Scott Bloomberg
Director of the Center for Law + Innovation
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 regularly 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.
Selected Publications
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]
Education
Current Courses
- Cannabis Law & Policy
- Constitutional Law
- First Amendment
- Information Privacy Law
Research Interests
- Campaign Finance Law
- Cannabis Law
- Constitutional Law
- Privacy Law
In the Media
- ‘Inevitable digital intrusion’ into Mainers’ privacy drives new push for constitutional amendment
- What does Maine’s ‘right to food’ amendment mean for ag? The courts will decide
- In Maine, a push to enumerate a constitutional right to food
- Maine must act to ensure mail-in ballots are fully counted in November
- Court ruling, referendum add haze to Portland’s recreational marijuana plans