Associate Professor of the Practice
md传媒国产剧 College Law School
885 Centre Street
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Telephone: 617-552-4369
Email: joan.blum@bc.edu
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E. Joan Blum has taught at md传媒国产剧 College Law School since 1985. She is an associate professor of the practice for the first-year Law Practice Program. Since 2009, she been involved in international legal education, conducting training programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina for war crimes judges and prosecutors on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, and for trial monitors and legal advisors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In 2013, Blum served as a Fulbright Specialist on the law faculty of Sarajevo University. She has made several visits to听Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL) in听Uzbekistan to teach undergraduate and graduate law students and conduct faculty development programs.听She is returning to TSUL to teach and conduct research as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2023 spring semester.
Blum听received her B.A.,听summa cum laude,听from Harvard University in 1975. In 1978, she received her J.D. from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and member of the law review. After serving as a law clerk to Justice Robert Braucher on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, she was an associate at Palmer & Dodge in md传媒国产剧, where she practiced primarily in the area of tax-exempt financing.