USC Law Blogs - Blawgs
Blogs By Law Professors For Law Professors
Law Professor Blogs is a network of web logs ("blogs") designed from the ground-up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines both (1) regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and (2) daily news and information of interest to law professors. Our faculty are leading scholars and lawyers who are committed to providing the web destination for law professors in their fields.
Elyn Saks - The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks, training to be a psychoanalyst, specializes in mental health law, criminal law, and children and the law. Her recent research focused on ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of the mentally ill. She teaches Mental Health Law, Mental Health Law and the Criminal Justice System, and Advanced Family Law: The Rights and Interests of Children. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Law at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. In her capacity as associate dean, Dean Saks oversees research and grants at USC Law. View Elyn Saks's Blog
David Cruz - CruzLines.org
Professor David Cruz is a constitutional law expert focusing on civil rights and equality issues, including equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. He specializes in discrimination law and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. He teaches Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II; Federal Courts; Sexual Orientation and the Law; International / Comparative Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation; Identity Categories; and Law, Identity, and Culture.
Professor Cruz graduated from the University of California, Irvine and earned his master's degree from Stanford University. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of New York University Law Review.
View David Cruz's Blog: CruzLines.org
Mary Dudziak - The Legal History Blog
Mary L. Dudziak is a legal historian whose research focuses on international approaches to legal history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on civil rights policy during the Cold War and other topics in 20th-century American legal history. Professor Dudziak teaches Constitutional Law, Procedure, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Politics in Africa, the Constitution in the 20th Century, Law and War in the 20th Century, and a seminar on Law and Social Change in Post-War America. She is currently a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. View Mary Dudziak's Blog | View Book News and Reviews for Exporting American Dreams
