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Bio

Kate Bloch is a Professor of Law and holds a Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair.Ìý Her scholarly interests include criminal law, procedure, and practice, the intersection of virtual reality and criminal justice, as well as legal ethics and education. She is a recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UC Law SF 1066 Foundation Faculty Award for scholarship. In 1997, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George appointed Professor Bloch to the Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions. As a member of its Criminal Instructions Subcommittee, she helped draft the CALCRIM instructions, which now serve as the official instructions for use in criminal trials throughout California. For over a decade, Professor Bloch has been working with colleagues in the U.S. and at UC Law SF’s partner law school, L’École Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie (ESCDROJ), to help ESCDROJ establish what is believed to be the only operating in-house law school legal aid clinic in Haiti. In 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti awarded paired grants to UC Law SF and ESCDROJ. These grants are designed to advance clinical legal education in Haiti, and Professor Bloch directs substantive implementation of the UC Law SF grant.

Professor Bloch received her undergraduate education at Washington ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ in St. Louis as an Arnold J. Lien merit scholar. Before departing Washington ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ, she completed an M.A. in French. During her student days in St. Louis, she was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa and played on an intramural inner tube water polo team. Once in California, Professor Bloch attended Stanford Law School, where she was a Senior Note Editor on the Stanford Law Review. Following graduation and the California Bar, Professor Bloch clerked as a Court Law Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In that role, she had the privilege of working with a number of judges, including The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Prior to joining the UC Law SF faculty, she represented the People of the State of California as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Santa Clara.

Selected Scholarship

Books

Criminal Law: A Contemporary Approach: Cases, Statutes, and ProblemsÌý(Aspen Publishers 2005) (with Kevin C. McMunigal).Ìý

Journal Articles

Untangling Right from Wrong in Insanity Law: of Dogs, Wolves, & God, 73ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý4 (2022).Ìý

Virtual Reality: Prospective Catalyst for Restorative Justice, 58ÌýAm. Crim. L. Rev.Ìý285 (2021).ÌýÌý

Harnessing Virtual Reality to Prevent Prosecutorial Misconduct, 32ÌýGeo. J. Legal EthicsÌý1 (2019).ÌýÌý

Human Rights from the Ground Up: Building the First Law School Legal Aid Clinic in Haiti, 20ÌýU. Pa. J.L. & Soc. ChangeÌý217 (2017) (with Roxane Edmond-Dimanche).Ìý

Bridging Rule of Law Theory and Implementation: The Role of Professional Ethical Integrity, 39ÌýHastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev.Ìý81 (2016).Ìý

Legal Indeterminacy in Insanity Cases: Clarifying Wrongfulness and Applying a Triadic Approach to Forensic Evaluations, 67ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý913 (2016) (with Jeffrey Gould).Ìý

The Rule of Law and Ethical Integrity: Does Haiti Need a Code of Legal Ethics?, 37ÌýU. Haw. L. Rev.Ìý1 (2015) (with Roxane Edmond-Dimanche).Ìý

Representation for the Accused: Haiti’s Thirst and a Role for Clinical Legal Education, 14ÌýOr. Rev. Int’l L.Ìý430 (2013).Ìý

Creating a Clearinghouse to Evaluate Environmental Risks to Fetal Development, 63ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý1571 (2012).ÌýÌý

Changing the Topography of Sentencing, 7ÌýHastings Race & Poverty L.J.Ìý185 (2010).Ìý

Mr. Pendleton’s Rainbows: On the Value of Teaching Abroad, 29ÌýPenn St. Int’l L. Rev.Ìý275 (2010).Ìý

Reconceptualizing Restorative Justice, 7ÌýHastings Race & Poverty L.J.Ìý201 (2010).Ìý

Cognition and Star Trek: Learning and Legal Education, 42ÌýJ. Marshall L. Rev.Ìý959 (2009).Ìý

Subjunctive Lawyering and Other Clinical Extern Paradigms, 3ÌýClinical L. Rev.Ìý259 (1997).Ìý

A Rape Law Pedagogy, 7ÌýYale J.L. & FeminismÌý307 (1995).Ìý

Fifth Amendment Compelled Statements: Modeling the Contours of Their Protected Scope, 72ÌýWash. U. L.Q.Ìý1603 (1994).Ìý

Police Officers Accused of Crime: Prosecutorial and Fifth Amendment Risks Posed by Police-Elicited “Use Immunized” Statements, 1992ÌýU. Ill. L. Rev.Ìý625 (1992).Ìý

Chapters In Books

Intellectual Treasure Hunts, inÌýTeaching the Law School CurriculumÌý163 (Steven I. Friedland & Gerald F. Hess eds., Carolina Academic Press 2004).Ìý

The Challenging Student, inÌýTeaching the Law School CurriculumÌý159 (Steven I. Friedland & Gerald F. Hess eds., Carolina Academic Press 2004).Ìý

Three Pillars of the Classroom ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ: Demystification, Rapport, and Engagement, inÌýTeaching the Law School CurriculumÌý159 (Steven I. Friedland & Gerald F. Hess eds., Carolina Academic Press 2004).Ìý

Student Notes/Comments

Note,ÌýThe Role of Law in Suicide Prevention: Beyond Civil Commitment—A Bystander Duty to Report Suicide Threats, 39ÌýStan. L. Rev.Ìý929 (1987).ÌýÌý

Education

• Stanford Law School
  J.D., Law

• Washington ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ in St. Louis
  M.A., French

• Washington ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ in St. Louis
  B.A., Undergraduate Studies