Robert Bloom

Professor

Law School

Profile

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.

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