Professor Anne Bloom, Professor of Law
Professor Bloom is broadly trained in both law and politics. She holds both a J.D. and a PhD. in political science. From 1988-2001, she practiced as a public interest lawyer in Washington, D.C., working first as a lobbyist, and then, for nearly ten years, as a litigator. As a lobbyist, Professor Bloom helped to draft several pieces of legislation and testified regularly before Congressional committees. As a litigator, she handled a diverse docket of precedent-setting cases, including an extensive appellate practice. Many of these cases led to important changes in the law.
Although Professor Bloom now teaches full-time, she remains active in the national public interest legal arena and is a senior policy advisor for Public Citizen, a national public interest organization, based in Washington, D.C. Professor also speaks frequently at conferences on litigation and public policy related issues.
Public Law & Policy classes: Legislation, Law and Politics, Seminar on Public Interest Law, Complex Civil Litigation.
Recent publications: Professor Bloom has written several articles on litigation and public policy that have been published in law reviews, books, and interdisciplinary journals on the legal profession. Her most recent work examines how disabilities are viewed in tort litigation and appears in the Washington Law Review.