ANNE BLOOM. University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law 3200 Fifth Avenue Sacramento, CA Academic Positions

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1 ANNE BLOOM University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law 3200 Fifth Avenue Sacramento, CA Academic Positions Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, 2012 present. Professor of Law, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, 2004 present. Courses: Torts, Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Remedies, Jurisprudence, Law & Politics, Legislation, Public Interest Law Seminar. Senior Fellow, Columbia University, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Spring Visiting Professor, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, Winter Course: Transnational Tort Litigation. Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Courses: Torts, Civil Procedure, California Civil Procedure, Advanced Torts. Visiting Professor of Law, New York Law School, Fall Courses: Torts, Civil Procedure. Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College, (on leave ). Courses: Constitutional Law, Introduction to American Politics, Lawyers in American Politics, Law & Society Other Significant Employment Staff Attorney, Public Justice (public interest law), Litigated and managed precedent-setting cases in a variety of areas, including civil rights, consumer, and class action law. Extensive Appellate practice. Associate, Bernabei & Katz, Litigated precedent-setting civil rights and whistle-blower cases, including a month-long civil rights trial. 1

2 Staff Attorney, Public Citizen (public interest law), Lobbied members of Congress, drafted legislation, and testified before congressional committees. Peace Corps Volunteer (Nepal), Worked in the field as a fisheries extension agent, organized literacy and income generating projects for women, edited a women s development newsletter, and represented Nepal at regional women s development conference. Education and Awards University of Washington, Ph.D., 2001 (Political Science) (Subfields: Public Law, Political Theory, American Politics). Advisors: Michael W. McCann, Stuart A. Scheingold and Peter May. Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship, J. Allen Smith Fellowship, Center for Labor Studies Research Grants. University of Maryland Law School, J.D., cum laude, Course prizes for Law and Economics and Law in Western Culture. Research Assistant for Professors Clinton Bamberger, David Luban and Peter Quint. Mount St. Mary s University, B.A. summa cum laude, 1983 (Political Science). Flanagan Prize (for scholarship, leadership and character). Selected Publications Plastic Injuries, HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW (2013)(forthcoming). Crash and the Legal Hereafter, OPPOSITIONAL CONVERSATIONS, Special Issue: After Catastrophe (2013)(forthcoming). The Radiating Effects of Torts, 62 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 229 (2013)(invited submission for the Clifford symposium, honoring the work of Marc Galanter). Speaking Truth to Biopower, 41 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 241 (2012) (symposium). Book Review: The Measure of Injury, 61 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 232 (2012), with Julie Davies. Blindsight: How We See Disabilities in Tort Litigation, 86 WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 709 (2011)(with input from Paul Steven Miller). Zen and the Art of Tort Litigation, 44 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 11 (2011) (symposium). To Be Real: Sexual Identity Politics in Tort Litigation, 88 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 357 (2010) (lead article). 2

3 Regulating Middlesex, in FAULTLINES: TORT LAW AS CULTURAL PRACTICE (David Engel & Michael McCann, eds., 2009) (book chapter). Practice Style and Legal Mobilization, 71 LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 1 (2008) (symposium). From Justice to Global Peace: A (Brief) Genealogy of the Class Action Crisis, 39 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 719 (2006) (symposium). Milking the Cash Cow and Other Stories: Transnational Workers Rights Litigation in the Media, 30 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 179 (2006) (lead article). Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Regulation of Sex in the Breast Implants Controversy, 14 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND THE LAW 85 (2005). The Post-Attitudinal Moment : Judicial Policy Making Through the Lens of New Institutionalism, 35 LAW & SOC Y REV. (2001) (long book review). 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 (Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold, eds. 2001) (book chapter). Discrimination and the Law, in Encyclopedia OF FEMINIST THEORY (2000). Patricia Williams, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FEMINIST THEORY (2000). Transgressive Cause Lawyering, 5 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION (1998), with Stuart Scheingold. Works in Progress: Pragmatic Realism and International Disability Rights (working title) (uses the analytical principles of pragmatic realism to rethink how we approach disability rights in the international context). Injury as Cultural Practice (with David Engel) (an edited collection of essays on injuries in comparative cultural context). Law and Third Sex Identity in Nepal and Northern India (working title) (empirical project exploring the impact of Nepal s recognition of a third gender on sex identity). Law, Culture and Tattoos (working title) (with others) (a collaborative book-length exploration of law, culture and tattoo practices). 3

4 Selected Presentations, Panels and Conferences Co-Organizer (with David Engel), Injury as Cultural Practice (a two day symposium on injuries in comparative perspective), Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento. March 2014 (forthcoming). Pragmatic Realism and International Disability Rights, International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Amsterdam. July Pragmatic Realism and the Conceptualization of International Disability Rights, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston. May/June Plastic Injuries, Law Culture & the Humanities Conference, London. March Plastic Injuries, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu. June The Radiating Effects of Torts, 18 th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago. April 2012 Blindsight: How We See Disabilities in Tort Litigation, Chapman Law School, Orange, CA. October Speaking Truth to BioPower, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. May Life in Plastic: Law, Medicine & Aesthetics, Columbia Law School, New York. April Reframing Tort Litigation: Redefining Plaintiffs with Disabilities, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. January Co-Organizer (with John Nockleby), and Presenter, Injuries without Remedies (a two day symposium on tort law and culture), Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. March To Be Real: Sexual Identity in U.S. Tort Law, Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Toronto. January To Be Real: Sexual Identity in U.S. Tort Law, Northern Kentucky Chase School of Law, November Ethical Issues in Mass Tort Litigation, AAJ Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA. July The Regulation of Sexual Identity in Tort Law, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany. July Regulating Middlesex, The Cultural Foundations of Tort Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, April The Economics of Civil Justice, Loyola Law School, September Judicial Policy-Making in Mass Torts and the Administrative State: A Case Study of the Agent Orange 4

5 Litigation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Regulation of Sex in the Breast Implants Controversy, University of Indiana Law School, February Cause Lawyering for Workers in a Transnational Context, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. May 30-June 1, New Developments in Class Action Litigation. Kansas Trial Lawyers Association Summer Meeting. Kalispell, Montana. June Migrant Employment Law: Remedies for Health and Safety Violations, National Legal Aid and Defender Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. November Public Interest Lawyering and the Trial Bar, Dallas Trial Lawyers Association. Dallas, Texas. November 2000 (keynote). Settlement Techniques, ABA National Institute on Class Actions. Chicago, Illinois. October Legal Mobilization in Transnational Context: Can Transnational Workers Rights Litigation Act as a Catalyst for Transnational Solidarity? American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. September Hegemonic Tales and Subversive Statistics: A Twenty-Year Study of News Reporting about Civil Litigation, with Judith Aks, William Haltom, and Michael W. McCann, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Miami, Florida. June Transnational Cause Lawyering, University of Montana Law School. Missoula, Montana. April Cause Lawyering for Workers in Transnational Context: A Case Study of the Alfaro Litigation, Workshop on International Cause Lawyering. Bellagio, Italy. July Can Transnational Rights Litigation Act as a Catalyst for Transnational Organizing? Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. June Cause Lawyering and the Globalization of Wages and Working Conditions. Workshop on Transnational Cause Lawyering, with Stuart Scheingold. Jerusalem, Israel. June Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation concerning seafood inspection. May 24, Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Research and Development concerning non-agricultural uses of pesticides. March 28, Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture on proposed amendments to federal pesticide laws. October 19,

6 Professional Service Wheeler Mentor Award Committee, Law and Society Association ( ). Article Prize Committee, Law and Society Association (2012). Public Justice, Class Action Preservation Project Education and Research Subcommittee ( ). Board of Advisors, VoteRiders ( ). Stand Up for Main Street Organizing Committee, Public Citizen (2013). Senior Policy Advisor, Public Citizen ( ). Advisor, Los Angeles Outreach, Public Justice ( ). Board Member, Coalition for Clean Air ( ). Program Committee, Law and Society Association ( ). Civil Justice Research and Education Project, Leadership Committee (2005). Summer Institute Committee, Law and Society Association ( ). 6