Michael Bloom | Praktio

I have been curating spaces for students and professionals to make mistakes—and learn from them—since 2009.

I founded and run Praktio (www.praktio.com), a provider of interactive, online learning games and exercises for developing practical contracts skills and knowhow.

At the University of Michigan Law School, I was the founding director of the Transactional Lab & Clinic, an experiential program, through which students work on transactional matters, under faculty supervision, for large, mature organizations around the world (e.g., Pepsi, Aon, NPR) and small, local organizations around the Law School. I also taught other contracts, business, and transactional law classes at the Michigan Law. Among other activities, I served as Chair of the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education for 2018 and as Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Teaching Methods for 2018.

Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, I was a Lecturer in Law and the Executive Director of the Corporate Lab Transactional Clinic, which I co-founded, at the University of Chicago Law School. In addition to practicing transactional law in a clinical setting, I practiced at Sidley Austin, with a focus on technology transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

I am the co-author of two books on contracts from a transactional perspective: Contracts and Commercial Transactions; and Contracts: A Transactional Approach, both published by Aspen.

I earned my J.D. from Yale Law School, where I served as a Teaching Fellow and helped launch a community development bank as part of the Community Development Financial Institutions Clinic. I earned my B.A. "with highest distinction"​ from the University of Michigan, where I studied American history and was a Dean's Merit Scholar and a member of the Bentley Society.