Media Relations

The USC Law public relations office is available to help members of the news media find faculty experts and other information about USC Law. For assistance, please contact the director of media relations:

Matthew Spitzer

Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Law and Social Science at California Institute of Technology

Specialization: Media law specialist

Areas of Expertise:

• law and economics, federal broadcasting law, torts, telecommunications policy, cable television rates, broadcast media law, content control in broadcasting, Internet and new media law, administrative law

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Elizabeth Garrett

Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy

Specialization: Law expert specializing in California politics, national elections, the federal budget, initiatives and voting and campaign finance. Can comment on President Bush's approval ratings.

Areas of Expertise:

• California politics, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California budget issues, California's role in national politics, voter activism, presidential elections (George W. Bush and John Kerry), elections, referendums and initiatives, term limits, recall elections, ballot issues, voter-driven laws and legislation, petitions and petition drives, city council procedures, local government legal issues, local governments, campaign finance, McCain-Feingold Bill (campaign finance reform, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act), Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules, law and politics, congressional legislative process, political parties, budget process, Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, administrative law,

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Alexander Capron

University Professor, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, and Professor of Law and Medicine

Specialization:

Areas of Expertise:

• bioethics, health care policy, genetic screening and counseling, ethical and legal aspects, medical, ethical, legal and economic issues in the care of seriously ill patients, definition of death, allocation of scarce medical resources, ethical and policy issues in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, cloning of human beings, protection of research subjects, relationship between law and medicine, patients' rights, reproductive technology, including surgery, access to healthcare, medical malpractice and liability, organ transplantation, torts

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