BACKGROUND

Robert M. Bloom, Professor of Law, has had legal experience in legal services, civil rights law, and as a criminal attorney, both a defense lawyer and prosecutor. He also has been a court-appointed master on complicated civil cases. He is the author of numerous publications in the area of criminal procedure and civil procedure.

Professor Bloom received the Ruth Arlene Howe Faculty Member of the Year award from the Black Law Students Association for the 2002-2003 academic year.

EDUCATION

B.S., Northeastern University; J.D., Boston College.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Works in Progress: "Border Searches and the Fourth Amendment Post 9-11-2001." Mississippi Law Review (forthcoming 2008)

Presentations: Border Searches, Terrorism, and the Fourth Amendment presentation to be given April 2008 at the University of Mississippi Law School.

 Drug Testing in Public Schools, presentation, University of Cincinnati Law School, April 2008.

Debate on Fourth Amendment Issues in Homeland Security Law, Washington D.C., Feb. 2008.

Member of the panel, "Dred Scott to Grutter: Civil Rights through the Years," for Black History Month at BC Law in 2006.

Presentation on American Legal Education at Tomsk State Law School, Tomsk, Russia, in 2005.

Presentation on American Legal Education at the Hyogoken Bar Association, Kobe, Japan, in 2002.

Presentation on jury nullification and suggestions for implementing a mixed jury system in Japan, at the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002. 

Activities: : Panelist at Cincinnatti on Education Law on April 14, 2008 and lectured on developments in the  4th amendment law to appellate judges at University of Mississippi. Worked on a death penalty case in Oklahoma in 2006. As update editor for Moore’s Federal Practice, he is responsible for Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 3, 6, 31–36, 77, and 81. Member of the BC Law Alumni Association Law Day Committee.

Appointments: Visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nisinomiya, Japan.

Other: Coached two moot court teams at the Sixteenth Annual National Criminal Procedure Tournament at the University of San Diego School of Law in October 2004. Hosted a delegation from the Japanese Supreme Court. Hosted Dean Vladimir Utkin of the Law Institute of Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, in April. Received the Ruth-Arlene Howe Award for Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year from the BC Law Black Law Students Association in April 2003.

Quoted in the Boston Globe for an article on the use of informants by the FBI in relation to the John Connolly trial in Boston, and for a story on jury behavior. As a guest on NECN NewsNight, discussed legalities of disputes over settlements in church-related sexual abuse cases. Interviewed by the Associated Press regarding the rules for FBI agents recruiting informants in the war on terrorism. Coach of the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Team, the quarterfinalists at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey, in March.

COURSES

Fall '07: Criminal Procedure; National Criminal Procedure Moot Court; Civil Procedure
Spring '08: Judicial Process; National Criminal Procedure Moot Court; Civil Procedure

PUBLICATIONS

• With Hillary Massey. "Accounting for Federalism in State Courts: Exclusion of Evidence Obtained Lawfully by Federal Agents." University of Colorado Law Review 79, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 381-420.
• "The Story of Pottawatomie County v. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing in the Public Schools." In Education Law Stories, edited by Michael A. Olivas, Ronna Greff Schneider, 337-369. New York: Foundation Press, 2008.
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 55 – Default Judgement in Moore’s Federal Practice, Vol. 10_(4^th ed.)    Matthew Bender, 2007)
• With Mark S. Brodin. Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police: Examples and Explanations.  5th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2006.
• Moore's Federal Practice.  3rd ed., 2006 update. Updates editor: Chapter 31-36, 80. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2006. 
• With William J. Dunn. “The Constitutional Infirmity of Warrantless NSA Surveillance: The Abuse of Presidential Power and the Inquiry to the Fourth Amendment.” William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 15 (2006): 147-202.
• “Jury Trials in Japan.” Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 28 (2006): 35-68.
• “Introduction to the Civil Procedure Puzzle.” In Teaching the Law School Curriculum, edited by Steven Friedland and Gerald F. Hess, 19. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2004.
• With Mark S. Brodin. Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2004.
• "More Citizen Jurors or Fewer Citizen Jurors." [Japanese translation by Satoru Shinomiya] Quarterly Keigi-Bengo 33 (Spring 2003): 14-17.
• Searches, Seizures, and Warrants: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2003.
• "Jailhouse Informants." Criminal Justice 18: no.1 (Spring 2003): 20-26, 78.
•  Moore's Federal Practice, 3rd ed., 2003 update. Updates editor: Chapters 3, 6, 31-36, 81. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2003. 
• Ratting: The Use and Abuse of Informants in the American Justice System. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.
• With Mark S. Brodin. Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. 3rd ed. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Law & Business, 2000.
• Chapter author for "Automobile Searches." Chapter 4D, 4D-1– 4D-62, "Suppression of Illegally Obtained Evidence: Pretext Searches." Chapter 83, 83-1 - 83-18, in Criminal Defense Techniques, edited by Robert M. Cipes and others. New York: Matthew Bender, 1997.
• Chapter author. "Commencement of Action." Chapter 3 (Co-authored with Daniel R. Coquillette) 3-1–3-34, "Time." Chapter 6, 6-1– 6-143, "Applicability in General." Chapter 81, 81-1–81-40, in Moore's Federal Practice, 3rd ed., edited by Daniel R. Coquillette et al. New York: Matthew Bender, 1997.
• With Mark S. Brodin. Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. 2nd ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1996.
• "Clinical Education Programs-An Overview." In SAPLA Handbook for Pre-Law Advisors, Seventh Printing and Revision, compiled and edited by Gerald Lee Wilson, 93-95. Southern Association of Pre-law Advisors, September 1995.
• "Criminal Procedure Mate: Searches and Seizures, Interrogation, Identifications, and Exclusionary Remedy." [Boston]: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
• "Judicial Integrity: A Call for its Re-Emergence in the Adjudication of Criminal Cases." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 84 (Fall 1994): 462-501.
• "Inevitable Discovery: An Exception beyond the Fruits." American Journal of Criminal Law 20 (Fall 1992): 79-103.
• With Mark S. Brodin. Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
• "United States v. Leon and its Ramifications." University of Colorado Law Review 56 (Winter 1985): 247-263.
• "The Supreme Court and its Purported Preference for Search Warrants." Tennessee Law Review 50 (Winter 1983): 231-270.
• "Warrant Requirement -- The Burger Court Approach." University of Colorado Law Review 53 (Summer 1982): 691-744.
• With Marshall F. Newman. "Rent Control." Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law 21 (1974): 502-537.