Faculty Scholarship

USC Law faculty is committed to scholarship, publishing articles in a variety of journals and reviews. Faculty members also present their work at conferences and symposiums and serve on panel discussions and at workshops. Below is a list of their endeavors.

June 2013

Publications

• Elizabeth Garrett
  “Campaign Finance in the Hybrid Realm of Recall Elections,” 97 Minn. L. Rev. 1654 (2013)
• Ariela Gross
  “The Caucasian Cloak: Mexican Americans and The Politics of Whiteness in The Twentieth Century Southwest,” was reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (3rd ed.)
• Edward Kleinbard
  “Through a Latte, Darkly: Starbucks’ Window into Stateless Income Tax Planning,” Tax Notes (2013)
• Donald Scotten
  “Poison Pills as Tools for Protecting Minority Shareholders: A Critical Study of Comparative Law (Brazil and the United States),” Revista Síntese de Direito Empresarial (Síntese's business law journal) (with Nikolai Sosa Rebelo and Matheus Martins, LLM ’13) (2013)
• Karen Skinner
  Karen Skinner and Cindy Guyer, "Seven Tips for a Successful Flip!" AALL Spectrum (June 2013)

Acceptances

• Sofia Gruskin
  “Realigning Government Action with Public Health Evidence: The Legal and Policy Environment Affecting Sex Work and HIV,” Culture, Health and Sexuality, in press, 2013 (G. Williams and L. Ferguson)
• Gregory Keating
  “Strict Liability Wrongs,” in Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts, Oxford University Press

Working Papers

• Anthony M. Bertelli
  “Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time: A Method and Examples Using Large-Scale Federal Surveys,” posted to SSRN and BePress (with Dyana P. Mason, Jennifer M. Connolly, and David A. Gastwirth)

Presentations/Lectures/Workshops

• Jonathan Barnett
  “Copyright: Year in Review”, Los Angeles Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, Las Vegas
• Edward Finegan
  "Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, and the Expert Witness," plenary address, International Association of Forensic Linguists 11th biennial meeting, Mexico City
• Ronald Garet
  “To Secure the Blessings,” Annual Law and Religion Roundtable, Stanford Law School
• Gillian Hadfield
  "Scaffolding: Using Formal Contracts to Build Informal Relations in Support of Innovation," Tilburg University, Netherlands
• Edward Kleinbard
  Ed Kleinbard testified before the House Ways And Means Committee on international corporate tax avoidance.
• Daniel Klerman
  Dan Klerman and Alex Lee, “Inferences from Litigated Cases,” Southern California Empirical Legal Studies workshop, USC Law School
• Nancy Staudt
  "Sham Transactions in the United States," ISNIE Conference, Florence, Italy
• Nomi Stolzenberg
  "Divine Accommodation and Freedom of the Church: A Different Political Theology," Religion Roundtable, Stanford Law School

Other

• Jonathan Barnett
  Antitrust Panel, Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Jonathan Barnett
  Jonathan Barnett was awarded a Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship by the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University School of Law.
• Judy Davis
  Judy Davis was elected to serve on the Board of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries.
• Edward Finegan
  Ed Finegan became president of the International Association of Forensic Linguists at the association's 11th biennial meeting in Mexico City this month.
• Ariela Gross
  Ariela Gross, Chair of the Hurst Prize Committee, presented the Hurst Prize for the Best Book in Sociolegal History at the Law and Society Association Annual Luncheon in Boston.
• Ariela Gross
  

  Ariela Gross participated in an Author Meets Reader Roundtable on Tanya Hernandez, Racial Subordination in Latin America, at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Boston.

• Ariela Gross
  Ariela Gross was a co-convener of the Columbia, Georgetown, UCLA and USC Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop at Georgetown Law Center.
• Sofia Gruskin
  Sofia Gruskin was appointed to the Steering Committee of the World Health Organization and Partners’ Technical Consultation—Ensuring and Monitoring Rights, Equity and Quality in Family Planning Programmes.
• Sofia Gruskin
  Sofia Gruskin was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Guttmacher Institute.
• Gillian Hadfield
  Gillian Hadfield participated in a meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics in Florence, Italy.
• Gillian Hadfield
  Gillian Hadfield chaired a session on Courts, Judges and Lawyers at the ISNIE conference in Florence.
• Gillian Hadfield
  Gillian Hadfield’s paper, "Legal Barriers to Innovation", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for ERPN: State (Sub-Topic).
• Gillian Hadfield
  Gillian Hadfield’s paper, "Democracy, Courts and the Information Order,” was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list four eJournals/Topics.
• Gillian Hadfield
  Gillian Hadfield participated in a meeting of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law in The Hague.
• Daniel Klerman
  Dan Klerman’s paper, “Reading, Writing, and Questions in Advance: Teaching English Legal History” was (again) listed as an SSRN Top 10 download for the Legal Education eJournal.
• Paul Moorman
  Paul Moorman is currently serving as President of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries with a term of office from June 2013-June 2014.
• Nancy Staudt
  Nancy Staudt received a Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant for "Pathways to Health Care Reform" (with Dana Goldman).
• Nancy Staudt
  Nancy Staudt received a USC Faculty Collaboration Grant for the SCELS group (with Dan Klerman and Jeb Barnes).
• Nancy Staudt
  Nancy Staudt organized a Master Class for Faculty on "Network Analysis" for the SCELS group.
• Nomi Stolzenberg
  Nomi Stolzenberg co-convened the annual Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop at Georgetown Law School.