Frederic Bloom
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Office: 404
Phone: (303) 492-3860
E-mail: Frederic.Bloom@Colorado.EDU
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Personal Link:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=392422
Educational Background: | |||
J.D. | Stanford Law School | 2002 | Order of the Coif |
B.A. | Washington University in St. Louis | 1997 | summa cum laude |
Frederic Bloom joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2012. Professor Bloom received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he graduated Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Honorable Sidney Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Professor Bloom's scholarship concentrates on issues of structure, method, and design in modern federal courts. He teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Federal Courts, and related courses.
Articles
Character Flaws Character Flaws, 89 U. COLO. L. REV. 1101 (2018). |
The Law's Clock, 104 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (2015). |
Countersupermajoritarianism, 113 Michigan Law Review 809 (2015) (with Nelson Tebbe). |
Suing Courts, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 553 (2012) (with Chris Serkin). |
Information Lost and Found, 100 California Law Review 635 (2012). |
Jurisdiction's Noble Lie, 61 Stanford Law Review 971 (2009). |
State Courts Unbound, 93 Cornell Law Review 501 (2008). |
Unconstitutional Courses, 86 Washington University Law Review 1679 (2005). |
Symposia, Invited Essays, and Short Articles
Cooper's Quiet Demise, 53 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1115 (2008) (symposium). |
Courses:
Fall 2025 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-802 |
Fall 2025 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Spring 2025 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Spring 2025 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-801 |
Fall 2024 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-803 |
Spring 2024 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Spring 2024 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-801 |
Fall 2023 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-803 |
Spring 2023 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Spring 2023 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-801 |
Fall 2022 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-804 |
Spring 2022 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Fall 2021 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-804 |
Spring 2021 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Fall 2020 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-802 |
Spring 2020 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-801 |
Spring 2020 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-801 |
Fall 2018 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-801 |
Fall 2018 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-802 |
Spring 2018 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-001 |
Spring 2018 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Fall 2017 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-801 |
Spring 2017 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-001 |
Spring 2017 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Fall 2016 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-801 |
Spring 2016 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-001 |
Spring 2016 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Fall 2015 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-801 |
Fall 2015 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-805 |
Spring 2015 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-002 |
Spring 2015 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Fall 2014 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-802 |
Fall 2013 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-802 |
Fall 2013 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Spring 2013 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-001 |
Spring 2013 | Federal Courts | LAWS 7003-001 |
Fall 2012 | Civil Procedure | LAWS 5303-804 |
Our Vision
With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.