Susan Low Bloch


Susan Low Bloch is an American professor specializing in Constitutional law and communications law at Georgetown University Law Center, who is widely quoted in the press on interpretation of the United States Constitution.

Biography

Bloch received her B.A. from Smith College in 1966 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She then pursued graduate studies in mathematics and computer science at the University of Michigan, receiving M.A. degrees in 1968 and 1972. She earned her J.D. in 1975, graduating first in her class, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from University of Michigan Law School, where she was notes editor of the Michigan Law Review. Following graduation, she served as a clerk for Judge Spottswood Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and during the 1976 Term for Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States. Bloch then entered private practice and was an associate at the firm of Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering for four years.
In 1982, Bloch joined the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center as an assistant professor. She has served on the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors, American Law Institute and United States Supreme Court Historical Society.
Her co-authored case books include Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and Its Procedures and Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedures. In 2013, she co-wrote with Vicki C. Jackson, Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution.

Personal life

In 1966, she married attorney Richard Bloch, and they have two children who are both lawyers.

Selected publications

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