Anne Bloom

Anne Bloom is the founding Executive Director of the Civil Justice Research Initiative.  Previously, she served as the Director of Public Programs for Equal Justice Works in Washington, D.C., Associate Director of the Civil Justice Program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at McGeorge Law School, and Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College.  Before becoming a professor, she practiced public interest law for nearly 13 years with Public Justice, Public Citizen and the law firm then known as Bernabei & Katz in Washington, D.C. Bloom’s scholarship explores the relationship between law and social change, with a particular focus on the politics of injury litigation. Her publications have appeared in peer review journals such as the Annual Review of Law & Social Science, as well as in several law reviews and peer-edited collections. She is also the co-editor of two books: Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress (Cambridge 2018) and Research Handbook on Civil Justice (Elgar 2025).  

Bloom is a graduate of the University of Washington, where she received her Ph.D. (Political Science), the University of Maryland School of Law, and Mount St. Mary’s University, where she received her B.A.  She has been a Fellow with the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law and a Visiting Professor at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles and New York Law School.  Bloom is a member of the Maryland bar and is admitted to practice before the Third and Fifth Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Anne Bloom is teaching the following courses in Spring 2026:

• 221.77 sec. 001 - Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
• 294.55 sec. 001 - Litigating Class Actions

Courses During Other Semesters