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The University of Southern California Law School (Gould School of Law ), located in Los Angeles, California. is a graduate school within the University of Southern California. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States. USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1904. [ 5 ] It currently has about 600 J.D. students (200 per year), and also has a growing LL.M. program of about 90 students. The Law School 100, a ranking scheme that purports to use qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school fourteenth overall, tied with Duke. UCLA. and the University of Texas. [ 6 ] The U.S. News World Report list of "America's Best Graduate Schools" ranks USC Law School at number eighteen.

USC Law School had its beginnings in 1896 when Judge David C. Morrison opened his courtroom for 36 law apprentices, among them was future California Supreme Court Justice, Frederick W. Houser and his wife Sara Isabella Wilde, who later formed the Los Angeles Law Students Association, to discuss the concept of a formal law school. [ 8 ] Their efforts resulted in the incorporation of the Los Angeles Law School in 1898. [ 9 ] In 1900, the program became affiliated with the University of Southern California and the first law degree was awarded in 1901 to Gavin W. Craig. [ 10 ] Over the next several decades, USC Law rose to become one of the most prominent national law schools, priding itself on an interdisciplinary form of study.

As of 2007, the law school continues to build upon its tradition of interdisciplinary training with the addition of the Center in Law and Philosophy, Center in Law, Economics and Organization, and the Center in Law, History and Culture. The school also strives to offer its students practical experience through its clinics, which include the Post-Conviction Justice Project, Children's Legal Issues Clinic, and the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic.