201d (2006-09). She was commended by an official State Assembly resolution in 2004 for her work on behalf of the poor in California.Pastore serves on the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the Board of Directors of the Wage Justice Center and the Steering Committee of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. She is a member of USC\u2019s Center for the Changing Family and the Los Angeles County Bar\u2019s Amicus Briefs and Professional Responsibility & Ethics committees. She is a past member of the American Bar Association\u2019s Homelessness and Poverty Commission, and a former co-chair of the California Access to Justice Commission\u2019s Right to Counsel Task Force.From 1989 to 2004, Pastore was a staff attorney at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, where she litigated many state and federal cases involving poverty law and disability rights. She received one of the nation\u2019s first Skadden Fellowships to begin her work there in 1989. She was also affiliated with the ACLU of Southern California as Senior Counsel from 2004 til 2007, and Of Counsel from 2007 until 2011.Pastore holds a BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from Colgate University and a JD from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. 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There was hardly a day that Paz was not involved in a jury trial, bench trial or motion hearing to protect his client\u2019s rights. While representing juveniles, he won numerous bench verdicts on cases where his clients were charged with felonies and strikes, both of which would have ended their futures before they began. He was later assigned to handle felony preliminary hearings where he scrutinized every element from the prosecution\u2019s witnesses in uphill battles to prove a lack of probable cause.  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The USC Center for Transnational Law and Business promotes world-class policy analysis and debate to help international businesses navigate the complex matrix of varied trade and compliance policies around the world.Peck served as deputy director in charge of international affairs and business development for the Governor\u2019s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) from 2013 to 2016. GO-Biz is the lead state agency for California\u2019s economic strategy on issues relating to international trade and investment. As an international trade and intellectual property attorney, Peck advised multinational clients on international trade, regulatory and compliance matters, international government and policy affairs, global IP asset management and trade-related IP matters.Peck was senior director for intellectual property at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 2003-2005, and director of Japanese Affairs at USTR from 2001-2003. He was the lead negotiator for the intellectual property chapters in several Free Trade Agreements, including the U.S.-Colombia, U.S.-Peru and U.S.-Panama FTAs. He also oversaw the implementation of intellectual property provisions in the U.S.-Chile FTA and the CAFTA-DR Agreement. As senior director, Peck led an interagency team responsible for developing and implementing policies to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights in Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and Latin America; and was also responsible for overseeing U.S. trading partners\u2019 compliance with bilateral and international obligations to protect and enforce IP rights. As director for Japanese Affairs, Peck co-chaired the U.S.-Japan Information Technologies Working Group, and worked on regulatory reform initiatives in Japan\u2019s legal regime for IP rights, as well as in the IT, e-commerce and telecommunications sectors. He also led bilateral talks with several Asian countries under the WTO negotiations to liberalize international markets for services; and led the U.S. delegation at the WTO TRIPS Council meetings on IP matters.Prior to his work for the U.S. Trade Representative, Peck was an attorney-advisor with the Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration at the Department of Commerce from 1998-2001, where he participated in a number of antidumping and countervailing duty cases. He also participated in litigation before the Court of International Trade and international dispute settlement panels, including an appearance before a WTO Panel in Geneva.Before earning his law degree, Peck lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan, for more than nine years and held management positions with both U.S. and Japanese companies. 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Penton is an expert on bank trust, custody and securities activities; a highly regarded public finance professional; and a recognized letter of credit expert.Penton currently chairs the American Bar Association\u2019s Law School Teaching Subcommittee and is the program director of the Committee on Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees. She is an official observer of the Joint Study Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies sponsored by the American Law Institute and the Uniform Law Commission. She represents the Trust and Investment Services Subcommittee and the Trust Indenture Committee on the ABA Business Law Section\u2019s Securities Holding Infrastructure Taskforce. Penton was the secretary of the Article 5 Task Force jointly sponsored by the ABA and the International Financial Services Association that provided the basis for revision of the Uniform Customs and Practice and UCC Article 5. As a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the California State Bar\u2019s Business Law Section, she was a primary drafter of the California legislative analysis for Article 5 adoption; and was a member of the drafting committee for the International Standby Practices (ISP 98). Penton is a past chair of the American Bar Association\u2019s Trust and Investment Services Subcommittee, Letters of Credit Subcommittee, and Working Group on International Letters of Credit and Bank Guarantees.She is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, a member of the editorial advisory board of Documentary Credit World and served on the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private International Law. She is also a member of the advisory council of the\u00a0Center for Transnational Law and Business\u00a0at USC Gould. She is a frequent lecturer and has written numerous articles on letters of credit and fiduciary topics.Penton received her bachelor\u2019s degree cum laude from UCLA and her MBA and JD degrees from USC, where she was a member of the Southern California Law Review and Order of the Coif. 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Raichart routinely addresses such issues as workplace hostility and harassment, supervisor-supervisee concerns, academic disputes and authorship conflicts, and intra- and inter-group relationships. As a member of UCSD\u2019s Restorative Justice and Campus Safety and Security Advisory Committees, Raichart helps identify trends and patterns to bring early resolution to issues of heightened sensitivity. Additionally, he regularly conducts conflict literacy training to students, staff, and academic appointees.Raichart actively works with his colleagues to help grow the organizational ombuds field, including serving as the International Ombudsman Association (IOA) Sponsorship Committee Chair.Raichart obtained his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, as well as his Master of Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine\u2019s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in 2008. He is a member of the International Ombudsman Association and the California Bar Association.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/drr0001.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Robert K. Rasmussen',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/robert-k-rasmussen\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Robert K. Rasmussen joined USC Gould School of Law in August 2007.\u00a0 Rasmussen\u2019s scholarship focuses on corporate restructurings, both inside and outside of bankruptcy. He teaches Contracts, Business Bankruptcy and The Syndicated Loan as well as an undergraduate class on the Legal Profession. Rasmussen was named the J.\u00a0Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science in 2015.Rasmussen, who served as dean from 2007 to 2015, taught at Vanderbilt Law School for almost two decades. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan law schools.A widely cited scholar, Rasmussen is the author or co-author of dozens of articles published in some of the country\u2019s leading law journals, including the\u00a0Supreme Court Review, the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the\u00a0Stanford Law Review, the\u00a0Michigan Law Review\u00a0and the\u00a0Yale Law Journal. He has played a role in shaping the jurisprudence in his field as the principal author of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of nine law professors in the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court case\u00a0Bank of America v. 203 North LaSalle Street Partnership; was the principal author of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of three law professors in\u00a0Integrated Telecom Express, Inc., a 2004 case decided by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; and was the principal author of an\u00a0amicus curiae\u00a0brief on behalf of seven law professors in\u00a0Owens Corning, a 2005 case also decided by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the AccessLex Institute.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Lori  Rassas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/rassas-lori\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/MaryRay 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mary Ray',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/ray-mary\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mary Ray is a deputy public defender at the office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender. She is currently works in a felony trial assignment at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. She handles many different types of cases including homicides, robberies, assaults, and domestic violence as well as sex cases. Prior to her current assignment she worked in the public defender\u2019s training program. She joined the Public Defender\u2019s office in 2017.Prior to joining the public defender\u2019s office she interned at the Los Angeles Public Law Library. Ray earned her juris doctor from Southwestern Law School in 2016 where she was president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Ray earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and Religious Studies from San Diego State University. She currently teaches legal research at the USC Gould School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Ray_Stephen.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Stephan Ray',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/ray-stephan\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Stephan M. Ray is of counsel to the law firm of Owens & Gach Ray in Los Angeles. He was admitted to the Bar in California in 1979.  Ray attended UC Berkeley and UCLA where he received his BA in 1976. Ray graduated summa cum laude and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ray then attended Stanford Law School, where he received his JD in 1979. While at Stanford Law School, Ray was a member and associate editor of the Stanford Law Review (1977-1979) and served as an extern to the Honorable Stanley Mosk, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1978).  Ray is a Lecturer at both USC Gould School of Law (1989 \u2013 present) and at Stanford Law School (2002-2003 and 2006 \u2013 present). At USC Gould School of Law, Ray currently teaches Negotiation Skills (2016 \u2013 present), and he previously taught Corporate Reorganization (1989-2015). Ray currently teaches Corporate Reorganization at Stanford Law School.  Ray has served in several local and state Bar positions, including on the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California. 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Reese is currently an assistant United States attorney at the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Central District of California. As a member of the Criminal Appeals Section, Reese drafts and reviews briefs filed with, and argues before, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Her practice covers a broad range of substantive and procedural issues, with a particular focus on the Fourth and Sixth amendments. Reese has also tried several cases to verdict.Before becoming a prosecutor, Reese was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. While there, Reese worked on a number of criminal and civil investigations initiated by state and federal government agencies. Before joining Gibson, Reese clerked for the Hon. Beverly B. Martin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.Reese received her BA degree in mathematics and economics from Grinnell College, where she graduated with honors. She received her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review. She also served as a student attorney in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and worked on the team that successfully petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear Riley v. California, a landmark Fourth Amendment case regarding the constitutionality of warrantless searches and seizures of a cell phone\u2019s digital contents.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-30');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-35');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/2021-JeanReisz1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Jean Lantz Reisz',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jean-lantz-reisz\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Jean Reisz teaches and co-directs the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic, and teaches the Immigration Detention and Appellate Clinic and the Legal Profession courses. Under her supervision, second- and third-year law students represent individuals in removal proceedings seeking humanitarian forms of relief such as asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit. Clinic students also represent unlawfully detained immigrants in habeas corpus petitions before the U.S. District Court and noncitizens seeking other immigration relief including Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) immigrant visa petitions, crime victim visas (U visa status petitions), DACA, permanent residence, and citizenship. In addition, Reisz teaches the undergraduate course, LAW 212 \u2013 Immigration for a New America.As co-director of the Immigration Clinic, Reisz oversees the Immigrant Legal Assistance Center, which provides free legal assistance to USC students, faculty, staff and their families, in connection with immigration-related issues. The clinic also partners with AltaMed and Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles in providing immigration assistance and representation to immigrant children and their families at the medical-legal clinic,\u00a0La Linterna. Reisz also consults on television and motion picture productions as an immigration expert through the Norman Lear Center, Hollywood Health and Society.Reisz was a trial attorney for six years at the Los Angeles County Public Defender and Alternate Public Defender handling misdemeanor and felony cases in downtown Los Angeles and Compton. Prior to joining USC Gould, Reisz was a senior associate at Archer Norris, PLC. Reisz joined USC Gould in 2014 as the Audrey Irmas Clinical Teaching Fellow, a position she held for three years. Reisz graduated from USC Gould School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-31');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Renteln-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Alison Renteln',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/alison-renteln\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Alison Dundes Renteln is Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy at USC where she teaches Law and Public Policy with an emphasis on comparative and international law. After she received her A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard-Radcliffe, she spent a year in a legal studies program at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (UC Berkeley) and a JD (USC). She has received awards for teaching, research, and mentoring, including the USC Raubenheimer Award (fall 2022) which recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and service. In 2024-2025 she had a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellowship at the World Bank where she focused on the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict.Her publications focus on international human rights, particularly cultural rights, environmental rights, and socio-legal studies. Professor Renteln has published two single-authored books (one by Oxford University Press), two coauthored books (Cambridge University Press), and six coedited volumes (one in its third edition). She has published 70 articles. Her books include: International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism (Sage, 1990; Quid Pro, 2014), The Cultural Defense (Oxford, 2004), Cultural Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Images and Human Rights co-edited with Nancy Stein (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), Bioethics and Human Rights (Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2024), International Human Rights: A Survey coauthored with Cher Weixia Chen (Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Ethical University: Transforming Higher Education co-edited with Wanda Teays (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).For decades Renteln has taught judges, lawyers, court interpreters, jury consultants, and police officers in the U.S. and abroad. She collaborated with the UN on implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, lectured on comparative legal ethics at ABA-sponsored conferences in Asia, and served on a California committee of Human Rights Watch. Renteln served on civil rights commissions, e.g., California Advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Lauren Restrepo',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/restrepo-lauren\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Lauren Restrepo is an adjunct assistant professor of law at USC Gould School of Law. She teaches computer crime law to JD and LLM students. She is the Deputy Chief of the National Security Division\u2019s Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Los Angeles. She earned her JD from NYU School of Law and BA from Vanderbilt University.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ireneo-reus-350x500-1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Ireneo Reus',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ireneo Reus',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/reus-ireneo\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Ireneo A. Reus III is an award-winning, groundbreaking and AV-rated business attorney in Long Beach, Calif. He is also a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law, where he teaches \u201cLegal Writing, Research, and Advocacy.\u201d He serves as outside general counsel to businesses in various industries, including healthcare, media, and real estate. Before establishing his own law firm, Reus worked for a civil litigation firm, a national public finance law firm, and the General Counsel\u2019s Office of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.\u00a0 He earned BA degrees at Whittier College in 2001, where he double majored in economics and political science, and was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship.\u00a0 He earned his JD from UCLA School of Law in 2004, where he was a member of the UCLA Moot Court Honors Program, and senior articles editor of the UCLA Journal of Law & Technology.\u00a0 In 2018, Reus became the first Filipino American to serve as the president of the UCLA School of Law Alumni Association.In 2024, the California Lawyers Association\u2019s (CLA) Board of Representatives elected Reus as CLA vice chair, making him the highest ranking Asian American to serve as an officer in CLA\u2019s history.\u00a0 Prior to serving on the Board of Representatives of CLA and the Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section of CLA, Mr. Reus served in leadership positions in the State Bar of California, including as the first Filipino American in the State Bar\u2019s history to serve as chair of the California Young Lawyers Association in 2012.\u00a0 He also served on the State Bar of California\u2019s Council on Access & Fairness and Task Force on Admissions Regulation Reform.\u00a0 In 2016, the Los Angeles Law Library featured Reus in an exhibit and documentary film titled \u201cOpening the Door: Personal Stories of Groundbreaking Los Angeles Lawyers and Judges.\u201dReus has presented MCLE programs at the State Bar of California, CLA, NAPABA, and ABA conferences in Tokyo, Japan and Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States on topics such as ethics, employment law, civil litigation, social media and professional development.\u00a0 He served on the ABA\u2019s Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education (SCOCLE) from 2019 to 2022 and currently serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems (SCOTIS). He has also served as a contributing author in the ABA\u2019s best-selling book, Careers in International Law (5th Edition), and the State Bar of California\u2019s Guide to Growing and Managing a Law Office (2012).\u00a0 Reus is also a member of CLA\u2019s inaugural delegation to the ABA House of Delegates and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Nicole Reyes',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/reyes-nicole\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Beverly Rich',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/rich-beverly\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Camille Gear Rich_Dec2020b.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Camille Gear Rich',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Dorothy W. Nelson Professor of Law and Sociology',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/camille-gear-rich\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Camille Gear Rich joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in the fall of 2007 following five years of private practice. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, feminist legal theory, family law, children and the law and the First Amendment. She is the founder and director of PRYSM: The USC Initiative for the Study of Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law. She is also the founding director of Gould\u2019s First Generation Legal Professionals program. Rich is widely know for her research on law, discrimination and identity formation issues related to race, class, gender and sexuality. Rich was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School in Winter\/Spring of 2017. She was a visiting professor at Yale Law School in Spring 2019. Professor Rich was a visiting online professor at the University of Virginia Law School in Spring 2021.Prior to entering private practice, Rich clerked in the Southern District of New York for District Judge Robert L. Carter. She also clerked on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett. She joined Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP in 2003, where she worked primarily on general commercial litigation and internal investigations. Rich also worked on various pro bono matters involving Title VII retaliation claims and disability rights. Her primary pro bono project was her work as co-counsel with the Legal Aid Society Prisoners Rights Project on a prisoners\u2019 rights class action raising constitutional claims on behalf of all female prisoners in New York State prisons against New York State Department of Corrections officials. Plaintiffs challenged various prison staffing, supervision and training policies that created an unreasonable risk for female prisoners of sexual abuse by male corrections officers. Professor Rich was awarded the Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Award in recognition of her work on prisoners\u2019 rights claims.Rich has served as\u00a0the Associate Provost of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Associate Provost for Student and Faculty Initiatives in the Social Sciences. She served in the Provost Office for 5 years. While serving as Associate Provost she founded Diversity and Inclusion Awareness Week, that grew into a 100 event diversity conference that provided diversity-related training sessions to the USC community. Additionally she was co-founder of Wicked Problems Practicuum, a cross-school program that invited graduate students from various programs to create think-tanks that partner with community and government agencies to collaborate on solving wicked problems affecting global mega-cities. She also launched the cross-school First Generation Professionals Program, which brings FGP students from across USC\u2019s 19 schools together to share resources and experiences.Rich graduated with honors from Brown University in 1993. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1998 and was a senior editor on the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She was awarded a postgraduate research fellowship at Yale Law School, during which she began her research on ways that antidiscrimination laws can better accommodate the shifting contingent nature of racial and ethnic identity. In 2020 & 2021 Professor Rich\u2019s work was honored and included in an annual compendium of best articles on Women and the Law.Professor Camille Gear Rich discusses\u00a0Who Defines Your Race\u00a0with Los Angeles Time columnist Sandy Banks; see\u00a0video\u00a0\u00a0Notable PresentationsAmerican University Washington College of Law, Racial Ambiguity Blues (book chapters presentation) (April 2022)University of Maryland School of Law,\u00a0Constitutional Law Schmooze, The Welfare Queen and the Construct of Citizenship (March 2022)Eversheds Sutherland,\u00a0Black History Month Keynote Address, Racial Ambiguity Blues (book chapter presentation) (February 2022)The University of Rochester, Keynote SBAI Teach-In on Reproductive Justice, The Welfare Queen and the Right To Reproduce\u00a0(February 2022)Implicit Bias and Microaggressions: Navigating Discrimination Risks in Legal Practice, with Judicial Perspectives from the Los Angeles Superior Court (with Carol Ross Burnett) (November 2021)NYSCAA & NYSDA Annual Conference, Keynote, The War on Poverty and the March Towards Social Justice (October 2021)UC Irvine School of Law, Symposium The Interplay of Race, Gender, Class, Crime and Justice, (invitation to present The Racial Politics of Masculinity in the Era of Elective Race: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Dilemmas of Desiring Whiteness) (April 2014)UCLA Law School, UCLA Institute for Research and Employment, Symposium on Race, Labor and the Law (invitation to explore the implications that the article Marginal Whiteness has for labor politics and labor law litigation) (February 2014)Stanford Law School, Conference co-hosted by Stanford Law Review and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, The Civil Rights Act at 50 (invitation to present Post-Racial Hydraulics: The Role of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the Repackaging of Race and Gender Discrimination Claims) (January 2014)2014 AALS Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Professors, Hot Topic\/Bridge Program Panel:\u00a0Self Defense, Stand Your Ground Laws, and the Shooting of Trayvon Martin (invitation extended to present The Racial Politics of Masculinity in the Era of Elective Race: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Dilemmas of Desiring Whitenes) (January 4, 2014)Southern California Junior Faculty Workshop, Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Definition, (September 28, 2013)Berkeley Law School,The Racial Politics of Masculinity in the Era of Elective Race: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Dilemmas of Desiring Whiteness (presentation honoring Angela Harris at Harris Festschrift) (September 27, 2013)Stanford Law School, Race and the Law Roundtable, (May 2013)UC Irvine School of Law, Critical Race Theory Speaker Series, Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self Definition, (March 2013)University of Maryland College of Law: Family Secrets Symposium, Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law, (March 2013)University of Minnesota Law School, Faculty Workshop, Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law, (February 2013)USC Gould School of Law, I,Elective Race: Voluntary Racial Self-identification and the Future of Title VII,\u00a0(February 2013)University of Minnesota Law School, Faculty Workshop. Elective Race: Voluntary Racial Self Identification and the Future of Title VII, (November 2012)UC Berkeley Law School, Seminar on Race and Sexuality, Marriage Markets and the Price of Masculinity, (October 2012)Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network Conference, Intersectionality in the Era of Elective Race, (October 2012)Fordham Law School, Faculty Workshop, Elective Race: Voluntary Racial Self Identification and the Future of Title VII, (September 2012)Northwestern\/Loyola Law School \u2013 Labor and Employment Law Colloquium \u201cAffirmative Action in the Era of Elective Race: Racial Commodification and the Lesson of Elizabeth Warren,\u201d September, 2012Law and Society Association Conference, Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law,\u00a0(June 2012)\u201cElective Race: Racial Determination Trials in the Post Racial Era, Duke Law School Center on Race Law and Politics\u201d (May 2012)University of Chicago Law School Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex, and Gender, Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(April 2012)University of Iowa Faculty Workshop,\u00a0Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(March 2012)Association for Law Culture and the Humanities, Panlist,\u00a0Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(March 2012)USC Critical Race Theory\/Critical Legal Studies Speaker Series, Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(February 2012)Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network Conference,\u00a0Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(January 2012)USC Faculty Workshop,\u00a0Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law\u00a0(November 2011)USC Center for Law Humanities and Culture, October 2011 (Commentary on Rick Bank\u2019s recent book Is Marriage for White People),\u00a0Masculinity Crisis of Marriage Crisis? (forum presentation)USC Critical Legal Studies\/Critical Race Theory Working Group,\u00a0Marginal Whiteness\u00a0(October 2011)Sixth Annual Labor and Employment Law Colloquium,\u00a0Marginal Whiteness\u00a0 (September 2011)Opening Plenary, AALS Rethinking Equality Workshop, Working Identity and the Female Law Professor\u00a0(feminist legal theory conference), (June 2011)UC Irvine Law, Race and Socio-economic Class: Searching for Equality, UC Irvine Law School, Marginal Whiteness Revisited, (March 2011)AALS Annual Conference, Labor and Employment Section,\u00a0Elective Race: Voluntary Racial Self Identification and the Enforcement of Title VII\u00a0(January 2011)UCLA CRS Symposium: Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics, Transforming Movements, Intersectionality As Political Strategy: Discursive Maneuvers in the Obama Presidential Campaign (March 2010)UC Berkeley Women of Color Collective Faculty Colloquium, Marginal Whiteness\u00a0(March 2010)Moderator, UCLA CRS Symposium: Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics, Transforming Movements (Participants: Julie Su, Cheryl Harris and Paul Butler), Intersectionality and the Courts\u00a0(March 2010)AALS Mid Year Work Law Conference,\u00a0Desiring WhitenessEvents co-sponsored by PRYSM: The USC Initiative for the Study of Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law:PRYSM Book Talk Series: Skimmed \u2013 Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice \u2013 by Andrea Freeman (2020)Session 1:\u00a0PRYSM & USC Marshall School of Business with Sharoni LittleSession 2: PRYSM & USC Medical School with Joyce RichieSession 3: PRYSM & First Baptist Congregational Church',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-66');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-35');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['R'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stephen-rich_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Professor Stephen M. Rich',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Stephen M. Rich',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Vice Dean for Academic Research and Intellectual Life, and Maurice Jones, Jr. \u2013 Class of 1925 Professor of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/stephen-m-rich\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'R',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Stephen Rich is the Maurice Jones, Jr. \u2013 Class of 1925 Professor of Law at the USC\u2019s Gould School of Law (\u201cUSC Gould\u201d), where he teaches courses in employment discrimination law, constitutional equality law, and civil procedure. He also serves as the Vice Dean for Academic Research and Intellectual Life.Rich is an expert in the field of antidiscrimination law. His work blends statutory and constitutional analysis with contemporary research in sociology and social psychology in order to analyze familiar problems concerning social injustice, affirmative action, and the practical limitations of antidiscrimination law\u2019s enforcement from new perspectives. 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For example, he has criticized the Supreme Court\u2019s use of textualist methods to disrupt continuity between its past and present decisions in the field of employment discrimination law, and he has argued against the convergence of constitutional and statutory legal standards in order to permit the government to explore different approaches to addressing the persistent problem of racial inequality.\u00a0 In his most recent work, forthcoming in Southern California Law Review, Rich argues that the law\u2019s current understanding of diversity in education and employment underserves the goal of equal opportunity, and he proposes a new vision of diversity that would apply beyond the limited context of traditional affirmative action programs.Prior to joining the faculty of USC Gould, Rich practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he litigated a variety of high profile matters concerning topics such as freedom of speech, securities fraud, trademark infringement, and the right to counsel. Rich entered private practice after having served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his JD from Yale Law School, and he received his MA and BA in African American Studies concurrently from Yale University. He won prizes for his senior essay and master\u2019s thesis, both of which concentrated on issues of intellectual history and literary theory, and he was awarded the A. Bartlett Giammati Fellowship by the university.\u00a0 In between his two stays at Yale, Rich won a Fullbright Scholarship to study music in Fes, Morocco. Returning to the United States reaffirmed his commitment to issues of social justice and equality. While at Yale Law School, Rich was an Olin Fellow and after graduation performed research on issues of race and political equality as a recipient of Harvard Law School\u2019s Reginald Lewis Fellowship. 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The Project has won the release of more than 250 clients, including more than 25 clients sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.Rummel has worked to pass significant legislative reforms in California, including expanding the scope of habeas relief for people with a history of intimate partner violence related to their crime (AB 593 amending Penal Code \u00a7 1473.5); requiring the parole board to give specialized consideration to a history of intimate partner violence at parole hearings (AB 1593 amending Penal Code \u00a7 4801); creating a process for 16 and 17-year olds sentenced to life without parole to petition for a resentencing hearing (SB 9 amending Penal Code \u00a7 1170(d)); creating the Youth Offender Parole Hearing process (SB 260, SB 261, and AB 1308 amending Penal Code \u00a7\u00a7 3051 and 4801); revising the fitness criteria for juveniles to be transferred to adult court (SB 382 amending Penal Code \u00a7 1170.17 and Welfare and Institutions Code \u00a7 707); creating a constitutional remedy for 16 and 17-year olds sentenced to life without possibility of parole (SB 394 amending Penal Code \u00a7 3051); and providing legal consultation to minors prior to custodial interrogation (SB 395 amending WIC \u00a7 625.6).In 2024, Governor Newsom appointed Rummel to serve on the Committee for Revision of the Penal Code.Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty, Rummel served in the United States Attorney\u2019s Office in Los Angeles prosecuting federal criminal civil rights offenses and serving as deputy chief in the General Crimes Section. Previously, Rummel was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she handled state court prosecutions and appellate matters.Rummel currently teaches a post-conviction clinical seminar and Legislative Policy Practicum. She also has taught Criminal Law, Legal Analysis of Evidence, and Trial Advocacy.Rummel holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with highest honors and a JD from the University of Chicago with honors. 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Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/elyn-saks\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Elyn Saks is Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law; Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the UC San Diego, School of Medicine; and Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She served as USC Gould\u2019s associate dean for research from 2005-2010 and also teaches at the Keck School of Medicine. Saks received her JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Science from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD, Hon) from Pepperdine University.Saks writes extensively in the area of law and mental health, having published five books and more than fifty articles and book chapters. Her research has included the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of people with mental illness. Her memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. She has won numerous honors, including a 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called \u201cGenius Grant\u201d).In fall 2010, she announced she was using funds from the MacArthur Fellowship to create the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at USC, a think tank that studies issues at the intersection of law, mental health, and ethics. The Institute spotlights one important mental health issue per academic year and is a collaborative effort that has included faculty and graduate students from several USC departments: law, psychiatry, psychology, social work, philosophy, neuroscience, gerontology, and engineering.In addition the The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), other books include Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (Fordham University Press, 2013), Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Yale University Press, 1999), and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (New York University Press, 1997).Before joining the USC Gould faculty in 1989, Saks was an attorney in Connecticut and instructor at the University of Bridgeport School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University before earning her master of letters from Oxford University and her JD from Yale, where she edited the Yale Law Journal. Saks is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2013, she was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to a three-year term on the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) National Advisory Council. She also serves as a board member of Mental Health Advocacy Services, Bring Change 2 Mind, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Burton Blatt Institute. In 2004, she won both the Associate\u2019s Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship and the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/rob.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Rob Saltzman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/rob-saltzman\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Rob Saltzman studies legal and professional ethics, the learning process in law school, legislation and the political process, and disabilities issues. He oversaw USC Gould\u2019s Academic Support Program and taught Legal Profession and Legal Analysis of Evidence.Dean Saltzman was a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission, which\u00a0oversees the L.A. 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His writings include \u201cAffirmative Action in Law School Admissions and Legal Employment: Facts, Observations, and Suggestions for Gatekeepers\u201d (Insights: Issues and Opportunities for Law Deans & Hiring Attorneys, 1998).Prior to joining USC Law in 1988, Dean Saltzman practiced with a Colorado law firm, served as legal counsel to an elected Los Angeles County supervisor, and was special counsel to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. 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Sarian currently wears two hats: global chief privacy officer for Ingram Micro, and lecturer in law teaching Information Privacy at the USC Gould School of Law.By way of background, after spending over two decades as an AV-Preeminent rated Los Angeles business litigator, Sarian was recruited to become general counsel for eHarmony in 2013. There, he provided strategic legal advice to the C-suite and assured global compliance in all areas of data privacy, including GDPR, PECR and COPPA. He implemented robust, best practices cybersecurity measures, including incident response plans, as well as privacy policies, terms of service, safety tips, and disaster recovery plans.After five productive years at eHarmony, Sarian became general counsel at OilR when eHarmony was acquired. At OilR, an early stage blockchain stable coin, he advised the startup in areas such as whitepaper, intellectual property, corporate structure, contracts, securities, SEC and FINRA issues, KYC\/AML and capital raising.In October of 2019, Sarian joined Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, a national law firm, where he specialized in information privacy and ADA, Title III website access law, and chaired their Digital Workplace and Data Privacy Practice Group.Sarian was asked to join the faculty at the USC Gould School of Law in December of 2022 as an lecturer of law in of Information Privacy Law, where he has just finished teaching his second semester and will return for the Spring semester.Sarian joined USC Gould December of 2021 as a lecturer of law, and has been teaching Information Privacy Law.In November 2022, Sarian was recruited to join Ingram Micro, a multi-national Fortune 100 tech company, as its global chief privacy officer. There, he is in charge of all privacy compliance worldwide.As a nationally recognized thought leader, lecturer and panel member in privacy, cybersecurity and information governance, Sarian has served as a keynote speaker and faculty member for ALM Legaltech and cyberSecure, the Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel All Hands Meeting, the World Congress IP Summit, the Innovation Enterprise IP Innovation Forum, and the Consero General Counsel and Legal Operations Forums. His select panel discussions have included Cybersecurity: Bloomberg Big Law Business\u2013West, DLA Piper\u2019s Global Perspectives on Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity Roundtable, the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute, the Peer 150 Cyber Attic at Google Ventures, the WSJ Pro Cybersecurity panel, and the UCLA School of Law, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. 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He brings decades of senior-level experience across the entertainment, media and digital industries.Schneider most recently served as executive vice president of Business Affairs & Operations for National Geographic Content, where he oversaw all non-creative business functions, including strategic deal-making, business policy and operational management. He also was chief legal officer of National Geographic Partners, the joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society.Before joining National Geographic, Schneider was executive vice president of Business & Legal Affairs and general counsel at Shine America (now Endemol Shine U.S.), leading its in-house legal and business affairs division. He also held senior leadership roles at NBCUniversal as executive vice president of Business Affairs for Entertainment & Digital Networks, where he managed business affairs across networks including Bravo, Oxygen, Style, Sprout, Telemundo, Fandango, and Daily Candy.From 2007 to 2011, Schneider served as senior vice president of Business Affairs and deputy general counsel at Lifetime Television Networks, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. In that role, he oversaw business and legal affairs for Lifetime\u2019s programming, marketing and digital platforms, as well as scripted content business affairs across Lifetime, A&E and The History Channel. His earlier career includes executive legal and business affairs positions at Fox Television Studios, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures. He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.He began his legal career in private practice, first as a litigator at Slaff, Mosk & Rudman, and later as a transactional attorney representing talent and production companies at Katz, Golden & Sullivan. He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Edward C. Reed Jr., chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.A dedicated legal educator, Schneider has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and has taught entertainment law and media business at Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Heinz College, Pepperdine University School of Law and USC Gould. He also has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a member of the USC Entertainment Law Symposium syllabus committee.Schneider earned his JD from USC Gould School of Law, where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. 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Her scholarship focuses on narrative theory; law, property and the nature of subjectivity in literature; and popular culture and film.Schor has taught at USC since 1986. She is an active faculty participant in the UC Dickens Project, where she regularly leads graduate seminars and organizes conferences on such topics as \u201cVictorian Soundings,\u201d \u201cVictoria Redressed: Feminism and Nineteenth-Century Studies,\u201d and \u201cVictorian Terror.\u201d Her books include\u00a0Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel (Oxford, 1992) and\u00a0Dickens and the Daughter of the House (Cambridge, 1999). She also has written essays in companions to numerous books on Dickens, Jane Austen, Victorian novels and Victorian literature and culture. Her current research centers on women and realism.She received her BA in British and American literature from Scripps College and her MA and PhD from Stanford University, where she specialized in Victorian literature and culture, drawing on work in intellectual history, feminist studies and the history of the novel. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a 2002 Zumberge Faculty Research Fellowship from USC; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship; and a Graves Foundation Fellowship.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Barrett%20Schreiner%20Photo%20350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Barrett Schreiner',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills and Associate Director of the Academic Success Program',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/barrett-schreiner\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Barrett Schreiner is an associate professor of lawyering skills and the associate director of the Academic Success program at the USC Gould School of Law.Previously, Schreiner worked more than five years at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, where he most recently served as assistant professor of law and practice and director of academic mastery. He taught Academic Mastery workshops, Advanced Litigation Writing, Advanced Legal Analysis and the Bar Exam Workshop. He also taught Civil Procedure and Property in Pepperdine\u2019s online Master of Legal Studies and Master of Dispute Resolution programs.Schreiner also practiced law in various capacities for more than a decade. He ran a solo law practice, was of counsel at the Minneapolis-based law firm Nilan Johnson Lewis PA, was a litigation associate at the Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown LLP and was as an appellate judicial attorney at the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal.Schreiner graduated from UCLA School of Law, where he served as a managing editor of the\u00a0UCLA Law Review. While in law school, Schreiner interned at the Environmental Law Foundation in Oakland, Calif. and the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, The Netherlands. Prior to law school, he earned his MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. and a BS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Cameron Schroeder',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/schroeder-cameron\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Nancy Schroeder',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/schroeder-nancy\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Roger Schroeder.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Roger Schroeder',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/schroeder-roger\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Roger Schroeder has had a diverse career on both the creative and business sides of the entertainment industry. \u00a0He earned a JD degree from the USC Gould School of Law and as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He spent over 12 years as an attorney at a boutique entertainment firm in Century City where he represented the major studios and networks on various copyright and rights issues.\u00a0 He then moved to an in-house attorney position at NBCUniversal (2016 \u2013 2021). Since 2021, he has been part of the legal team at Sony Pictures, providing guidance to its film, television and streaming divisions on the production of new properties as well as the continuing exploitation of previously produced and historical properties.\u00a0Schroeder is well-versed in the creative side of the business. He wrote the film \u201cA Boyfriend for Christmas,\u201d which has now become a Christmas perennial. He also served as a writer of the popular NBC TV series \u201cDays of our Lives,\u201d winning an Emmy award for his work on the series in 2012 and was nominated for a WGA Award in 2013. Schroeder is also a member of both the WGA and the Television Academy.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/steve-schulman.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Steve Schulman',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/schulman-steve\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Steve Schulman maintains a substantive practice in many areas of public interest law, including human rights, immigration, assistance to military personnel and poverty law matters. He has handled dozens of asylum and other immigration cases, with a particular emphasis on complex matters, such as those involving the application of terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility.Schulman joined Akin Gump in 2006 as its first full-time pro bono partner. Since he joined the firm, participation in the pro bono practice has increased substantially in every office and across every practice group; Akin Gump lawyers now devote an average of nearly 90 hours annually to pro bono client matters. Under his leadership, the firm has built strong relationships with local and national legal services organizations and has developed experience in several areas of pro bono practice, such as representing charter schools, working with refugees and victims of human rights abuses, and providing legal counsel to military personnel and their families.Schulman leads and supervises the firm\u2019s Pro Bono Scholars Program. Started in Washington in 2008, this two-summer program, now in Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington, New York, and Houston, identifies and develops top law students to become the next generation of Akin Gump attorneys committed to building the firm\u2019s pro bono practice.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Schwarz-Gondek.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/schwarz-gondek-nicolai\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Nicolai M. Schwarz-Gondek is a partner in the Century City office of Sidley Austin LLP where his practice focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other complex corporate transactions. Schwarz-Gondek regularly represents private equity sponsors, family offices and other institutional investors in connection with mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and leveraged and management buyouts. Schwarz-Gondek also advises target and acquiring companies (including the portfolio companies of private equity firms) on a broad range of merger and acquisition transactions. At USC Gould School of Law, Schwarz-Gondek teaches contract drafting, analysis and negotiation as a lecturer in law.Before joining Sidley Austin LLP, Schwarz-Gondek was a partner in the private equity and M&A practice groups of O\u2019Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City. Prior thereto, Schwarz-Gondek was a shareholder in the corporate practice group of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, PC, in Santa Monica and practiced in the corporate department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles and in the mergers and acquisitions and public company advisory groups of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.Schwarz-Gondek holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from USC Gould School of Law, where he graduated first in his class, and received a Doctor Iuris (PhD equivalent), summa cum laude, from the University of Augsburg with a doctoral thesis on German tax law. Schwarz-Gondek is also a graduate of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich where he completed his First State Examination (JD equivalent) and obtained his Diplom-Jurist (Univ.), specializing in the areas of business and corporate law. In addition, Schwarz-Gondek spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Scotten_Donald.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Donald M. Scotten',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Vice Dean for Administration, and Professor of the Practice of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/donald-m-scotten\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Donald Scotten is vice dean for administration and professor of the practice of law. Scotten specializes in business organizational law and business entity governance, and teaches Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Introduction to the U.S. Legal System.Scotten currently serves as of counsel for\u00a0Akerman LLP. Previously, Scotten was first vice president and senior counsel for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and was a senior associate at Howrey LLP.Scotten received a BA,\u00a0cum laude, in Economics and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania; a JD, Order of the Coif, from the College of William & Mary Law School; and an Executive LLM in Taxation from New York University.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/adamsechooler.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Adam Sechooler',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/sechooler-adam\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Adam Sechooler is an experienced litigator and a lecturer at USC Gould School of Law. His practice includes representing businesses and individuals in a diverse range of high-stakes and high-profile matters in state and federal court. Sechooler has experience in all areas of litigation, including drafting dispositive motions and appellate briefs, developing case strategy, deposing senior executives and expert witnesses, arguing motions in court, and trial preparation.Sechooler was a member of the second graduating class at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where he was a Lead Articles Editor for the UC Irvine Law Review. Before law school, Sechooler was a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught courses in research methodology and conducted an in-depth, qualitative study of relationships between small businesses and community business banks.In addition to teaching at USC Gould, Sechooler has taught at UC Berkeley School of Law and UC Irvine School of Law.\u00a0 He has published numerous articles in legal publications and scholarly journals.Sechooler clerked for the Hon. John W. 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For her work, she has received a National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation and the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Sherwood Prize for Combatting Hate.Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, Seiden practiced litigation at Hueston Hennigan LLP and clerked for the Honorable Philip S. Gutierrez for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She obtained her BA from the University of Southern California and graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law, where she participated in the Supreme Court Clinic and was awarded the Lawrence Irell Prize for the highest academic average in her law school class.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Edward Seo',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/seo-edward\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ankit Shah',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/shah-ankit\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Ankit Shah works as an inpatient pediatrician at the LAC+USC Medical Center and directs the social science curriculum at the USC Keck School of Medicine.\u00a0 Shah attended Creighton University for his undergraduate degree and Columbia University for medical and law school. His academic interests are health policy and bioethics, especially focusing on underprivileged youth.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Mona Shah-350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mona R. Shah',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/shah-mona-r\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mona Shah is a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law. She currently teaches Legal Profession and Academic and Professional Skills For U.S. Law Studies I.Outside of USC, Shah is a litigation attorney in Los Angeles where she has enjoyed a long and successful career representing clients in civil legal disputes of all kinds. Shah maintains an active practice, appearing in both state and federal court, as well as before various administrative bodies. She also provides day-to-day counsel to several corporate and individual clients, providing them advice on legal and business issues. Shah also serves as a mentor to junior attorneys. Being dedicated to nonprofit work, she is an emeritus board member of the Asian Pacific Community Fund, and an active board member of Career Sparks. She has been involved in numerous California Bar and minority bar associations, including serving as past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California, and on the board of the South Asian Bar Association of North America.In addition to her current practice, Shah maintains an active mediation practice. She received her BA in Political Science from UC Irvine and her JD from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. She is a member of the California State Bar.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Dan-Shapiro.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Daniel Shapiro',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/shapiro-daniel\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: ' Daniel Shapiro teaches Regulatory Compliance online for USC Gould School of Law. He is the Director of Research Compliance for the university. In this capacity, he is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of effective compliance programs arising out of regulatory and policy requirements associated with the conduct of research at the university. This includes risk assessment, policy development, education and training, monitoring, audits, investigations, and corrective action.  Shapiro\u2019s substantive areas of focus include individual and institutional conflicts of interest, research misconduct, export controls, FCPA, OFAC, human subjects research, financial administration of sponsored research, radiation safety, institutional biosafety, chemical safety, controlled substances, human and animal subjects research, technology transfer, immigration, and drug-free workplace. He obtained both his BA and JD from USC. \u00a0',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-77');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/mshapiro.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Michael H. Shapiro',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Dorothy W. Nelson Professor Emeritus of Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/michael-h-shapiro\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Michael H. Shapiro specializes in bioethics and in constitutional law, and in particular, medical and legal ethical issues surrounding research and experimentation; reproductive, genetic, and behavior control; and death and dying. He taught Constitutional Law and\u00a0Bioethics and Law.A prolific author on medical ethics and legal questions in the advent of new technologies, Shapiro has written Cases, Materials, and Problems on Bioethics and Law, 2nd ed. (with others, Thomson West, 2003), \u201cHuman Enhancement Uses of Biotechnology, Policy, Technological Enhancement and Human Equality\u201d in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (Wiley, 2000), and \u201cThe Identity of Identity: Moral and Legal Aspects of Technological Self-Transformation\u201d (Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy, 2005).Professor Shapiro earned his BA and MA from the UCLA and earned his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was associate editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He practiced with Swerdlow, Glikbarg & Shimer; was a staff attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance; and was a staff attorney, assistant director of litigation, and acting director of litigation at the Western Center on Law & Poverty. Shapiro lectured at USC Gould School of Law in 1966 and joined the USC Gould faculty again in 1970. He also has taught at Yale Law School and UCLA Law School. Shapiro sat on the Institutional Review Board for Los Angeles County\/USC Medical Center, reviewed proposals to Study the Human Genome Project for the U.S. Department of Energy, and is a member of the Pacific Council for Health Policy and Ethics.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-56');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-87');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-35');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sharma-edit-2_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Deepika Sharma',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Clinical Associate Professor of Law, and Director, Housing Law and Policy Clinic',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/deepika-sharma\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Deepika Sharma is a clinical associate professor of law and the founding director of the Housing Law and Policy Clinic at the University of Southern California\u2019s Gould School of Law. She joined USC Gould after 15 years of working on housing justice as a litigator, community lawyer and policy director. In 2023, Sharma was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as a Commissioner for the United to House LA (ULA) Citizens Oversight Committee tasked with overseeing the city\u2019s largest dedicated budget and its programs aimed at addressing the ongoing housing crisis.Prior to joining Gould, Sharma served in newly created roles as a director of housing security initiatives and policy director for the Los Angeles Mayor and for Councilmember Nithya Raman. In these roles, she drafted tenant protective legislation and strengthened initiatives aimed at ensuring that vulnerable tenants remained housed during the global pandemic.Prior to working in policy, Sharma spent six years as senior attorney at Public Counsel (PC) where she founded and led the affirmative housing litigation unit. Notably, at PC, she led a ground-breaking multi-building Fair Housing Act case challenging the discriminatory harassment and predation against tenants rampant in gentrifying neighborhoods leading to a $2.5 million settlement. The case gained national media attention and is lauded for its novel settlement term that set aside housing for voucher holders. Prior to joining PC, she was the supervising attorney at the Eviction Defense Network (EDN) where she litigated hundreds of unlawful detainer cases and first chaired dozens of jury and bench trials.Sharma\u2019s distinguished legal career also includes her experience serving as an associate in the Litigation Department of Morrison & Foerster\u2019s Los Angeles office and working abroad for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She is well-known for litigating cases that have resulted in published decisions that broadened rights for tenants, including Martinez v. Optimus, Crasnick v. Marquez and Nivo 1 LLC v. Antunez.A leading expert in housing law, Sharma is frequently asked to present to lawmakers, including L.A. City Council offices and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, to inform policy decisions related to tenant protections. She is also widely cited in the news \u2013 by local, national, and international media outlets \u2013 on topics around housing challenges and policy solutions.Sharma earned her JD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007. While in law school, she was a clerk for the East Bay Community Law Center in the housing unit and for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. She earned her BA degree in mass communications from UC Berkeley in 2000, where she graduated with the highest honors.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Sheffield Larry_thumb2.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Larry Sheffield',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/sheffield-larry\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Larry Sheffield is an accomplished lawyer with vast experience working on both the buyer and talent side of the entertainment business. Originally from the greater Philadelphia area, Sheffield came to Los Angeles to attend law school at Pepperdine University after completing his undergraduate studies at The College of William and Mary in Virginia.Seeing an opportunity to broaden his understanding of the entertainment business after graduating from law school and to pursue a childhood dream, Sheffield accepted a junior executive position in the business affairs department at the Writers and Artist Agency. Working under the supervision of Dina Appleton, the author of Hollywood Deal Making, Sheffield honed his skills as a tough but fair negotiator and earned the reputation as a deal-closer. Following a merger with Paradigm, he became an executive in Paradigm\u2019s business affairs department where he spent the better part of 5 years. 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It was during this period that Sheffield proved to be invaluable by maintaining an orderly transition for the many agents and clients who moved from Montana to APA.Sheffield has found success in being a tough, thoughtful and zealous advocate while also being a fair negotiator and believes that you can fight to get the most for your clients while remaining professional and keeping good working relationships with buyers, lawyers, managers, agents and other business professionals.When not hard at work, Sheffield enjoys traveling, golfing, tennis, basketball, football, baseball, softball, hiking, yoga and open wheel car racing. 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Before joining the Gould School of Law faculty, she was a professor at the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. Shokes earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA, summa cum laude, from UCLA, and is admitted to practice law in New York and California.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Shubb.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Glenn Shubb',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/shubb-glenn\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Glenn Shubb has practiced general criminal and civil litigation for 30 years and is an active member of the California Bar Association. He holds degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.Shubb is a creative and practical problem solver for a wide variety of issues at the intersection of law and technology. For most of his career, his practice has been specifically focused on eDiscovery and the defensible use of technology for investigations, fact development and other complex litigation needs. As an eDiscovery expert and practitioner, Shubb has extensive experience with all aspects of electronically stored information (ESI) and the use of legal technology through the entire litigation lifecycle. His strengths include management of people and process, project management, consulting, strategic response, needs assessment, collection scoping, custodian interviewing, workflow design, fact development, matter budgeting, development of standards of practice, analytics and metrics and implementation of appropriate technical solutions.Shubb spent the early part of his career in the courtroom litigating criminal and civil matters. Subsequently, Shubb has worked in AMLAW 100 ranked firms for over 20 years in roles as eDiscovery Counsel and Director of Automated Litigation Support. Shubb also worked as a Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Inc. in their Digital Insights and Risk Management practice. He is currently employed as the Managing Director of Winston Legal Solutions and eDiscovery Services at Winston and Strawn, LLP.Throughout his career, Shubb represented Fortune 500 companies, law firms and governmental entities. Many of these representations included high-profile, high-stakes and \u201cbet the company\u201d matters in the areas of media law, technology, environmental tort, employee mobility and trade secrets, contract disputes and general commercial litigation. He has also managed numerous internal investigations and regulatory matters, including second requests under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.In addition to his practice, Shubb is involved with industry organizations and associations that address issues involving law and technology. He is an industry recognized expert on effective and efficient eDiscovery and litigation support. He currently serves on the Executive Committee on Law Practice Management and Technology for the California Lawyers\u2019 Association and is involved with the International Legal Technology Association and the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium. In these roles, he works to increase the level of understanding and discourse on legal technology issues in the industry and is a frequent speaker at events and conferences.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Barbara Seigel 090519.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Barbara Siegel',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/siegel-barbara\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Barbara K. Siegel was a supervising and managing attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLSLA) from 1997 to 2011. She was the original supervising attorney involved in establishing and implementing the Health Consumer Center, a NLSLA project funded by The California Endowment. The Health Consumer Center (HCC) operates a multi-lingual health rights hotline and advocacy program for low-income residents of Los Angeles County, offering everything from telephone assistance to representation at administrative and court proceedings. In addition, HCC offers outreach and education on health benefit programs and does health policy work at the local, state and federal levels. While at NLSLA Siegel supervised the initiation of NLSLA\u2019s Medical Legal Community Partnerships at the Northeast Valley Health Corporation\u2019s Sun Valley Health Center, St. John\u2019s Well Child & Family Center, and Clinica Oscar Romero.Now retired from NLSLA, Siegel currently teaches two courses at Gould School of Law and Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California (USC): (1) Legal and Social Determinants of Health in Vulnerable Populations, and (2) Medical Legal Partnership Seminar and Practicum. The courses, which are both clinical and academic, teaches law and medical students to identify unmet legal needs that impact health and to work collaboratively to improve individual and community health status.Siegel currently serves on Los Angeles County\u2019s Hospital and Health Care Delivery Commission as well as the Los Angeles Department of Health Services Ambulatory Care Advisory Board.Prior to joining Neighborhood Legal Services, Siegel worked at the law firm of Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O\u2019Keefe & Nichols. Before attending law school, Siegel worked as a physical therapist specializing in the care of persons with chronic disabilities. In addition to her degree in physical therapy, Siegel has a MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health and a JD from Southwestern University School of Law.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-547');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ashley_sim_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Ashley Sim',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Ashley Sim ',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Director of Admissions and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Graduate & International Programs',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/sim-ashley\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Ashley Sim is the Director of Admissions and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Graduate and International Programs.Prior to working in higher education, Sim practiced corporate and real estate law at Jones Day and O\u2019Melveny & Myers, and served as a pro bono attorney for Public Counsel Law Center and Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California.Since joining Gould, Sim has also served as a committee and data working group member of the Law School Admission Council, and as an officer for the Post-Graduate Legal Education Section of the Association of American Law Schools.Sim earned her AB from Stanford University and JD from Harvard Law School.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/michael-simkovic-2020.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Michael Simkovic',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Leon Benwell Professor of Law, and Professor of Law and Accounting',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/michael-simkovic\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Michael Simkovic\u2019s research focuses on the intersection between law and finance, with a particular emphasis on credit markets, financial regulation, and taxation. His work has been published in leading journals including The University of Chicago Law Review, The Journal of Corporate Finance\u00a0and the Journal of Legal Studies.In 2015, he received the American Law Institute\u2019s Young Scholars Medal and became an elected member of the American Law Institute. For four years in a row, he was voted among the most influential in legal education by National Jurist Magazine. He was the recipient of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Award in 2012. Simkovic has testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and has served as an expert on consumer and corporate finance issues.Prior to joining the USC Gould faculty, Simkovic worked as an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, specializing in legal, regulatory and business issues affecting financial services companies.He is a frequent contributor to Brian Leiter\u2019s Law School Reports and has published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Dealbook, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg. His work has been cited by federal regulators and in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and USA Today. He has appeared on CBS and Marketplace Weekend.Simkovic has presented his research at the American Law & Economics Association Conference, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the National Tax Association, and at Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, New York University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, Duke University, Northwestern University, University of Virginia, UCLA, and USC.Simkovic earned his JD at Harvard Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow in law and economics.Download high-resolution photo',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-556');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-90');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-25');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-33');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/2021-DanSimon-crop.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Dan Simon',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Richard L. and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Law and Psychology',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/dan-simon\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Dan Simon specializes in the field of Law & Psychology. He teaches Criminal Law, as well as various courses in the intersection of law and psychology. He also teaches courses on Law and Psychology and on Wrongful Convictions at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.Simon is the author of In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process, published by Harvard University Press in 2012. The book has been translated into Korean, Chinese and Japanese, and it earned the Annual Book Award from the American Psychology-Law Society in 2015. Following the publication of In Doubt, Simon has lectured on the psychological dimensions of the criminal justice process to judges, prosecutors and police personnel across the United States, and in Israel, Mexico and Korea.Simon is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Lashing Out: The Psychology of Carceral State (under contract with Oxford University Press).Simon\u2019s publications in legal-psychological crossover journals include: \u201cThe Adversarial Mindset\u201d (Psychology, Public Policy & Law, 2020, with co-authors) and \u201cOn Juror Decision Making: An Empathic Inquiry\u201d (Annual Review of Law & Social Sciences, 2019). His publications in law reviews include: \u201cThe Limited Diagnosticity of Criminal Trials\u201d (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011); \u201cA Third View of the Black Box: Cognitive Coherence in Legal Decision Making\u201d (The University of Chicago Law Review, 2004), and \u201cA Psychological Model of Judicial Decision Making\u201d (Rutgers Law Journal, 1988). His publications in experimental psychological journals include: \u201cThe elasticity of preferences\u201d (Psychological Science, 2016, with co-author); \u201cThe coherence effect: Blending cold and hot cognitions\u201d (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015, with co-authors); \u201cThe Construction of Preferences by Constraint Satisfaction\u201d (Psychological Science, 2004, with co-authors), \u201cThe Redux of cognitive consistency theories: Evidence judgments by constraint satisfaction\u201d (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004, with co-authors), and \u201cBidirectional Reasoning in Decision Making by Constraint Satisfaction\u201d (Journal of Experimental Psychology\u2014General, 1999, with Keith J. Holyoak). Most recently, he published \u201cTowards a General Framework of Biased Reasoning\u201d (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2024, with Stephen Read).Simon has served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He also served for six years on the Human Factors Committee of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) project of developing standards and guidelines for reforming the forensic sciences (2014 \u2013 2020).Simon earned an SJD degree from Harvard Law School, an MBA from INSEAD in Fontaineblau, France, and an LLB from Tel Aviv University. He worked as an attorney for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel as a human rights lawyer on the West Bank. Before joining the USC Gould School of Law in 1999, Simon was a member of the faculty of the University of Haifa Law School. He serves as an ad hoc referee for various academic presses, peer reviewed journals in experimental psychology, and national science foundations.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Simon, Larry.JPG',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Larry Simon',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Herbert W. Armstrong Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/larry-simon\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Larry Simon joined the USC Law faculty in 1975. Specializing in constitutional law and theory, he taught Constitutional Law, Legal Profession and Insurance.Simon is the author of \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s Independence: Accountability, Majoritarianism, and Justification; Comments on Seidman\u201d (Symposium: Judicial Election, Selection, and Accountability, Southern California Law Review, 1988), \u201cThe New Republicanism: Generosity of Spirit in Search of Something to Say\u201d (William and Mary Law Review, 1987) and \u201cAccess to Higher Education and the Law\u201d in Access Policy and Procedures and the Law in U.S. Higher Education (Interbook, Inc., 1978).A summa cum laude graduate of Hobart College, Simon earned his LLB from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. His graduate study was at University of Rochester. Simon clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld, U.S. District Judge, Southern District, New York, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Supreme Court. He taught at Yale Law School, where he was associate dean from 1970-75, prior to joining USC Gould.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-14');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Mehdi Sinaki 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Mehdi Sinaki',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/mehdi-sinaki\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Mehdi Sinaki is an attorney based in the Los Angeles office of Michelman & Robinson, LLP. Specializing in corporate and commercial transactions, Mehdi\u2019s expertise spans a variety of sectors, including real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, media, technology and entertainment. His proficiency in understanding the unique motivations and risk profiles of his clients has positioned him as a trusted business and legal advisor.In his role, Mehdi structures and negotiates complex deals, providing general counsel advisory services, and overseeing corporate transactions. His expertise extends to managing mergers and acquisitions, conducting purchases and sales of commercial properties, and facilitating various leasing transactions.Beyond his legal practice, Mehdi contributes to the academic sphere as an Adjunct Professor at USC Gould School of Law. There, he teaches courses on Contract Drafting, Analysis, and Negotiations, as well as Real Estate Contracts. He is authoring two forthcoming books:\u00a0Navigating Commercial Real Estate Transactions: A Practical Guide, and\u00a0Corporate Transactional Law: A Practical Guide, set to be released in 2027 and 2029 respectively.Mehdi has been recognized repeatedly as a \u201cLeader in Law\u201d by the Los Angeles Business Journal. His insights into the legal field have further been showcased through several articles he has authored for Law360. 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Later he formed the legal partnership of Helmer \u2022 Smith, which represented individual and business clients in various civil rights, intellectual property, personal injury and business matters with a particular focus on litigating employment disputes. He has experience litigating in both state and federal court, and has resolved scores of cases via trial, arbitration and mediation, including a $1.9 million judgment in an age discrimination suit upheld by the California Supreme Court.Smith is a proud distinguished fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. He has received mediation training on both coasts \u2014 including Pepperdine\u2019s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution on the West and Linda Singer and Michael Lewis on the East. 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He is experienced in expert witness testimony regarding computer systems, damage calculations, loss of earnings and professional malpractice cases. Stern provides consultation to CPA firms regarding valuations, mergers and acquisitions. He is also experienced in auditing and accounting involving various types of manufacturing, distribution and professional service clients as well as real estate operations and acquisitions.Stern is the recipient of the 1991 and 2009 Instructor Excellence Award from the California CPA Education Foundation. He is the author and instructor of numerous California CPA Education Foundation\u2019s courses including \u201cHow to Buy and Sell CPA Practices,\u201d \u201cExcel for CPAs,\u201d \u201cLegal and Financial Aspects of Restructuring and Liquidation,\u201d \u201cStopping Fraud in Your Business,\u201d \u201cFinding and Evaluating Frauds: A Case Study Approach,\u201d and \u201cAdvanced Fraud Case Study.\u201d He is also the author and editor for the Harcourt Brace book, CPAs Complete Billing and Collection Handbook and an editor of the Managing and Accounting Practice Guide published by the AICPA. Stern has lectured nationwide speaking on various topics to more than 10,000 fellow CPAs in 20 states.Stern is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees for the California CPA Education Foundation. He has also served on many committees and task forces for the California Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Education Foundation.Stern previously served as the chairman of Partners in Care Foundation as well as previously serving as the chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a former member of the executive committee and past treasurer for Temple Adat Elohim. He is currently serving as the chairman of California Center for Public Health Advocacy as well as the former treasurer. Stern is also currently the treasurer for the LAFD Foundation, a group that supports the local fire departments.Stern received his master\u2019s degree from the University of Southern California\u2019s Marshall School of Business and his bachelor of general studies from the University of Michigan.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Paul-Stern1.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Paul G. Stern',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/stern-paul-g\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Paul G. Stern is currently senior litigation counsel at the United States Attorney\u2019s office for the Central District of California, where he specializes in the prosecution of white collar crime, including securities fraud, health care fraud and corporate fraud, and he also assists in the training and advising of younger prosecutors in the office. Stern has been a federal prosecutor for over 21 years and has been a member of the Major Frauds Section of the United States Attorney\u2019s office since February 1998. He has tried several significant white collar cases against major law firms in Los Angeles and elsewhere and has successfully completed criminal trials against a number of chief executive officers of publicly traded companies.Prior to joining the United States Attorney\u2019s office in Los Angeles, Stern was an associate for 3 years at a white collar litigation boutique law firm, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert & Matz, where he worked on a variety of civil and criminal matters and internal corporate investigations. After graduating from the Yale Law School in May 1990, Stern clerked for the Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, a distinguished Judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.Before attending law school, Stern earned a PhD in Philosophy at Boston University, and he also served as an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University from 1984-87 teaching courses in ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. 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He recently authored briefs in significant cases at the California Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court that have helped to shape the state\u2019s wage-and-hour laws, including Troester v. Starbucks Corporation (amicus counsel) and Kim v. Reins International California, Inc. Stiller also serves as Senior Counsel at Kingsley & Kingsley, where he represents employees in all aspects of workplace disputes and manages the firm\u2019s appellate practice.Before Kingsley & Kingsley, he practiced on the motions and appeals team at a prominent Los Angeles defense firm and served as a judicial fellow to Judge Paul Watford on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Stiller graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA from Colorado College in 2006 and received his JD from University of Colorado School of Law in 2013, where he was an associate editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and class president.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['S'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Seth Stodder',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/stodder-seth\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'S',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Seth Stodder is a lawyer, writer, and frequent commentator on national security issues, foreign policy, borders and immigration, international trade, privacy, cybersecurity, and constitutional law. Until recently, he served in the Obama Administration as assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Border, Immigration & Trade Policy and, prior to that, as assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Threat Prevention & Security Policy.In those roles, Stodder led teams advising White House and DHS leadership and developing policy on border security, immigration and visa policy, trade, screening and vetting of individuals for national security purposes, law enforcement matters, cybersecurity and surveillance issues, and the negotiation of international information sharing agreements aimed at interdicting the movement of foreign terrorist fighters through global transportation systems.During his tenure as assistant secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration, Stodder was particularly focused on the threat presented by ISIS, Al Qaeda and homegrown extremists, particularly in the wake of the 2015-2016 wave of attacks in Europe and the United States. During this high-threat period, Stodder oversaw the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, led DHS policy regarding vetting and screening of people and cargo moving through global transportation systems, represented DHS on the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), and served as Co-Chair of the DHS Task Force on the use of social media for vetting purposes, consistent with privacy rights and civil liberties, stood up in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. He was also particularly focused on the Syrian refugee crisis, the flow of thousands of Syrians and other migrants and asylum seekers into the European Union, and the humanitarian and security challenges this ongoing crisis continues to present to Europe and the United States, as the Syrian Civil War and the conflict with ISIS deepens. As assistant secretary for Border, Immigration & Trade Policy, Stodder also led DHS policy regarding the substantial migration of Central Americans fleeing violence and extreme poverty to seek humanitarian protection in the United States \u2013 and the challenges this issue continues to present to the security of the U.S.-Mexico border, and the functioning of our overtaxed immigration system. He also oversaw all DHS international engagements with the countries of the Western Hemisphere, as well as other countries around the world, leading negotiations and bilateral discussions with various countries, including Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Germany, and the Five Eyes countries, among others.Earlier in his career, he served in the George W. Bush Administration as director of Policy and Planning for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and counselor\/senior policy advisor to Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, in the immediate wake of the 9\/11 attacks. In between tours of government service, Stodder has practiced constitutional law at major law firms, and led a homeland security consulting firm. He is a member of the Truman National Security Project, served as a German Marshall Memorial Fellow, and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He received his JD from the USC Gould School of Law, and his BA from Haverford College. 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He has taught semester-length courses on general real estate and on leasing, has been a frequent writer and speaker on matters of interest to business groups, trade associations, professional schools, bar associations and environmental organizations across the country, including for the ABA, California Bar Association, and Los Angeles County Bar Association.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['T'] = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['T'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/portal\/directory\/photos\/Leana Taing 350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Leana S. Taing',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/taing-leana-s\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'T',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Taing is a deputy county counsel for the Los Angeles County Office of Counsel. In 2017, Taing contributed to dependency case law in California on the issue of language access through In re J.P., 14 Cal. App. 5th 616 (2017). The appellate court reversed the trial court\u2019s decision and quoted the arguments made by Taing as trial counsel in its published decision. The case ensures that parents have the right to meaningful language access in the disposition of their dependency cases.In addition, Taing teaches Legal Writing as a Lecturer in Law for USC Gould School of Law. She earned her JD from UCLA School of Law. She specialized in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law & Policy Program. Taing earned her B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley.Taing is an executive officer of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) and the WLALA Foundation. She is a past president of the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance (APAWLA) and continues to serve on its board of governors. Taing serves on the American Bar Association\u2019s (ABA) Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline as the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) liaison.Taing is a recipient of the 2024 ABA \u201cOn the Rise\u201d \u2013 Top 40 Young Lawyers Award, a prestigious national honor in recognition of exceptional achievement, innovation, vision, leadership and commitment to both legal and community service. She is also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.Taing is the first in her family to go to law school and become an attorney. Her family fled the Cambodian genocide and started anew in Stockton, California. Their experiences compelled her to become a public interest attorney and dedicate herself to public service. As a part of her legal journey, Taing assisted the Office of the Co-Prosecutor in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to prosecute Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity and genocide. She interned for the United Nations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a part of the international team and was the only international member with Cambodian heritage.',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['T'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Shawn Thomas',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/thomas-shawn\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'T',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['T'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: '\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shield_RegUse_Card_RGB-e1689801525916.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: '',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Seema Tilak',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/lecturer\/profile\/tilak-seema\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Lecturer in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'T',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: '',\n\t\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat = [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-24');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthisCat.push('cat-27');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talphaProfessors['T'].push( {\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260518_gsl_dean_franita_tolson_csflynn_20260518_4122_350x500.jpg',\n\t\t\t\t\tthumb_alt: 'Dean Franita Tolson',\n\t\t\t\t\tname: 'Franita Tolson',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/franita-tolson\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'T',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Franita Tolson is Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Political Science and International Relations Department at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.Her research has appeared in leading law reviews including the Yale Law Journal,\u00a0Harvard Law Review,\u00a0Stanford Law Review,\u00a0California Law Review,\u00a0University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and\u00a0Vanderbilt Law Review. Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook,\u00a0The Law of Democracy (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2022). Her forthcoming book,\u00a0In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, will be published by Cambridge University Press.As a nationally recognized expert in election law, Tolson has written for or appeared as a commentator for various mass media outlets including\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0The Los Angeles Times, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0and\u00a0Bloomberg Law. She has testified before Congress numerous times on voting rights issues. She has also authored a legal analysis for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Richard Durbin, that would explicitly protect the right to vote. In addition, Tolson worked as an election law analyst for CNN in 2020 and NBC in 2024. She currently co-hosts an election themed podcast, Free and Fair with Franita and Foley, with Ned Foley of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.At USC Gould, Tolson had previously served as the interim dean (since 2023) and held the George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law. Before that, she was the law school\u2019s vice dean for faculty and academic affairs from 2019 to 2022.Prior to joining USC, Tolson was the Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights at Florida State University College of Law and a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Before entering academia, she clerked for the Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Honorable Ruben Castillo of the Northern District of Illinois.Tolson is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where she was the Walter V. 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A trusted advisor to some of the world\u2019s largest car companies, Tuma regularly advises their corporate strategy teams, helping them navigate regulatory compliance, policy, and geopolitical issues impacting the automotive industry and her clients\u2019 global operations.As an 18-year veteran of the firm and leader of the firm\u2019s Automotive Industry Group, she brings a cross-practice, multidisciplinary perspective to every matter. Tuma frequently leverages the firm\u2019s global network of legal professionals to deliver effective and efficient solutions tailored to her clients\u2019 needs. She is also frequently called upon to identify critical resources and develop tailored solutions to meet automotive companies\u2019 evolving needs. 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Vranca also handled business development\/strategy, production legal, and risk assessment for Bunim\/Murray and its various shows as well as structure and negotiate overall\/pod, international distribution, format, co-production, production services and network licensing deals.Prior to Bunim\/Murray, Vranca served as the Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for All3Media America (which includes various production companies such as Maverick TV, Studio Lambert, Zoo Productions) where she supervised, negotiated and drafted all deals related to the development, production, and distribution of documentary film, television, and digital media projects.Vranca has also practiced law at the prestigious talent law firm, Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller (\u201cHJTHNWRRK\u201d) in Beverly Hills where she represented top-tier talent (writers, directors, actors and producers) as well as major, medium and start-up production companies in connection with all business & legal affairs matters. She joined HJTHNWRRK following a career as a business affairs executive for Yari Film Group and Paradigm Talent Agency.Vranca is active in the entertainment industry as a member of the TV Academy, an Advisory Board for the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel, a co-editor for UCLA Entertainment Symposium, and a planning committee member for USC\/BHBA Institute on Entertainment Law and Business. She is a frequent speaker on industry panels and universities. 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He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Adrian J. Duplantier, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in 1978-1979.Webster practiced with the bankruptcy law firm Stutman, Treister & Glatt Professional Corporation from 1979 until it closed its doors in 2014. Thereafter he practiced until 2018 with Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, now known as Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.Webster is the author of \u201cCollateral Control Decisions in Chapter Cases-Clear Rules v. 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She thereafter joined a noted international think tank, where she focused on the international environmental, energy, trade and business arenas.Webster clerked in the United States District Court, after receiving her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and JD from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, upon her admission to the California Bar. She clerked as well in the High Court of England and Wales. She subsequently served in the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office, in the Major Crimes Division and latterly in the Environmental Crimes Division. Webster further is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.A public speaker and author, Webster enjoys teaching, writing and guest speaking regarding public policy and government, real estate, international and cultural property law and associated topics, in both the public and private sectors. 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Following his education in England and France, he was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and was awarded both the Queen\u2019s Silver Jubilee Scholarship and a Duke of Edinburgh Prize by his Inn. He began his career by serving as marshal (law clerk) to Sir Joseph Donaldson Cantley, O.B.E. \u2013 one of England\u2019s most celebrated High Court judges.He teaches business organizations, contracts, gifts, wills and trusts and contract drafting, analysis and negotiations.Webster has combined practice with an academic career that began at London\u2019s Inns of Court School of Law (now The City Law School) where he pioneered the school\u2019s international outreach and was responsible for the introduction of specialist skills-training programs for aspirant barristers in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. 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Wood',\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle: 'George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law, and Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy',\n\t\t\t\t\tlink: 'https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/faculty\/profile\/abby-k-wood\/',\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: 'Faculty',\n\t\t\t\t\tcategories: thisCat,\n\t\t\t\t\tletter: 'W',\n\t\t\t\t\tbiography: 'Abby Wood\u2019s research is at the intersection of law and politics. Wood uses quantitative analysis\u00a0to examine the causal effects of institutional changes on human behavior. Her current projects analyze what voters learn from campaign finance disclosures, whether transparency can affect donor decision-making, and patterns in congressional oversight of agency activity. Recent projects examine the Freedom of Information Act and agency politicization, regulating false political speech on social media and the effects of Citizens United v. FEC on political donors.Wood teaches administrative law, campaign finance and analytical methods for lawyers. 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