Elizabeth Garrett is the vice president for academic planning and budget and is the second ranking officer in the Office of the Provost. She is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy. Her primary faculty appointment is in the Gould School of Law, and she has joint appointments with the College and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development as well as a courtesy appointment with the Annenberg School for Communication. She previously served as the vice provost of academic affairs.
As vice president for academic planning and budget, she is responsible for ensuring that budgetary planning is fully informed by USC’s strategic plan and by the academic priorities and initiatives that have resulted from it. She works closely with the provost on budget issues for individual schools, as well as allocations for the central administration budget. She also helps to set the academic objectives for graduate and undergraduate education at the university; to foster meaningful interdisciplinary educational and research programs; and to cultivate and enhance the vibrant academic community at USC. Among other provost initiatives, she helped to establish the USC U.S.-China Institute; she has worked to recruit leading interdisciplinary scholars as Provost Professors; and she has worked with colleagues on the expansion of Ph.D. fellowships. She has been involved in the integration of the new hospitals and the faculty practice plans into the university, which has created an academic medical center on the Health Sciences Campus. She also sits on the Governing Board of the USC Hospitals.
In addition to her role in the Provost's Office, Garrett is the co-director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (CSLP). In August 2009, she was appointed as one of five commissioners on the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state’s independent political oversight agency. In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed her to serve on the nine-member bipartisan Tax Reform Panel. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC, which joined the CSLP in January 2004. Her primary scholarly interests are legislative process, direct democracy, the federal budget process, study of democratic institutions, statutory interpretation, administrative law, and tax policy. She is the co-author of the Fourth Edition of the leading casebook on legislation and statutory interpretation, Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (West Publishing 2007). She is co-editor of Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Cambridge University Press 2008). She is the author of many articles and book chapters analyzing budget policy, campaign finance laws, courts and political parties, various congressional procedures, judicial review of regulatory statutes, the initiative process, and the California recall. She teaches a course in the Gould School of Law and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development on the Law of the Political Process, and she leads a microseminar for incoming freshman, focusing on “Hybrid Democracy.”
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, and she served as legal counsel and legislative director for Senator David L. Boren (D-Okla.). She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a fellow of the American Law Institute, a member of the Pacific Council for International Policy, and a member of the editorial board of the Election Law Journal.
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