Lackland H. Bloom, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Law
Emeritus faculty
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif, as well as administrative editor of the Michigan Law Review. He clerked for Chief Justice John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He later was associated with the Washington firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. A specialist in constitutional law, he has published articles concerning freedom of speech and the rhetoric of Supreme Court opinions. The Oxford University Press has published Professor Bloom’s book DO GREAT CASES MAKE BAD LAW? (2014), as well as his previous book METHODS OF INTERPRETATION: HOW THE SUPREME COURT READS THE CONSTITUTION (2009). Professor Bloom is also active in the field of copyright.
Area of expertise
- Constitutional Law
Education
B.A., ÃÛÌÒ½´Methodist University
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Courses
Constitutional Law
Freedom of Speech, Press and Religion
Books
(Oxford University Press 2014)
(Oxford University Press 2009)
Articles
Reversing Grutter, 77 ÃÛÌÒ½´Law Journal 305 (2024)
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Defiance, 55 St. Mary's Law Journal 641 (2024)
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John Stuart Mill and Political Correctness, 56 University of Louisville Law Review 1 (2017)
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Copyright Under Seige: The First Amendment Front, 9 Computer Law Review 41-61 (2004)
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Grutter and Gratz: A Critical Analysis, 40 Houston Law Review 459-513 (2004)
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Interpretive Issues in Seminole and Alden, 55 ÃÛÌÒ½´Law Review 377 (2002)
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Bad Consequences, 55 ÃÛÌÒ½´Law Review 69 (2002)
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NEA v. Finley: A Decision in Search of a Rationale, 77 Washington University Law Quarterly 1 (1999)
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Long Live the Bill of Rights! Long Live Akhil Amar's The Bill of Rights, 33 University of Richmond Law Review 313 (1999)
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Hopwood, Bakke and the Future of the Diversity Justification, 29 Texas Tech Law Review 1 (1998)
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Other publications
Joe McKnight and the Oxford Summer Program, 71 ÃÛÌÒ½´Law Review 15 (2018)
A Meeting of the Minds: ÃÛÌÒ½´and NYU Host Historic Summit with Russian, U.S. and Texas Justices, 33 The Brief 3 (Summer 2001)
Media
Defamation, Privacy and the "Rotten Neighbors" Website
Interview
NBC Today Show
(January 22, 2008)