Faculty Scholarship
Our faculty consists of outstanding teachers and scholars
in virtually every major field of law. They enjoy national
reputations in many areas, including administrative
law, children’s advocacy, civil rights, commercial law,
constitutional law, criminal law, international and
comparative law, professional ethics, public interest law,
tax law, and interdisciplinary studies, including law and
economics, and law and philosophy.
Faculty members
author leading casebooks and treatises, scholarly monographs
published by the finest university presses, and
influential articles in the nation’s leading law reviews.
Taken as a collective whole, the law faculty at the University
of San Diego is an extremely important contributor to legal
debates and controversies, whether in the pages of law journals
and books, the opinion sections of newspapers, or through lectures
and colloquia at law schools and myriad professional organizations. In 2000, the Institute for Law and Philosophy, a program to
advance knowledge on legal topics of philosophical significance,
was established at USD. The Institute regularly holds roundtables,
conferences, and public lectures and debates that draw as participants
some of the most distinguished scholars in the world.
Faculty members come from diverse personal, professional
and academic backgrounds, and include numerous former judicial
clerks, practitioners from the private and public sectors, and
both sitting and former judges. Ten faculty members belong to
the prestigious law reform group, the American Law Institute.
In a recent survey, the USD law faculty was among the
highest-rated law faculties in the nation, with a ranking of 22nd.
USD’s law faculty is listed among the top 20 law schools in the
nation in Constitutional Law and Criminal Law and Procedure, and
is among the top 10 law schools in the nation in Law and Philosophy.
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