Associate Professor of Law,
Director of the Information Privacy Law Certificate Program
B.S., summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
Scott Bloomberg joined the University of Maine School of Law as an associate professor in August 2020. His research and writing focus on the areas of Cannabis Law, Privacy Law and the First Amendment Speech Clause, and Constitutional Law more generally. Professor Bloomberg is also the Director of Maine Law’s Information Privacy Law Certificate Program.
Professor Bloomberg teaches Information Privacy Law, Cannabis Law, Constitutional Law, and First Amendment. In recognition of his teaching, he received the Professor of the Year Award in 2022.
Before joining Maine Law, Professor Bloomberg was an attorney at Foley Hoag in Boston, where he maintained a diverse practice focusing on privacy law and cannabis law. Prior to this, he clerked at both the federal district and circuit court levels, including here in Portland for Judge Kermit Lipez. He previously taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Professor Bloomberg earned his B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School.
Re/Descheduling Marijuana Through Administrative Action, 76 Oklahoma L. REV. 517. (2024) [PDF]
Political Advertising in Virtual Reality, 21 First AMEND. L. REV. 167 (2023). [PDF]
Interstate Commerce in Marijuana Through Considered Legislative Judgment, in Regulating Cannabis Interstate Commerce: Perspectives on How the Federal Government Should Respond, OSU MORTIZ COL. OF LAW DRUG ENF. & POL. CTR. (2022). [SSRN]
Legalization Without Disruption: Why Congress Should Let States Restrict Interstate Commerce in Marijuana, 49 PEPP. L. REV. 839 (2022) [PDF]
Frenemy Federalism, 56 U. RICH. L. REV. 367 (2022) [PDF]
Reform Through Resignation: Why Chief Justice Roberts Should Resign (in 2023), 106 IOWA L. REV. ONLINE 16 (2021) [PDF]
The Development and Future of Privacy Law in Maine, 73 ME. L. REV. 216 (2021) [PDF]
Democracy, Deference, and Compromise: Understanding and Reforming Campaign Finance Jurisprudence, 53 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 895 (2020) [PDF]
Contracting Around Citizens United: A Systemic Solution, 66 SYRACUSE L. REV. 301 (2016)
B.S., summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
