Faculty Accomplishments

Michael Lewyn, Two Arguments against Home-Sharing, 45 REAL EST. L.J. 432 (2016).

Michael Lewyn, (this month’s blog posts on PLANETIZEN) While Rural America Zigged, Suburban Sprawl Zagged (Nov. 21, 2016) & Does Suburbia Promote Fertility? (Nov. 7, 2016).

Sol Wachtler, Commentary, Nation Proved its Staying Power During Election of 1800, TIMES-UNION, 11/23/16 at D1.

Jack Graves, Technology and A2J for the SME Engaged in Global Trade Technology and A2J for the SME Engaged in Global Trade, Faculty Colloquium, Touro Law Center, November 2, 2016.

Samuel J. Levine, Law and Ethics: What’s the Difference?, Loyola University, Maryland, November 2016.

Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Law Institute CLE, Skadden Arps, N.Y., November 17, 2016.

Harold I. Abramson, A Fifth Branch of Government: The Private Regulators and Their Constitutionality, 16 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 165 (1989), was quoted in Emily Hammond, Double Deference in Administrative Law, 116 COLUM. L. REV. 1705 (2016).

Harry Ballan was quoted in Andrew Denney, Many Bar Pass Rates Rise in First Year of UBE, N.Y.L.J., 11/14/16 at 1, col. 3.

Rodger Citron, The Nuremberg Trials and American Jurisprudence: The Decline of Legal Realism and the Revival of Natural Law, in THE NUREMBERG TRIALS: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW SINCE 1945 (Herbert Reginbogin & Christoph Safferling, eds., 2006), was cited in Kerstin Bree Carlson, Reconciliation Through A Judicial Lens: Competing Legitimation Frameworks in the Icty's Plavsic and Babic Judgments, 44 DENV. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 281 (2016).

Ilene S. Cooper & Jaclene D'Agostino, Forfeiture and New York's “Slayer Rule,” 87 N.Y. ST. B.A. J. 30 (Mar./Apr. 2015), was cited in Gerald Lebovits, Will of Fortune: New York Will Drafting-Part 1, 88 N.Y. ST. B.A. J. 64 (Nov./Dec. 2016).

Eileen Kaufman, The Second Amendment: An Analysis of District of Columbia v. Heller, 25 Touro L. Rev. 703 (2009), was cited in Ryan Notarangelo, Hunting Down the Meaning of the Second Amendment: An American Right to Pursue Game, 61 S.D. L. REV. 201 (2016).

Samuel J. Levine, Halacha and Aggada: Translating Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative, 1998 UTAH L. REV. 465 (1998), was cited in Michael D. Murray, The Ethics of Visual Legal Rhetoric, 13 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 107 (2016).

Samuel J. Levine, Taking Ethical Discretion Seriously: Ethical Deliberation as Ethical Obligation, 37 IND. L. REV. 21 (2003), was quoted and cited in Louis Fisher, Civil Disobedience as Legal Ethics: The Cause Lawyer and the Tension between Morality and “Lawyering Law”, 51 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 481 (2016).

Samuel J. Levine, Looking at the Establishment Clause through the Prism of Religious Perspectives: Religious Majorities, Religious Minorities, and Nonbelievers, 87 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 775 (2012) & Religious Symbols and Religious Garb in the Courtroom: Personal Values and Public Judgments, 66 FORDHAM L. REV. 1505 (1998), were cited in Matthew LeMieux, Religious Liberty in Germany and the United States: A Comparison (2016) (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Osnabrück, Germany).

Michael Lewyn, Against the Neighborhood Veto, 44 REAL EST. L. J. 82 (2015), was cited in Michael N. Widener, Land Use Consultations Advancing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Ripe for Clinical Trials, 18 CARDOZO J. CONFLICT RESOL. 85 (2016).

Michael Lewyn was quoted in Laura Bliss, The Best Reader Comments: The True Meaning of Joel Kotkin's 'Localism', CITY LAB (Nov. 14, 2016). 

Melissa Luckman was quoted in Emily C. Dooley, Schumer, Gillibrand: Speed Up Sandy Flood Claim Probe, NEWSDAY, Oct. 31, 2016.

Meredith Miller was quoted in LGBT Bar Partners With Legal.io For Pro Bono, Referral Services, N.Y.L.J., Nov. 8, 2016, at 6, col. 4 & Ricci Dipshan, Community Tech: NY LGBT Bar Association Partners With Legal.io for Pro Bono, Referral Services, LEGAL TECH. NEWS (Nov. 3, 2016).

Patricia E. Salkin, AMERICAN LAW OF ZONING (5th ed. 2016), was cited in Tanya D. Marsh, A New Lease on Death: Leasing, Land Use, and Retail Funeral Establishments, 32 PRAC. REAL EST. LAW. 31 (2016).

Patricia E. Salkin & John R. Nolon, Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Law Pedagogy and Best Practices, 60 J. LEGAL ED. 519 (2011), was cited in Michael N. Widener, Land Use Consultations Advancing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Ripe for Clinical Trials, 18 CARDOZO J. CONFLICT RESOL. 85 (2016).

Patricia E. Salkin, The Quiet Revolution and Federalism: Into the Future, 45 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 253 (2012), was cited in Bethany R. Berger, The Illusion of Fiscal Illusion in Regulatory Takings, 66 AM. U. L. REV. 1 (2016).

Patricia E. Salkin & John R. Nolon, LAND USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (8th ed. 2012), was cited in Christopher K. Odinet, The Unfinished Business of Dodd-Frank: Reforming the Mortgage Contract, 69 SMU L. REV. 653 (2016).

Gary Shaw, A Heretical View of Teaching: A Contrarian Looks at Teaching, The Carnegie Report, and Best Practices, 28 TOURO L. REV. 1239 (2012), was cited in Jonathan K. Van Patten, Skills for Law Students, 61 S.D. L. REV. 165 (2016).

Marjorie A. Silver, Love, Hate and Other Emotional Interference in the Lawyer/Client Relationship, 6 CLINICAL L. REV. 259 (1999), was cited in Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Client As Subject: Humanizing the Legal Curriculum, 23 CLINICAL L. REV. 37 (2016).

Marjorie A. Silver, Evening the Odds: The Case for Attorneys' Fee Awards for Administrative Resolution of Title VI And Title VII Disputes, 67 N.C. L. REV. 379 (1989), was cited in Leora F. Eisenstadt & Jeffrey R. Boles, Intent and Liability in Employment Discrimination, 53 AM. BUS. L.J. 607 (2016).

Marjorie A Silver, The Professional Responsibility of Lawyers: Emotional Competence, Multiculturalism and Ethics, 13 J.L. & MEDICINE 431 (2006), was cited in Martha E. Simmons, Innovative Thinking and Clinical Education: The Experience of the Osgoode Mediation Intensive Program, 37 MAN. L.J. 363 (2013).

Marjorie A Silver, Sanford Portnoy & Jean Koh Peters, Stress, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and Other Emotional Realities in the Lawyer/Client Relationship: A Panel Discussion, 19 TOURO L. REV. 847 (2004), was cited in M. Lynne Jenkins, Teaching Law Students: Lessening the Potential Effects of Vicarious Trauma, 37 MAN. L.J. 383 (2013) & Janelle Anderson, Clinical Legal Education: Perspectives from Former Clinical Law Students, 37 MAN. L.J. 427 (2013).