Anne Bloom
Visiting Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8109
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: anne.bloom@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, summa cum laude, Mount Saint Mary’s University
JD, cum laude, University of Maryland
PhD, Political Science, University of Washington
After graduating from law school, Anne Bloom worked as a staff attorney and lobbyist for Public Citizen, where she focused primarily on consumer and environmental issues. After that, she was a litigator at Bernabei & Katz in Washington, D.C, then moved to Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national public interest firm based in Washington, D.C., where she had an extensive complex litigation and appellate practice. After receiving her PhD from the University of Washington, Bloom became Associate Professor in the Politics Department of Occidental College in Los Angeles. She joined the faculty at the University of Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in 2004. Bloom has also been a visiting professor at New York Law School. At McGeorge, she teaches Torts, Legislation, Law and Politics, Complex Litigation, and a seminar in Public Interest Law. She has been actively engaged in many public service projects and has provided pro bono legal assistance to many individuals.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Visiting Scholar and Guest Lecturer, “To Be Real: Sexual Identity in U.S. Tort Law,” Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (January 2009)
Presenter, “The Regulation of Sexual Identity in Tort Law”; Chair/Discussant, “Transformations in the Legal Profession” Law and Society Annual Meeting (Berlin, July 2007)
Presenter, “The Regulation of Sexual Identity in Tort Law,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Baltimore, July 2006)
Presenter, “Regulating Middlesex,” The Cultural Foundations of Tort Law (University of Denver, April 2006)
Presenter, “The Economics of Civil Justice," Civil Justice Symposium (Loyola Law School, September 2005)
Presenter, “Judicial Policy-Making in Mass Torts and the Administrative State: A Case Study of the Agent Orange Litigation,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Las Vegas, June 2005)
Guest Lecturer, “Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Regulation of Sex in the Breast Implants Controversy,” Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington, IN, February 2005)
Presenter, “Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Regulation of Sex in the Breast Implants Controversy,” Law and Society Annual Meeting (Chicago, May 2004)
Presenter, National Jury Summit (Las Vegas, May 2005)
Board Member, Coalition for Clean Air (2005-present)
Advisor, Public Citizen (2007-present)
Regulating Middlesex, in Faultlines: The Cultural Foundations of Tort Law (David Engel & Michael McCann, eds.) (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2008)
Practice Style and Legal Mobilization, 71 Law and Contemporary Problems 2:1 (2008)
From Justice to Global Peace: A (Brief) Genealogy of the Class Action Crisis, 39 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 719 (2006) (contribution to Symposium, Access to Justice: The Economics of Civil Justice)
“Milking the Cash Cow” and Other Stories: Media Coverage of Transnational Workers’ Rights Litigation, 26 Vermont Law Review 179 (2006)
Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Body as a Site for the Enforcement and Reproduction of Sex-Based Legal Norms in the Breast Implant Controversy, 14 Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law 85 (2005)
The ‘Post-Attitudinal Moment”: Judicial Policy Making Through the Lens of New Institutionalism, book review of Malcolm M. Feeley & Edward L. Rubin, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America’s Prisons; and Lee Epstein & Jack Knight, The Choices Justices Make, 35 Law and Society Review 219 (2001)
Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon, 56 University of Miami Law Review 113 (2001) (with Michael McCann and William Haltom)
Taking on Goliath: Why Personal Injury Litigation May Represent the Future of Transnational Cause Lawyering, in Cause Lawyering and the State in the Global Era (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure II: Practice and Procedure, Torts II