Dr. Camille Rich

Biography

Camille Gear Rich joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in the fall of 2007 after five years in private practice. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, feminist legal theory, family law, and children's law. Rich is the founder and director of PRYSM, the USC Initiative on the Study of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Law, and has held various academic positions including visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Yale Law School. Prior to her academic career, she clerked for judges in the Southern District of New York and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Rich has focused her pro bono work on issues involving Title VII retaliation and the rights of prisoners, for which she received the Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Award. In addition to her teaching and research, she served as an Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and has led initiatives to enhance diversity within the university community. Rich graduated with honors from Brown University and earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Her recent contributions to legal scholarship and discourse have addressed complexities surrounding race, gender, class, and identity in contemporary legal contexts.

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