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Frank Bloch

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Professor of Law .Director, Social Justice Program

Voice: (615) 322-4901
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: frank.bloch@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 282
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Research Interest(s)

Social Security and public welfare, clinical legal education

Education

Ph.D (Politics), M.A., B.A. Brandeis University
J.D. Columbia University

Biography

Frank Bloch is an internationally prominent expert in social security and other public benefit programs. He is also a leader in the international clinical education movement, most notably as one of the founding members of the Global Alliance for Justice Education. Professor Bloch has served as a Fulbright Professor at Delhi University in India and as a Research Fellow at the International Social Security Association in Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently serving as a consultant on a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project to train Chinese law professors in teaching professional skills and in clinical legal education. Over the course of his career, he has served as vice-chair of an Institute of Medicine committee studying the Social Security disability decision-making process, as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Social Security Advisory Board, and as chair of the American Bar Association's Income Security Committee, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He joined the Vanderbilt law faculty as Director of Clinical Education in 1979 from the University of Chicago Law School. Before he began his academic career, he worked as a legal aid lawyer with California Rural Legal Assistance. At Vanderbilt, Professor Bloch has taught courses on social security, poverty law, social justice, evidence and civil procedure as well as a live-client clinical course on civil practice.

 

Representative Publications

Books

  • The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2009) (editor)
     

  • Bloch on Social Security Disability (West Publishing Co., 2008) (prior editions annually since 1995) (available only electronically on Westlaw, Social Security Excellence, and CD-ROM Library)

  • Who Returns to Work and Why? A Six-Country Study on Work Incapacity and Reintegration (Transaction Publishing, 2001) (co-edited with R. Prins)

  • Clinical Anthology: Readings For Live-Client Clinics (Anderson Pub. Co., 1997) (co-edited with A. Hurder, S. Brooks & S. Kay)

  • Disability Determination, Greenwood Press (1992)

Articles

Working Papers

  • “Bridging the Gap in Training Resources: Developing A Cadre of Trained Clinical Teachers,” forthcoming in Clinical Methods for Justice Education, N.R. Madhava Menon, editor (with N.R. Madhava Menon)

  • "Clinical Legal Education: Concept, Goals, and Methods," forthcoming in Clinical Methods for Justice Education (N.R. Madhava Menon, editor) (with N.R. Madhava Menon)

Presentations

  • "The Global Clinical Movement: Opportunities for Growth in an Ever Shrinking World,” Combined Seventh International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference & 10th Australian Clinical Legal Education Conference at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2009)

  • “The Quest for Socially Relevant Legal Education in India,” Yale Law School (2008)

  • “Disability and the Contract for Income Support in the Modern Welfare State,” workshop on The Social Contract Revisited sponsored by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, England (2007)



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