Susan Estrich

Professor Estrich's scholarly interests are in law and politics, criminal law, and gender discrimination. At USC Law, she teaches Criminal Law, Gender Discrimination, and Election Law.

She has clerked for the late Honorable J. Skelly Wright, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and The Honorable John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was also special assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and staff counsel and special assistant to the chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She has been actively involved in Democratic presidential politics, serving as national campaign manager of the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign in 1988. She is a syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate, and has written for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. She is a frequent commentator on law and politics for FOX News, and an occasional talk radio show host. Her scholarly publications include Real Rape; Getting Away with Murder: Politics, Crime, and the Rule of Law; Dangerous Offenders (with Moore, McGillis, & Spellman); and "Sex at Work." Her most recent book is Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate.

Professor Estrich received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her J.D. from Harvard Law Schooll, where she was first woman President of the Harvard Law Review. She has also taught at Harvard Law in addition to her faculty position at USC Law.