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.

March 2013

Publications

• Tom Lyon
  

  “Child Witnesses and the Confrontation Clause,” Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (with J. Dente)

Acceptances

• Lee Epstein
  

  “An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research,” Oxford University Press, 2013 (in press), (with Andrew D. Martin)

• Alex Lee
  

  "An Options-Approach to Agency Rulemaking," Administrative Law Review

• Stephen M. Rich
  

  "A Matter of Principle: Statutory Interpretation, "New" Textualism, and Federal Employment Discrimination Law,” Southern California Law Review

• Nancy Staudt
  

  “The Supercharged IPO," Vanderbilt Law Review (with Victor Fleischer)

Working Papers

• Jonathan Barnett
  

  “Dynamic Analysis of Intellectual Property: Theory, Evidence and Policy,” posted to SSRN and BePress

• Edward Kleinbard
  

  “Corporate Capital and Labor Stuffing in the New Tax Rate Environment,” posted to SSRN and BePress

Presentations/Lectures/Workshops

• Lee Epstein
  

  Introduction of Andrew Martin as the new Charles Nagel Chair, Washington University

• Lee Epstein
  

  “The Supreme Court in the Aftermath of the 2012 Elections,” UCLA Extension, Beyond the Headlines series

• Lee Epstein
  

  “The Auditioners,” Loyola Law School-Los Angeles, Faculty Workshop

• Lee Epstein
  

  “Communicating Data and Results,” Keynote Speaker, Western Empirical Legal Studies, UCLA Law

• Ronald Garet
  

  “Extraordinarily called upon by the blessings which we have received,” Religious Legal Theory conference, Touro Law School, New York

• Hannah Garry
  

  "What Matters to Me and Why," USC

• Ariela Gross
  

  “Slaves, Free Blacks and Race in the Legal Regimes of Cuba, Louisiana and Virginia: A Comparison," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

• Ariela Gross
  

  "From the Streets to the Courts: The Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservatism," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

• Ariela Gross
  

  "Invisible Race," Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting, University of London

• Jack Lerner
  

  “Privacy’s Disruptive Moment: Challenges and Opportunities in an Age of Social Media,” 2013 Palo Alto Alumni Dinner

• Jack Lerner
  

  “Fair Use and Copyright’s Free Speech Conundrum,” Annenberg Research Seminar, USC Annenberg School of Communication

• Tom Lyon
  

  “Emotional and Motivational Influences on Young Children’s False Event Reports,” (with K. Cleveland and J.A. Quas), American Psychology and Law Society Conference, Portland

• Tom Lyon
  

  “Novel Methods for Inducing Honesty in Children: A Putative Confession,” (with J.A. Quas, E. Rush, A.D. Evans, & E.C. Ahern), American Psychology and Law Society Conference

• Tom Lyon
  

  “Discussions of Children's Prior Sexual Abuse Disclosures and Non-Disclosures in Court” (with S. Stolzenberg), American Psychology and Law Society Conference

• Rob Saltzman
  

  "Progress in an Unexpected Place where Diversity and Intransigence Collide: the LAPD," at the symposium on, "40 Years of LGBT Legal Activism--Taking Stock and Looking Ahead," Southwestern Law School

• Nancy Staudt
  

  “The Supercharged IPO," Tulane Tax Roundtable

• Nancy Staudt
  

  “Tax Planning and Penalties," USC Tax Conference

• Nomi Stolzenberg
  

  "Divine Accommodation and Dirty Hands," USC Law Faculty Workshop

Other

• Lee Epstein
  

  Lee Epstein is this year's winner of the Law & Courts Service Award, which honors service to the section and the profession. Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

• Lee Epstein
  

  Lee Epstein and Adam Liptak taught a mini-course on the Roberts Court at the University of Chicago Law School.

• Ronald Garet
  

  Ron Garet’s short paper, “Sadness and the Criminal Law,” was posted by The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender to its website as part of the Journal’s retrospective on Margaret Montoya’s article, “Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/Masking The Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories And Legal Discourse.”

• Ariela Gross
  

  Ariela Gross was a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

• Ariela Gross
  

  Ariela Gross was the discussant on the panel, “Racial Law/Racial Politics,” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting at the University of London.

• Edward Kleinbard
  

  Ed Kleinbard testified before the U.S. Senate's Budget Committee at a hearing titled, "Reducing the Deficit by Eliminating Wasteful Spending in the Tax Code.”

• Jack Lerner
  

  Jack Lerner served on a panel, “Big Data and Privacy,” at the Annenberg Innovation Summit at the USC Annenberg School of Communication

• Tom Lyon
  

  Tom Lyon received a $6,400 grant from the USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program for a research project, “Interviewing Allegedly Abused Children about Clothing.”

• Tom Lyon
  

  Tom Lyon received a $6,000 grant from the USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Education to improve the Child Interviewing Seminar.

• Heidi Rummel
  

  Heidi Rummel testified in favor of SB 260 in the California Senate Public Safety Committee.

• Nancy Staudt
  

  Nancy Staudt organized two SCELS meeting with interdisciplinary scholars around the USC campus to discuss collaborative projects.

• Nancy Staudt
  

  Nancy Staudt was interviewed by CNN for a piece about her class entitled: "Leadership for a Post-Partsian Age.”

• Nancy Staudt
  

  Nancy Staudt’s paper, "The Supercharged IPO," was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for six journals.

• Nancy Staudt
  

  Nancy Staudt organized a "Master Class" for SCELS participants on computerized textual analysis.