Faculty Accomplishments
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April 2018
Publications:
Ilene S. Cooper, Around the State, Courts Tackle Issues, N.Y.L.J. (Apr. 6, 2018).
Samuel J. Levine, Foreword: Benjamin N. Cardozo: Judge, Justice, Scholar, 34 TOURO L. REV. 1 (2018).
Michael Lewyn, Explaining Market Urbanism, 46 REAL EST. L.J. 589 (Spring 2018)
Michael Lewyn, What About Vancouver?, MARKET URBANISM (Apr. 11, 2018).
Michael Lewyn, Downtown Won't Kill You, PLANETIZEN (Apr. 30, 2018).
Meredith R. Miller, One Judge's Legacy and the New York Court of Appeals: Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Contracts, 34 TOURO L. REV. 263 (2018).
Deborah W. Post, Cardozo, the Canon and Some Critical Thoughts about Pedagogy, 34 TOURO L. REV. 321 (2018).
Martin A. Schwartz, Municipal Custom and Practices, N.Y.L.J. (Apr. 30, 2018).
Sol Wachtler, Keep Assault Weapons in the Military, TIMES UNION (Apr. 27, 2018).
Honors & Awards:
Ann L. Nowak, was awarded the 2018 Deborah Hecht Memorial Award Writing Award from the Legal Writing Institute for, Discovering a Predictor of Reading Comprehension Difficulties, 30 SECOND DRAFT 59 (Fall 2017).
Presentations:
Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Law and the Death Penalty, Jewish University for a Day, Stony Brook University Hillel, Stony Brook, NY, Apr. 22, 2018.
Sharon A. Pocock, Two-Fers: Creating Exercises to Accomplish Multiple Purposes, Southeastern Regional Legal Writing Conference, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 21, 2018.
Podcasts:
Michael Lewyn, Elissa Kyle Discusses the "Missing Middle" Housing, LEWYN ON LAND USE (Apr. 17, 2018).
Media Appearances:
Richard Klein, was quoted in, Ashley Cullins, Bill Cosby's Conviction May Change Defense Tactics in #MeToo Era, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Apr. 28, 2018).
Citations:
Harold I. Abramson, Problem-Solving Advocacy in Mediations, 59 DISP. RESOL. J. 56 (Aug.-Oct. 2004), was cited in, Bradley Williams, Preventing Unintended Internet Discrimination: An Analysis of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for Algorithmic Racial Steering, 2018 U. ILL. L. REV. 847 (2018).
Fabio Arcila, Jr., The Death of Suspicion, 51 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1275 (2010), was cited in, Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, The Local-Control Model of the Fourth Amendment, 108 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 253 (2018).
Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, UBE-Shopping: An Unintended Consequence of Portability?, 88 N.Y.ST. B.J., 46 (2016) was cited in, Bobbi Jo Boyd, Embracing Our Public Purpose: A Value-Based Lawyer-Licensing Model, 48 U. MEM. L. REV. 351 (2017).
Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, MASTERING THE LAW SCHOOL EXAM (2006), was mentioned in, Gerald P. López, Transform-Don't Just Tinker with-Legal Education (Part II), 24 CLINICAL L. REV. 247 (2018).
Gould Law Library, Legal Education Reform Bibliography (Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 15-03, 2014), https://ssrn.com/abstract=2500987, was selected for inclusion in SSRN's new Education Research Network.
Jack Graves, Court Litigation over Arbitration Agreements: Is It Time for a New Default Rule?, 23 AM. REV. INT'L ARB. 113 (2012) & Jack Graves, Arbitration as Contract: The Need for a Fully Developed and Comprehensive Set of Statutory Default Legal Rules, 2 WM. & MARY BUS. L. REV. 227 (2011), was cited in, S.I. Strong, Truth in A Post-Truth Society: How Sticky Defaults, Status Quo Bias, and the Sovereign Prerogative Influence the Perceived Legitimacy of International Arbitration, 2018 U. ILL. L. REV. 533 (2018).
Deseriee A. Kennedy, “The Good Mother”: Mothering, Feminism, and Incarceration, 18 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 161 (2012), was cited in, Anne C. Dailey & Laura A. Rosenbury, The New Law of the Child, 127 YALE L.J. 1448 (2018).
Samuel J. Levine, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads.
Michael Lewyn, How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City Without Zoning), 50 WAYNE L. REV. 1171 (2005), Michael Lewyn, New Urbanist Zoning for Dummies, 58 ALA. L. REV. 257 (2006) & Michael Lewyn, You Can Have It All: Less Sprawl and Property Rights Too, 80 TEMP. L. REV. 1093 (2007), were cited in, Paul Boudreaux, Infill: New Housing for Twenty-First-Century America, 45 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 595 (2018).
Michael Lewyn, Sprawl in Canada and the United States, 44 URB. LAW. 85 (2012), was cited in, Jonathan Rosenbloom, Fifty Shades of Gray Infrastructure: Land Use and the Failure to Create Resilient Cities, 93 WASH. L. REV. 317 (2018).
Michael Lewyn, Character Counts: The "Character of the Government Action" in Regulatory Takings Actions, 40 SETON HALL L. REV. 597 (2010), was cited in, Petworth Holdings, LLC v. Bowser, No. Civ. 18-3, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66398 (D.D.C. Apr. 20, 2018).
Michael Lewyn, The Middle Class, Urban Schools, and Choice, 4 BELMONT L. REV. 85 (2017), was selected for inclusion in SSRN's new Education Research Network.
Michael Lewyn, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads.
Meredith R. Miller, Corporate Codes of Conduct and Working Conditions in the Global Supply Chain: Accountability through Transparency in Private Ordering, in THE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS LANDSCAPE: MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK (Jena Martin & Karen E. Bravo, eds., 2016), was cited in, Jena Martin, Hiding in the Light: The Misuse of Disclosure to Advance the Business and Human Rights Agenda, 56 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 530 (2018).
Meredith R. Miller, Contract Law, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism, 75 MO. L. REV. 493 (2010), was cited in, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz, Distributive Justice and Donative Intent, 65 UCLA L. REV. 324 (2018).
Meredith R. Miller, Strategic Default: The Popularization of a Debate Among Contract Scholars, 9 CORNELL REAL EST. REV. 32 (2011) & Meredith R. Miller, Party Sophistication and Value Pluralism in Contract, 29 TOURO L. REV. 659 (2013), were cited in, Jeremiah A. Ho, Why Flexibility Matters: Inequality and Contract Pluralism, 18 U.C. DAVIS BUS. L.J. 35 (2017).
Meredith R. Miller, Corporate Codes of Conduct and Working Conditions in the Global Supply Chain, in THE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS LANDSCAPE 432 (Jena Martin & Karen E. Bravo eds., 2016), was cited in, Andrew G. Barna, The Early Eight and the Future of Consumer Legal Activism to Fight Modern-Day Slavery in Corporate Supply Chains, 59 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1449 (2018).
Meredith R. Miller, Designing a Solo and Small Practice Curriculum, 83 UMKC L. REV. 949 (2015), was cited in, Gerald P. López, Transform-Don't Just Tinker with-Legal Education (Part II), 24 CLINICAL L. REV. 247 (2018).
Ann Nowak, Tough Love: The Law School that Required Its Students to Learn Good Grammar, 28 TOURO L. REV. 1369 (2012), was selected for inclusion in SSRN's new Education Research Network.
Deborah W. Post (& Phoebe Haddon), Misuse and Abuse of the LSAT: Making the Case for Alternative Evaluative Efforts and a Redefinition of Merit, 80 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 41 (2006), was cited in, James S. McGrath & Andrew P. Morriss, Assessments All the Way Down, 21 GREEN BAG 2D 139 (2018).
Laura Ross (& Dan Subotnik), Scholarly Incentives, Scholarship, Article Selection, and Investment Strategies for Today's Law Schools, 30 TOURO L. REV. 615 (2014), was cited in, Patrick H. Gaughan, Facilitating Meaningful Change Within U.S. Law Schools, 16 U.N.H.L. REV. 243 (2018).
Patricia E. Salkin, From Bricks and Mortar to Mega-Bytes and Mega-Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Impact of Technology and Innovation on Urban Development, 42 URB. LAW. 11 (2011), was cited in, Seth Katsuya Endo, Technological Opacity & Procedural Injustice, 59 B.C. L. REV. 821 (2018).
Patricia E. Salkin, Regulating Controversial Land Uses, 39 REAL EST. L.J. 526 (2011), was cited in, Adrian A. Vivar, It's (Almost) My Money and I Need It Now: Facilitating Information to Encourage Competition in Tennessee's Payday Lending Markets, 48 U. MEM. L. REV. 671 (2017).
Martin A. Schwartz, Fundamentals of a Section 1983 Litigation, 17 TOURO L. REV. 525 (2001), was cited in, Eleanor Lumsden, How Much Is Police Brutality Costing America?, 40 U. HAW. L. REV. 141 (2017).
Martin A. Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION: CLAIMS AND DEFENSES (4th ed. 2017), was cited in, Margaret Ryznar, A Curious Parental Right, 71 SMU L. REV. 127 (2018).
Rena C. Seplowitz, Transfers Prior to Marriage and the Uniform Probate Code's Redesigned Elective Share--Why the Partnership Is Not Yet Complete, 25 IND. L. REV. 1 (1991), was cited in, Erez Aloni, The Marital Wealth Gap, 93 WASH. L. REV. 1 (2018).
Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Competence, Multicultural Lawyering and Race, 3 FLA. COASTAL L.J. 219 (2002), was cited in, Alexi Nunn Freeman & Lindsey Webb, Positive Disruption: Addressing Race in A Time of Social Change Through A Team-Taught, Reflection-Based, Outward-Looking Law School Seminar, 21 U. PA. J.L. & SOC. CHANGE 121 (2018).
Dan Subotnik (& Laura Ross), Scholarly Incentives, Scholarship, Article Selection, and Investment Strategies for Today's Law Schools, 30 TOURO L. REV. 615 (2014), was cited in, Patrick H. Gaughan, Facilitating Meaningful Change Within U.S. Law Schools, 16 U.N.H.L. REV. 243 (2018).