Simona Grossi‘s scholarship focuses on civil procedure, constitutional law, and federal courts. She published three articles this year: one exposing misconceptions in the Supreme Court’s §1983 jurisprudence, and two companion pieces in the UC Law Constitutional Quarterly on procedural due process and the First Amendment in equal protection and affirmative action. She is now working on an article on the “First Amendment and Executive Power,” proposing a framework to guide courts in addressing executive actions that violate First Amendment rights, and on “Constitutional Conflict Resolution,” a piece proposing a framework to balance competing constitutional powers and rights.
Grossi’s casebook “Federal Courts: A Litigation-Oriented Approach,” co-authored with Allan Ides, is to be published by West Academic in June 2026 and is now available for order. This adds to her growing list of publications, including casebooks on civil procedure and constitutional law (Aspen), a book on the Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press), and two forthcoming casebooks — one on §1983 and one on constitutional law.
A member of the ALI since 2011 and of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL), she chaired the Civil Procedure Section of the AALS in 2015 and represented the United States at the World Congress on Procedural Law in Lima, Peru, in 2023. Her work is regularly featured at national and international conferences, including the National Civil Justice Institute, the National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, and Sorbonne University in Paris.
Grossi graduated from LUISS University in Rome, Italy, and completed her LL.M. and J.S.D. at UC Berkeley School of Law. She served at the U.N. from 2000 to 2002, then practiced at Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, handling national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. In 2010, she worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, before joining LMU Loyola Law School that same year.
Grossi is also a fiction writer, pianist, conductor, and music director of the LLS Orchestra — an ensemble of about 100 members including Loyola students and alumni, which she founded in 2020.