Professor
Law School
Telephone: 617-552-4374
Email: robert.bloom@bc.edu
Constitutional Law
Court System
Civil and Criminal Procedures
Fourth Amendment
Judges and Jurors
National Security Agency
Police: Use of Informants, Interrogation
Professor Robert Bloom specializes in constitutional law; criminal procedure; civil procedure; court system; police abuse; police use of informants; Fourth Amendment; police interrogation; judges and jurors. A former civil rights attorney and assistant district attorney, Professor Bloom is the author of numerous books,Cases Criminal Procedure 2017-2018; Ratting: The Use and Abuse of Informants in the American Justice System;Constitutional Criminal Procedure; Examples & Explanations: Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police(Eighth Edition);Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police - Examples and Explanations; Searches, Seizures, and Warrants: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution; andCriminal Procedure Mate: Searches and Seizures, Interrogation, Identifications, and Exclusionary Remedy.
Professor Bloom is an update editor and has written several chapters ofMoore's Federal Practice, a major treatise on federal civil practice, and “The Fourth Amendment Fetches Fido; Dog Sniffs and the Fourth Amendment” (Wake Forest Law Review).Professor Bloom has been widely quoted by national and local media outlets on a number of high profile cases, including the trials of James “Whitey” Bulger, Aaron Hernandez, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.