Simona Grossi
Associate Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8140
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail:simona.grossi@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
J.D., L.U.I.S.S. University, Rome, Italy
LL.M., UC Berkeley, School of Law
J.S.D., UC Berkeley School of Law
Simona Grossi graduated from L.U.I.S.S. University, Rome, Italy in 2002. 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 completed her master degree (LL.M.) and doctor program (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley, School of Law, where she put particular emphasis on civil procedure and transnational litigation. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the USDC for the Northern District of California in 2010 and taught as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University in 2009 and 2010. Prof. Grossi joined Loyola Law School L.A. in 2010. Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, transnational litigation and harmonization of procedural law.
"Harmonizing Common and Civil Law: Standards of Decision in Comparative Perspective," Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
"Rethinking The Harmonization of Jurisdictional Law," 86 Tul. L. Rev., forthcoming 2012.
"A Comparative Analysis Between Italian Civil Proceedings and American Civil Proceedings Before Federal Courts," 20 Ind. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 213.
Commentary to the Italian Code of Civil Procedure, Oxford University Press, February 2010;
Transnational Litigation. A Practitioner's Guide. Italy, Oxford University Press, February 2010.
Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure II: Practice and Procedure, Comparative Civil Procedure, Comparative Law