Nationality American Fields Will and testament, Tax Institution Albany Law School | Name Ira Bloom Institutions Albany Law School | |
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Books Estates and Trusts: Cases, Problems, and Materials | ||
Ira Mark Bloom is an American law professor, legal scholar, and the Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.
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Education and early career
Bloom received a B.B.A. from City College of New York in 1966 and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1969. While at Syracuse he was Research Editor of the Syracuse Law Review.
After graduating from law school, Bloom spent five years as a trial and appellate attorney with the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice through its Honors Program.
Academia
Professor Bloom is Currently the Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where he has taught since 1979. Prior to joining the faculty at Albany, Bloom was a visiting professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and Tulane University Law School.
Bloom is the co-author of the books Fundamentals of Trusts and Estates, Federal Taxation of Estates, Trusts and Gifts, Estates and Trusts: Cases, Problems and Materials and Drafting New York Wills. He is also the author of fourteen law review articles.
Professional activities
Bloom is the chair of the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section. He is also an academic fellow at the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a New York State Bar Foundation fellow, and a member of the American Law Institute consultative groups on the restatements of the law of property and trusts.