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18<br />

Feature<br />

Magazine<br />

Spring / Summer 2006<br />

Rigorous scholarship and a collegial environment<br />

create recipe for innovation at <strong>USC</strong> <strong>Law</strong><br />

curve<br />

Ahead <strong>of</strong> the<br />

By Rizza Barnes<br />

For <strong>USC</strong> <strong>Law</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dan Simon, there is no<br />

place like home — at least when it comes to<br />

faculty workshops.<br />

Simon was among several <strong>USC</strong> <strong>Law</strong> faculty<br />

members this spring who were given the<br />

opportunity to present a paper to their peers<br />

for early feedback. A majority <strong>of</strong> the law<br />

school faculty attended the workshop, along<br />

with pr<strong>of</strong>essors and graduate students from<br />

other parts <strong>of</strong> the university.<br />

“The sheer mass <strong>of</strong> knowledge and wisdom<br />

that pass through the room semester by semester<br />

is just remarkable,” says Simon, an expert in<br />

law and psychology. “People ask really smart,<br />

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan

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