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NE W S FROM THE CENTERS U.S. Trust Co. Provides Vital Support to Pa c i fic Center Initiatives Franklin E. Ulf With the latest in a series of gifts to support the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, a Los Angeles investment management company is facilitating interd i s c i p l i n a ry collaboration in re s e a rch and teaching at USC and the implementation of community outre a c h p rograms that serve the medical and legal professions and the general public. O ver the past three years, U.S. Trust Co. has provided more than $210,000 in funding to the Pa c i fic Center, supporting projects such as the HEAL (Humanities, Economics, Art and the Law) Curriculum, which aims to increase medical students’ awareness of ethical issues in the field, as well as providing core support for the Pa c i fic Center that is re flected in all of its activi t i e s . “The Pa c i fic Center is a worthwhile entity to be invo l ved with, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to support its efforts,” says Franklin E. Ul f, chairman of West Coast offic e s of U.S. Trust. The U.S. Trust Corp., which is headquart e red in New Yo rk City, provides inve s t- ment management, banking and fid u c i a ry services nationwide to both families and institutional clients. Among the clients of the Los Angeles office is Qu e e n s C a re, a nonpro fit health care organization valued at about $300 million and created primarily by the 1998 sale of Qu e e n of Angels/Hollywood Pre s byterian Medical Center. M r. Ulf has been closely invo l ved with Qu e e n s C a re’s mission to provide health care serv i c e s to minority and disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles, and he recently became chair of the Los Angeles Health Care Alliance, which is supported by Qu e e n s C a re and other foundations. In addition, U.S. Trust commits a portion of its annual Qu e e n s C a re fees to community s e rvice projects. In conjunction with Qu e e n s C a re’s board, chaired by USC law graduate J.J. Brandlin ’38, Mr. Ulf has directed those funds to the Pa c i fic Center for the past three ye a r s . “We are ve ry grateful for U.S. Tru s t’s support, which is vital to the Pa c i fic Center because it enables us to respond quickly to new developments and then to obtain pro j e c t - s p e c i fic funds,” says Un i versity Professor of Law and Medicine Alexander Capron, who co-directs the center with Dr. David Goldstein, a professor and chief of general internal medicine at USC’s Ke c k School of Medicine. A number of the Pa c i fic Center’s programs complement Qu e e n s C a re’s mission. For example, after California adopted the Health Care Decisions Act (Assembly Bill 891) in 1999, information about the changes in the law affecting a person’s right to make medical decisions — including the right to forgo life-sustaining treatment — needed to be communicated to patients. The Pa c i fic Center took a lead role in revising a federally mandated bro c h u re that explains patients’ rights under California law — a publication that the Pa c i fic Center had helped p re p a re in 1991. With funding from a separate Qu e e n s C a re grant, the Pacific Center also will translate the bro c h u re into nine languages and develop educational programs that addre s s the needs of patients from a range of ethnic groups for appropriate end-of-life care . The Pacific Center was created a decade ago by USC’s schools of law and medicine to p romote interd i s c i p l i n a ry collaboration in re s e a rch and teaching about the ethical and legal aspects of health care and re s e a rch and to help educate the professions and the general public on related policy questions. Recent programs have included an international symposium on science, ethics and society, re s e a rch on genetic discrimination in insurance and how ethnicity affects patients’ advance health care dire c t i ves, and an interd i s c i p l i n a ry faculty symposium series at USC. 5 0 USCLAW s p r i n g 2001
NE W S FROM THE CENTERS Erwin Chemerinsky USC and Caltech L a u n ch New Law and Politics Center Professor Chemerinsky Replaces Dean Spitzer as CCLP Director The USC Law School has launched another interd i s c i p l i n a ry re s e a rch project to sponsor serious academic inquiry into the intersections of law, politics and popular opinion. The USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics was established last fall with a thre e - year grant from USC’s provo s t’s office and funds from the California Institute of Te c h n o l o g y. Composed of scholars from the Law School, USC’s departments of political science and economics, and Caltech’s Division of Humanities and Social Science, the center is directed by Ed Mc C a f f e ry, the Maurice Jones, Jr. Professor of Law at USC. R. Michael Alva rez, a professor of political science at Caltech, is assistant dire c t o r. The center plans to sponsor primary empirical re s e a rch and quantitative analyses of political and legal processes, particularly re s e a rch that relies on innova t i ve methods of data collection, such as Web-based surveying. Among the working papers spons o red by the center are “Is T h e re a Gender Gap in Fiscal Political Pre f e re n c e s ? ” , c owritten by Professors Alva rez and Mc C a f f e ry, and “The Likely Consequences of Internet Voting for Political Re p resentation,” cowritten by Professor Alva rez and Jonathan Na g l e r, a professor of political science at New Yo rk Un i ve r s i t y. The center’s first public conference, Counting the Votes and Making Vo t e s Count, will be held April 27 and 28 at USC. Sessions will focus on ballot re f o r m issues and the 2000 presidential election; presentations will be published in a fort h- coming book. Scheduled speakers include Ann Cr i g l e r, a political science pro f e s s o r at USC and director of the Un ruh Institute, USC law professors Erw i n Chemerinsky and Susan Estrich, and Pamela Karlan, professor of public interest law at St a n f o rd Un i ve r s i t y. For information, contact Professor Mc C a f f e ry at (213) 740-2567. Erwin Chemerinsky, the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public In t e rest Law, Legal Ethics and Political Science at USC Law School, was named director of the USC Center for Communications Law and Policy (CCLP) last summer. He replaces Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t ze r, who is now dean of the Law School. Professor Chemerinsky is a nationally re c o g n i zed expert on constitutional law and civil rights and has written extensively about communications law issues. He is a lecturer at the Fe d e r a l Judicial Center, the National Judicial College, the Center for Civic Education and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. CCLP supports academic inquiry into questions of domestic and international communications law and policy. Its areas of focus include exploring the relationship between re g u l a t o ry s t ru c t u re and content; spectrum, technology and broadband access issues; the concentration of media control; effects on society of violence and sex on television; the nexus of privacy issues and First Amendment rights; and the effects of communications technologies on society and business. The center sponsors a speakers series, visiting faculty, conferences and symposia. Last ye a r, CCLP extended fellowships to William “Te r ry” Fi s h e r, a Ha rva rd Law School p rofessor; Anita Allen-Castellito, a professor of law at the Un i versity of Pe n n s y l vania; and Neil Netanel, the Arnold, White and Du rkee Centennial Professor of Law at the Un i ve r s i t y of Te x a s . CC LP Conference Studies Artists’ Rights in Digital Age As new digital technologies change the way that artistic work s and entertainment are made, distributed and sold, they are radically reshaping the political economy of cre a t i v i t y. At stake: a rt i s t s’ control over their own works, established commerc i a l s t ru c t u re, principles of copyright law and the public’s right to access and use cre a t i ve works. L a w yers, artists, filmmakers and scholars gathered to explore these issues at an interd i s c i p l i n a ry conference sponsored by the USC Center for Communications Law and Po l i c y, the No r m a n Lear Center, the Art i s t s’ Rights Foundation and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, Law School and School of Fine Arts. The conference, “A rtists, Technology and the Ownership of Cre a t i ve Content” was held Ma rch 31, 2001, at the Annenberg School. Speakers included David Bollier, senior fellow of the No r m a n Lear Center; Sara Diamond of the Banff Centre; Professor Ja y Do u g h e rty of Loyola Law School; Professor Jane Ginsburg of Columbia Un i versity School of Law; and Arnold Lu t z k e r, a p a rtner with Lutzker & Lu t z k e r. Panelists included John Pe r ry Ba r l ow, a fellow of the Ha rva rd Law School Be rkman Center for Internet and Society and former lyricist with the Grateful De a d ; Ja r red Jussim, exe c u t i ve vice president at Sony Pi c t u re s En t e rtainment; the Honorable Ed Damich of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; and Ha rold Vogel, CEO of Vogel Capital En t e rtainment. USCLAW s p r i n g 2001 5 1
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