B.B.A., City College of New York
J.D., Syracuse University

Previously a professor at Loyola University College of Law, New Orleans, and a visiting professor at McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, Calif.; Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans; and The Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio. Author of numerous law review articles, co-author of nine law school casebooks on tax and trusts and estates, and principal author of the two-volume treatise Drafting New York Wills and Related Documents (Matthew Bender).

Professor Bloom is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel; he currently serves on the Estate and Gift, State Laws and Legal Education Committees. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and was actively involved in the formulation of the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and the Restatement (Third) of Property (Wills and other Donative Transfers). 

Professor Bloom is the past Chair of the Trusts and Estates Law Section, New York Bar Association; he previously served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Taxation Committee and Chair of the Multi-State Practice Committee,. Professor Bloom was also the Section's liaison to the EPTL-SCPA Legislative Advisory Committee which worked on recommending adoption of the Uniform Trust Code in New York. He is currently Chair of the Section’s NYUTC Committee and a member of the NYUTC-Legislative Advisory Group’s Steering Committee.

Professor Bloom has served as a member of the Trusts and Estates and Surrogate’s Court committee of the Bar of the City of New York. He is currently serving as a member of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the Bar of the City of New York.