Simona Grossi

JD, L.U.I.S.S. University, Rome, Italy
LLM, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
JSD, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
 
 
 

"I think there is a profound and enduring beauty 
in simplicity, in clarity, in efficiency. 
True simplicity is derived from so much more than 
just the absence of clutter and ornamentations. 
It's about bringing order to complexity."
-- Jonathan Ive

Background

Professor Grossi graduated from L.U.I.S.S. University, Rome, Italy in 2002. She completed her master's degree (LL.M.) and doctoral program (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley, School of Law. She worked for the U.N. from 2000 to 2002 and then went into private practice and worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo doing national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the USDC for the Northern District of California in 2010.  Professor Grossi joined Loyola Law School L.A. in 2010.  She was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2011. She is also a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, transnational litigation and harmonization of procedural law. 

Selected Scholarship

• "Forum Non Conveniens as a Jurisdictional Doctrine," 75 U. Pitt. L. Rev. __ (2014).
• "Personal Jurisdiction: A Doctrinal Labyrinth With No Exit," 47 Akron L. Rev. __ (2014). 
• "A Modified Theory of the Law of Federal Courts: The Case of Arising Under Jurisdiction," 88 Wash. L. Rev. __ (2013).
• "The Purposeful Availment Trap," (with Allan Ides), Federal Court Law Review, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2013).
• "Federal Courts" (with Allan Ides), West Academic Publishing, forthcoming.
• "The U.S. Supreme Court and the Modern Common Law Approach to the Decision Making Process," Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• "Rethinking The Harmonization of Jurisdictional Law," 86 Tul. L. Rev. 623 (2012)