Olu Orange, civil rights lawyer and director of the USC mock trial program, won the reinstatement of an $8 million damages verdict to the family of a Black man killed by sheriff’s deputies.
Students gain important career experience working on a high-profile case involving suspended driver licenses.
The USC Gould project offers law students the opportunity to help small businesses that are unclear about evolving health and safety guidelines.
The groups aim to help incoming students build a sense of community within themselves as well as with faculty.
Allen, Celia and Charles all received life sentences for crimes they committed as teens and spent 84 years combined in prison. Through their dedication and the project’s advocacy, they are now free.
The law professor makes a forceful case for change with regard to mass incarceration and systemic racism.
Lindsay Harrison’s work helped to overturn the Trump administration’s dissolution of DACA and aided the legal battle against the order prohibiting international students from remaining in the country.
The committed educator and influential author passed away June 28.
A USC military law professor notes that regulations give members little ability to disobey lawful orders on the grounds of conscience.
While many advocates are celebrating the Supreme Court’s opinion on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, USC experts warn that additional legal challenges are likely.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are so ingrained in the American consciousness, writes USC Annenberg’s Joe Saltzman, we may have been lulled into thinking acts of intimidation against reporters couldn’t happen on American soil.
USC Gould’s Winter Break Pro Bono Project gives students the opportunity to tackle hands-on legal work while getting involved in community efforts.
Through the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Trojans fight for justice for people who are marginalized, the gravely ill and those with nowhere else to turn. The association was launched at the USC Gould School of Law in 1929.
From opposing human trafficking to upholding refugee rights, the International Human Rights Clinic has spent nearly a decade pushing to preserve the rule of law.
A lecturer at USC Gould and founder of the Center for Law and Military Policy explains why the military often pursues justice for bad behavior while cops do not.
A decade after the USC Saks Institute’s Student Scholars program began, students and alumni reminisce on how it has advanced an understanding of mental health.
Drawing on 30 years of experience, Richard Erhard teaches law students at USC Gould how to mediate complaints with teachers, administrators and parents.
The Jurist-in-Residence program offers students unique insight into the perspectives of judges from outside Southern California.
Thanks to USC Gould’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, game designers can learn how to factor copyright and fair use laws into their creative choices.
Clinton and Gerard Tibuck — who had been separated since 2015 — spent Thanksgiving together after a USC law student helped Clinton win asylum.
The director of USC Gould’s Small Business Clinic addresses many of the major questions he hears from individuals looking to get their businesses off the ground.
Through a family’s personal history, a USC law expert uncovers the complex history of Puerto Rico and the United States.
USC’s Jeb Barnes notes that asbestos wasn’t just a construction material: Manufacturers found ways to add the material to everything from hair driers to car parts and children’s modeling clay.
Undergrads with an eye on careers in law get a head start by taking USC Dornsife’s advanced course in legal writing.