Ira Mark Bloom

Summary

Ira Mark Bloom is an American law professor, legal scholar, and the Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.

Ira Mark Bloom
Born (1944-11-10) November 10, 1944 (age 79)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCity College of New York (BBA)
Syracuse University School of Law (JD)
Scientific career
FieldsEstate planning
Trusts
Wills
Tax
InstitutionsAlbany Law School

Education and early career edit

Bloom received a BBA from City College of New York in 1966 and a JD 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.[1]

Academia edit

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.[2] His courses include Estate Planning, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, Federal Income Taxation, Future Interests, Property, Trusts and Estates, and Wealth Transmission Process.[2]

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.[2] His fifth and newest edition of Fundamentals of Trusts and Estates was released in the summer of 2017. He is also the author of fourteen law review articles.

While at Albany Law School, Bloom has served as an advisor for the Tax Moot Court Team of Albany Law School from 1980 through 1989.

Professional activities edit

Bloom is the chair of the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section.[3] 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.

Bloom was a consultant to the EPTL-SCPA Legislative Advisory Committee in New York State from 1991 to 1993. Bloom also consulted on transfer taxation with the Legislative Tax Study Commission of New York from 1982 to 1983.

Awards edit

Bloom won Loyola Student Bar Association's Best Professor Award in both 1975 and 1978. In 2009, Bloom received Albany Law School's Excellence in Service Award.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Ira Bloom". Albany Law School. 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  2. ^ a b c d "Biography: Ira Bloom". Albany Law School. 3 February 2021.
  3. ^ Cooper, Ilene S. (2013-01-22). "Updating N.Y. Trust Laws: Much Work Remains". New York Law Journal. Retrieved 2013-05-15. [dead link]

External links edit

  • Albany Law School Biography
  • NYSBA Biography Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine