Robert M. Bloom
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
Work in Progress:
“The Story of Earls: Drug Testing in the Public Schools.” In Education Law Stories. New York: Foundation Press.
Presentations:
- Panelist and Lecturer on eyewitness and informant issues for ABA Criminal Justice Section. (Baltimore, Maryland November 2005)
- Member of the panel, "Dred Scott to Grutter: Civil Rights through the Years," for Black History Month at BC Law in February 2005
- Talk on terroism and the abuse of presidential power before board of overseers BC Law (Oct 2006)
- Presentation on American legal education at the Hyogoken Bar Association, Kobe, Japan, in October
- Presentation on jury nullification and suggestions for implementing a mixed jury system in Japan, at the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo, Japan, in November
- On the subject of racial profiling at a discussion highlighting the acts of terrorism on September 11, sponsored by the Civil Rights Group at BC Law in January
- On racial profiling as part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Black American Law Student Association at BC Law in March.
Activities:
- Grant Recipient-From the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and in Partnership with Boston University School and Tomsk State University Law Faculty of Russia to assist in developing a law curriculum in Tomsk. (September 2002) In conjunction with this grant visited Tomsk State University (June 2003)(May 2005)
- 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:
- 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 numerous newspapers on the use of informants by the government.
- Coach of the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Team, won the competition at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey, in March 2006 and 2007.
COURSES
- Fall '06: Civil Procedure; Criminal Procedure; National Criminal Procedure Moot Court
- Spring '07: Civil Procedure; Criminal Procedure; Judicial Process
PUBLICATIONS
- With Mark S. Brodin. Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations. 5th ed. Boston: Aspen Publishers, 2007
- 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
- Update editor. Chapters 3, 6, 31-36, 81. In Moore's Federal Practice, 3rd ed., 2003 update. 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
Mark S. Brodin
Mark S. Brodin is Professor of Law and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Boston College Law School. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School (where he served on the Law Review), Professor Brodin clerked for United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro from 1972 to 1974. He was Staff Counsel with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association from 1974 to 1980, representing plaintiffs in civil rights actions including DeGrace v. Rumsfeld, 614 F. 2d 796 (1st Cir. 1980); N.A.A.C.P. Boston Chapter v. Harris, 607 F. 2d 514 (1st Cir. 1979); Harris v. White, 479 F. Supp. 996 (D. Mass. 1979); Cooke v. Sarni Original Dry Cleaners, 2 M.D.L.R. 1012 (1980), aff'd 388 Mass. 611 (1983) (trial counsel.)
Professor Brodin has published extensively in the areas of employment discrimination, constitutional criminal procedure, evidence and litigation. He is the author of numerous law review articles and co-author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence (Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Editions) with Paul J. Liacos and Michael Avery (Little, Brown/ Aspen., 2007); Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations (First thru Fifth Editions) with Robert M. Bloom (Aspen 2007); Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (First and Second Editions) (Aspen 2004) (with Steve Subrin, Martha Minow, & Thom Main).
Professor Brodin has served for brief periods as an appellate attorney with the Massachusetts Defenders Committee (now the Committee for Public Counsel) and as a special assistant district attorney with the Norfolk County District Attorney.
Professor Brodin was named BC Law's 2002-2003 Faculty Member of the Year by the Law Students Association, and given the Ruth-Arlene W. Howe Award from the Black Law Students’ Association in 2005 and 2006.
EDUCATION
B.A., J.D., Columbia University.
PUBLICATIONS
- Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations, 5th ed. (Aspen 2007) (with Robert M. Bloom)
- Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, 8th ed. (Aspen 2007) (with Michael Avery)
- Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context, 2d ed. (Aspen 2004) (with Stephen N. Subrin, Martha L. Minow and Thomas O. Main)
- "Behavioral Science Evidence in the Age of Daubert: Reflections of a Skeptic" 73 University of Cincinnati Law Review 867(2005)
- "The Demise of Circumstantial Proof in Employment Discrimination Litigation: St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, Pretext, and the 'Personality' Excuse." 18 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 183 (1997)
- "Accuracy, Efficiency, and Accountability in the Litigation Process - The Case for the Fact Verdict." 59 University of Cincinnati Law Review 15 (1990)
- "Reflections on the Supreme Court's 1988 Term: The Employment Discrimination Decisions and the Abandonment of the Second Reconstruction." 31 Boston College Law Review 1 (1989)
- "Costs, Profits, and Equal Employment Opportunity." 62 Notre Dame Law Review 318 (1987)
- "The Role of Fault and Motive in Defining Discrimination: The Seniority Question Under Title VII." 62 North Carolina Law Review 943 (1984)
- Review of A Constitutional History of Habeas Corpus, by William F. Duker. 8 New England Journal on Prison Law 325 (Winter 1982)
- "The Standard of Causation in the Mixed-Motive Title VII Action -- A Social Policy Perspective." 82 Columbia Law Review 292 (1982)
- "Case Note: Ashe v. Swenson: Collateral Estoppel, Double Jeopardy, and Inconsistent Verdicts." 71 Columbia Law Review 321 (1971)
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Presentations:
- “Evidence and Proof,” at the annual conference of the Division of Industrial Accidents Judges, Lexington, Massachusetts, in June 2004
- “Recent Developments in Scientific and Forensic Evidence,” to the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference at BC Law in April, 2004
- "Dred Scott to Grutter: Civil Rights through the Years," for Black History Month at BC Law in February, 2004
Work in Progress:
William P. Homans, Jr.: A Life in Court
Appointments:
- Appointed by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall to the Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law in Jully 2006
- Observed war crimes proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, in November 2004.
COURSES
Evidence, Civil Procedure, Scientific Evidence, Employment Discrimination Law