Elizabeth Garrett Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget

Elizabeth Garrett was appointed vice president for academic planning and budget in June 2006. She is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning and Development, and director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law.

President George W. Bush appointed her to serve on the nine-member bipartisan Tax Reform Panel in 2005. Her primary scholarly interests are in cross-disciplinary curriculum development, legislative process, direct democracy, the federal budget process, study of democratic institutions, statutory interpretation and tax policy.

She has joint appointments with USC College and the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and a courtesy appointment with the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

Before joining the faculty of USC, she was a professor of law at the University of Chicago, where she also served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, and she has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, Central European University in Budapest and the Interdisciplinary Center Law School in Israel. Before entering academics, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court.