August 25, 2008

Professor Harmon Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development

Central Islip, NY – Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center is pleased to announce that Professor Louise Harmon has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development. In her new capacity, she will work closely with faculty members to assist them in research and in the publication of the resulting scholarship from that work. She will continue teaching classes at Touro Law Center.

“With the creation of this position, we now have an added focus on faculty development. The selection of Professor Harmon for this position will ensure that a senior faculty member with a distinguished record of scholarship will spend a significant amount of time on faculty research, scholarship and development and the related broader issues of academic affairs,” said Dean Lawrence Raful. “I believe this is an important step for Touro Law Center and am confident that the work and efforts of Associate Dean Harmon will showcase Touro Law in a new light by promoting and supporting our community of scholars.”

Associate Dean Harmon has been a professor of law at Touro for 25 years. Before beginning her career in legal education, she was in private practice with a large commercial law firm in Chicago. In addition to her regular teaching, she offers courses, respectively, in Biomedical Ethics, Indian and Tibetan Law and Philosophy and China’s Legal Traditions in Touro’s summer programs in India and China.

Among her many publications, Professor Harmon is author of Fragments on the Deathwatch (Beacon Press, 1998) and co-author, with Touro Law Center colleague Professor Deborah Post, of Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching (New York University Press, 1996).