Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Andrew T. Guzman is USC’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. He oversees the overall academic enterprise of the university, including 18 of the university’s professional schools and academic units, USC Museums, and the divisions of student life, libraries, student religious and spiritual life, and enrollment services. He is the first Latinx Provost to serve at USC.
Provost Guzman joined USC in 2015 to serve as dean of USC’s Gould School of Law. During the 2022-2023 academic year, he also served interim dean of USC Libraries. He began his role as Provost on July 1, 2023, and holds the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost’s Chair and is an esteemed Law and Political Science Professor.
A noted expert in international law and economics, Provost Guzman has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment, and public international law. His work has addressed his expertise in topics such as international tribunals, soft law, the safety of imported products, and climate change. He has authored and co-authored seven books, including the forthcoming Goldilocks Governance: Understanding International Soft Law, and dozens of articles and research works.
As dean of USC Gould Law School, Provost Guzman focused on strengthening the quality of the J.D., LL.M., and other programs through expanded academic offerings, growing the law school’s faculty expertise, and increased diversity and inclusion efforts. Under his leadership, the percentage of entering BIPOC students jumped from 36% in 2015 to 50% in fall 2022 Provost Guzman brought mental health counseling inside the law building, and took numerous measures, such as opening gender-neutral bathrooms, to create a welcoming and safe environment for all members of the LGBTQIA+ community at Gould. Ensuring USC is a safe, diverse, and equitable campus for all students, faculty, and staff remains a top priority in his role as Provost.
During his tenure, Provost Guzman oversaw a 61% increase in applications, a reduction in acceptance rate from 30% to 12%, and increases in both the median GPA and median LSAT of entering JD students. He broadened the impact of Gould’s teaching mission through undergraduate education, including the first-ever undergraduate major in Legal Studies, specialized master’s degrees, and innovative programs that continue to enrich the student experience at Gould.
Provost Guzman increased annual fundraising at Gould by over 40% and almost doubled total revenue to enhance the financial strength of the law school.
Prior to joining USC, Provost Guzman held the positions of Professor of Law and Associate Dean at UC (University of California) Berkeley, where he oversaw the International and Executive Legal Education Program. His career has also included roles as a visiting professor at numerous law schools in the U.S. and across the globe, including Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, the University of Hamburg, University of Toronto Law School, Catolica Law School in Lisbon, Portugal, and the National University Law School in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India.
Provost Guzman earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was the Books & Commentaries Editor for the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, he clerked on the First Circuit Court of Appeals for Chief Judge Juan Torruella. He is fluent in both French and Spanish.