Christine Bartholomew is a professor of law at the University at Buffalo School of Law. She is an eight-time winner of the law school’s only teaching award, the Faculty Award. In 2021, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also received the 2019 Jacob B. Hyman Distinguished Professor Award and the 2020-2021 Mid-American Conference Institutional Award for Outstanding Faculty for Student Success.
She teaches evidence, antitrust, and civil procedure, and her scholarship focuses on the interplay of these topics, particularly in complex litigation. She is a member of the American Law Institute, an associate editor for the ABA Antitrust Law Journal, and her academic publications have appeared in many leading academic journals, including Duke Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. Her work has been cited by state and federal courts, as well as garnered media attention. She has been quoted in Slate, featured in The Conversation, quoted in major news outlets including USA Today, Reuters, and Mother Jones.
Bartholomew received her B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1997 and her JD from the University at California, Davis, in 2000. Upon graduation, she worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as an attorney, practicing in the areas of antitrust and consumer protection. During her career in legal practice, she served in executive and lead counsel positions for numerous national, multi-million-dollar cases and was the managing attorney for the San Francisco branch office of a Washington, DC-based class action boutique law firm.
