Joost Blom joined the Allard School of Law in 1972, served as Associate Dean 1982-85, and as Dean 1997-2003. He has been a Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School (1981), Part-time Lecturer at the University of Victoria (1979-81), Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Trier (Germany) (1996), and Senior Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne (2006).
Professor Blom's research and writing have been concentrated in the areas of Contracts and Torts, focusing on the relationship between them; in Conflict of Laws (Private International Law); and in Comparative Law. He served as President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers 1983-84. He was elected as a bencher of the Law Society of B.C. for four terms 2004-11 and became a Life Bencher as of 2012.
He has served as Chair (1996-97) of the Board and Treasurer (1995-96 and 2004-06) of the Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C., and he continues on the Board. He has regularly given presentations in the Society's courses. Prof. Blom also served on the board of Courthouse Libraries B.C. 2006-13 and was Treasurer 2009-13. He is Chair of the Mackenzie King Scholarship Board of Trustees and a Membre Titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He was awarded the designation of Queen's Counsel (for B.C.) in 1985.
