Jody David Armour

Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law

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jarmour@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2559
Fax: (213) 740-5502
Room: 432

Professor Armour is an expert in criminal defense and prosecution, racial profiling, personal injury claims and sexual predator cases. He teaches Torts, Enterprise Liability, Stereotypes and Law, and a seminar on Prejudice and the Rule of Law.

 

Professor Armour’s scholarly writings include "Just Deserts: Narrative, Perspective, Choice, and Blame” (University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 1996), “Toward a Tort-Based Theory of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Racial Justice” (Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, spring 2005), and Negrophobia & Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press, 1997).

 

Before joining USC Law in 1997, Professor Armour practiced law in San Francisco and Pittsburgh. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University and the University of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Harvard University and earned his law degree at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, where he was editor of the Black Law Journal. Professor Armour is a regular legal analyst on KABC News and a sought-after legal expert on a variety of criminal law issues. He also has commented extensively on such high-profile trials as Michael Jackson and Robert Blake.

Works in Progress

• Where Bias Lives: Adjudicating Just Deserts

Books

• Negrophobia & Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press, 1997).

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Toward a Tort-Based Theory of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Racial Justice." 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1467 (Spring 2005). - (Hein)
• "Interpretive Construction, Systemic Consistency, and Criterial Norms in Tort Law." 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1157 (2001). - (Hein)
• "Bring the Noise." 40 Boston College Law Review 733 (May 1999). - (Hein)
• "Color-Consciousness in the Courtroom." 28 Southwestern University Law Review 281 (1999). - (Hein)
• "Critical Race Feminism: Old Wine in a New Bottle or New Legal Genre?" 7 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 431 (1998). - (Hein)
• "Hype and Reality in Affirmative Action (Affirmative Action: Diversity of Opinions)." 68 University of Colorado Law Review 1173 (1997). - (Hein)
• "Just Deserts: Narrative, Perspective, Choice, and Blame (Self-Defense and Relations of Domination: Moral and Legal Perspectives on Battered Women Who Kill)." 57 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 525 (1996 - (Hein)
• "Stereotypes and Prejudice: Helping Legal Decisionmakers Break the Prejudice Habit." 83 California Law Review 733 (1995). [Reprinted in Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (Gregory S. Park et al, eds.) (New Press, 2008).] - (Hein)
• "Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes." 46 Stanford Law Review 781 (1994). [Reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds.) (Temple University Press, 2000).] - (Hein)

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