Aliza Hochman Bloom
Assistant Professor of Law
Education
Columbia University School of Law, JD 2009
Bio
Aliza Hochman Bloom is an assistant professor of law and an expert on criminal procedure, Fourth Amendment doctrine and criminal sentencing reform. Prior to joining Northeastern's faculty in 2023, she was a faculty fellow at New England Law | Boston, where she taught criminal law, criminal advocacy and legal ethics. She was previously a visiting scholar at Boston University School of Law, supervising students in the criminal law clinic.
Professor Hochman Bloom's research focuses on race in criminal procedure doctrines and has appeared or will appear in the California Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, American Criminal Law Review, New York University Law Review Forum, Minnesota Law Review and the Boston University Law Review Online.
Before joining the legal academy, Professor Hochman Bloom worked as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the appellate division of the Middle District of Florida. She clerked for Judge Charles R. Wilson of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Charlene Honeywell of the Middle District of Florida. Professor Hochman Bloom was also a litigation associate at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. She earned her BA from Yale University and her JD from Columbia University School of Law
Fields of Expertise
- Community Policing and Racial Profiling
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
Selected Works
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- “Whack-a-Mole Reasonable Suspicion,” 112 California Law Review (forthcoming 2024).
- “Objective Enough: Race is Relevant to the Reasonable Person in Criminal Procedure,” 19 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 1 (2023).
- “Misplaced Abstention: How the Supreme Court’s Deference to an Incapacitated Sentencing Commission Hurts Criminal Defendants,” New York University Law Review Forum (May 2022).
- “'What Has Always Been True': The Washington Supreme Court Decides That Seizure Law Must Account for Racial Disparity in Policing,” 107 Minnesota Law Review 1 (2022).
- “Long Overdue: Confronting Race in the Fourth Amendment’s Free-to-Leave Analysis,” 65 Howard Law Journal 1 (2021).
- “Time and Punishment: How the ACCA Unjustly Creates a 'One-Day Career Criminal," 57 American Criminal Law Review 1 (2020).
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- “Inferable Discrimination: A Landmark Decision Addresses Selective Law Enforcement,” ACS Expert Forum (April 4, 2024).
- “How Can Alec Baldwin Still Be Facing Charges for Movie Set Shooting? Northeastern Law Experts Explain,” Northeastern Global News (October 25, 2023).
- “New Jersey Provides a Road Map for Fighting Racially Biased Traffic Stops,” Slate (September 20, 2023).
Aliza Hochman Bloom
Assistant Professor of Law