Professor Simona Grossi is a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law during the 2024 spring semester. Professor Grossi graduated from LUISS University, Rome, Italy in 2002. She completed her master's degree (LL.M.) and doctoral program (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley, School of Law. She worked for the U.N. from 2000 to 2002 and then went into private practice and worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo doing national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the USDC for the Northern District of California in 2010. Professor Grossi joined LMU Loyola Law School in 2010. She was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2011, and she is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, constitutional law, and federal courts. Professor Grossi is also a fiction writer, a pianist, a conductor, and the Music Director of the LLS Orchestra, an orchestra of about 100 members, professionals and highly talented musicians, which she founded in 2020.

Fore more on Professor Grossi, please view her Loyola Law School biography.