Rodger Citron - Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law
About
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law
631-761-7102
rcitron@tourolaw.edu
Education
B.A., 1988, summa cum laude, Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., 1992, Yale Law School
Administrative Law
Complex Litigation
Jurisprudence
Rodger Citron is a graduate of Yale College, Phi Beta
Kappa and summa cum laude, and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of
the Yale Law Journal and a recipient of the C. LaRue Munson Prize. After law
school, he clerked for the Hon. Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., of the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a law
professor, he worked as a trial attorney at the United States Department of
Justice; a director at FindLaw, Inc.; and an attorney-advisor at the Federal
Communications Commission.
Professor Citron has served as the Associate Dean for
Research and Scholarship since late 2019. His law review articles have
been published in a number of law reviews, including the Stanford Journal of
Complex Litigation, South Carolina Law Review, Rutgers Law Review, and
Administrative Law Review. His student note in the Yale Law Journal has
been cited by seven courts and in more than 40 law review articles. In addition
to the articles he has published in law reviews, Professor Citron is a
co-author of A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (2009) and
the forthcoming Learning Administrative Law (2025). His articles also
have been published on Slate, Justia, and SCOTUS blog and in the Washington
Monthly, National Law Journal, Legal Times, and Hartford Courant. From January
2007 through December 2010, he served as a reporter for the New York State Pattern
Jury Instructions Committee.
Professor Citron teaches Civil Procedure and
Administrative Law and has taught a number of elective courses, including
Jurisprudence, Supreme Court Seminar, and Law and Literature. In 2024, he
received the Touro Law Faculty Devoted Service to Legal Education Award.
In 2023, Professor Citron was voted Faculty Member of the Year by the Touro Law
Center Student Bar Association in 2023.
To read a longer bio of Rodger Citron, please click
here.
Publications
Book
A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (co-author with Brandt Goldstein and Molly Beutz).
Articles
From Kiobel Back to Structural Reform: the Hidden Legacy of Holocaust Restitution Litigation, 2 Stan. J. Complex Litigation 139 (2014) (co-author with Leora Bilsky and Natalie Davidson)
The Nuremberg Trials and American Jurisprudence: The Decline of Legal Realism, the Revival of Natural Law, and the Development of Legal Process Theory, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 385 (2006).
The Nuremberg Trials and American Jurisprudence: The Decline of Legal Realism and the Revival of Natural Law, published in The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945 (ed. Herbert Reginbogin & Christoph Safferling) (2006).
Lessons from the Next Wave Saga: The Federal Communications Commission, the Courts, and the Use of Market Forms to Perform Public Functions, 57 Admin. L. Rev. 687 (2005) (co-author with John Rogovin).