Los Angeles, California
City: Los Angeles
Accreditation: ABA
Year: 1896
Website: http://lawweb.usc.edu/
USC Law School, formally known as the Gould School of Law, is located in Los Angeles, California within the private University of Southern California campus. Established in 1896, it is the oldest of the Southwestern United States law schools.
Degrees offered at the USC Law School include: Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Laws (LLM); Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA); Juris Doctor/Master of Business Taxation (JD/MBT); Juris Doctor/Master of Real Estate Development (JD/MRED); Juris Doctor/Doctor of Pharmacy (JD/PharmD) which is a collaboration with the USC School of Pharmacy; Juris Doctor/Doctor of Philosophy (JD/PhD) in Social Science which is a collaboration with the California Institute of Technology. Study-abroad programs are an option for JD students, who would like to spend a year at the London School of Economics or a semester at the University of Hong Kong.
Centers and clinics that are available for USC Law School students include: Center in Law, History and Culture; Center for the Study of Law and Politics; Children's Legal Issues Clinic; Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics; Post-Conviction Justice Project.
Laws should be constructed so as to leave as little as possible to the decision of those who judge. - Aristotle