Nomi M. Stolzenberg joined the USC Law faculty in 1988. Her research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, cultural pluralism, law and liberalism, and law and literature. A strong proponent of multidisciplinary research and teaching, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, which involves scholars and students from throughout USC’s campus.

Professor Stolzenberg’s scholarly publications are widely respected. Among them are the frequently cited “He Drew a Circle that Shut Me Out’: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education” (Harvard Law Review, 1993); “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” (Harvard Law Review, 1998); “The Property of Culture,” (Daedalus, fall 2000) and “The Profanity of Law” (in Law and the Sacred, Stanford University Press). She is currently at work on a book about the Satmar community of Kiryas Joel with David Myers, which explores the conundrum of an anti-secular, anti-modern, anti-liberal religious community flourishing in a modern liberal secular state.

A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Stolzenberg was an editor on the Harvard Law Review and clerked for Judge John J. Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, prior to joining USC Law. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities and Phi Beta Kappa, and she sits on the editorial boards of Theory and Research in Education and the newly launched Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Professor Stolzenberg teaches Property; Law, Language, and Ethics; Law and Literature; and seminars on a variety of interdisciplinary topics. Most recently, she has begun teaching Family Law.

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