Simona Grossi

Simona Grossi, Professor of Law, Theodore A. Bruinsma Fellow

Professor of Law
Theodore A. Bruinsma Fellow

Courses Taught

  • Federal Courts
  • California Civil Procedure
  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Class Actions and Mass Actions

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Education

  • JD, LUISS University, Rome, Italy
  • LLM, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
  • JSD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Background

Professor Grossi graduated from LUISS 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 LMU Loyola Law School in 2010. She was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2011, and she is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, constitutional law, and federal courts. Professor Grossi is also a fiction writer, a pianist, a conductor, and the Music Director of the LLS Orchestra, an orchestra of about 100 members, professionals and highly talented musicians, which she founded in 2020.

Articles

Books

  • Federal Courts: Cases & Problems. A Litigation-Oriented Approach, West Academic Publishing, forthcoming
  • Constitutional Law: Cases & Problems. A Litigation-Oriented Approach, forthcoming.
  • Civil Procedure: Cases & Problems (with Allan Ides & Christopher N. May), Aspen 2022, 6th ed., forthcoming.
  • Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism (with Allan Ides & Christopher N. May), Aspen 2022, 9th ed.
  • Constitutional Law: Individual Rights (with Allan Ides & Christopher N. May), Aspen 2022, 9th ed.
  • California Civil Procedure: Rules, Comments, Cases & Practices, forthcoming.
  • The US Supreme Court and the Modern Common Law Approach to the Decision Making Process, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Transnational Litigation: A practitioner’s Guide. Italy, Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Commentary To The Italian Code Of Civil Procedure,Oxford University Press, February 2010

 Essays

Membership

California Bar
Italian Bar
American Law Institute (ALI)
International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL)