January 2026
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January 2026
Publications:
Rodger D. Citron, Anthony Kennedy’s Life, Law & Liberty: Notes on the Memoir of the Median Justice of a Now Bygone Era, Verdict (Jan. 20, 2026).
Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, Even If You’ve Adopted the NextGen UBE, Your Work Isn’t Done Yet, 40 Touro L. Rev. 889 (2025).
Mark Goldfeder & Stuart Force, Don’t Let the Palestinian Authority Derail a New Middle East, National Review (Nov. 4, 2025).
Taurus Myhand, You Get the Jury You Get and You Don’t Throw a Fit, 53 Fordham Urb. L.J. 605 (2025).
Jolie Bodner Zangari, Depraved Indifference Murder in New York State: Proving Depravity in Vehicular Homicide Cases, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1175 (2025).
Honors, Awards & Appointments:
Hal Abramson, Global Elite Thought Leader for Commercial Mediation and Top Mediation Attorney in New York State, Lexology (2026).
Joan C. Foley, re-elected to the 2026 Executive Committee for the Association of American Law Schools, Aging and the Law Section (Dec. 30, 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, Secretary, Women in Legal Education Section, Association of American Law Schools (2026).
Samuel J. Levine, Committee Chair, Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship on Professional Responsibility Selection Committee, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Samuel J. Levine, re-elected to the Executive Committee of the Sections on Jewish Law, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Association of American Law Schools (2026).
Michael Lewyn, elected Chair of the State and Local Government Section, American Association of Law Schools (2026).
Marjorie A. Silver, appointed to status of Professor Emerita following her retirement from full-time service, Touro Law Center (Jan. 1, 2026).
Presentations:
Patricia Baia, moderator, Responsible Uses of AI: Writing the Research Paper, Center of Excellence Teaching and Learning (CETL), Touro University (Jan. 14, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, reviewer, New Voices in Administrative Law Program, AALS Section on Administrative Law, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, speaker, International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Justice Jackson and the Nuremberg Trials, Touro Law Center (January 27, 2026).
Tiffany C. Graham, speaker, 2025-2050: Legal Education in (What Was?) the United States, Critical Theories, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 8, 2026).
Deseriee A. Kennedy, speaker, Recognizing and Dealing with Cases Involving Claims of Domestic Violence, New Judges Seminar 2026, The New York State Judicial Institute (Jan. 9, 2026).
Deseriee A. Kennedy, speaker, Breakout Session – Criminal: Domestic Violence Orders of Protection in Criminal Cases, New Judges Seminar 2026, The New York State Judicial Institute (Jan. 9, 2026).
Samuel J. Levine, panel organizer, Pedagogy, Advising, and Beyond: Disabled Law Students, Disabled and Allied Law Student Associations (DALSAs), and Other Student Organizations Focused on Disability, Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Samuel J. Levine, panel organizer, Teaching and Writing About Antisemitism, Jewish Law, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 7, 2026).
Michael Lewyn, presenter, Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Program: Works-in-Progress: Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Panel, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Michael Lewyn, presenter, Federalist Society’s “Seven-Minute Speech” Panel, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Ann Nowak, Prompt Engineering – Tips and Techniques for Better Outcomes, Touro Law Center (Jan. 27, 2026).
Patricia E. Salkin, Land Use Hot Topic Webinar: AI and Land Use Planning, Section on State, Local, and Tribal Government, American Bar Association (Jan. 27, 2026).
Gabriel Weil, commentator, Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Program: Works-in-Progress: Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Panel, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 6, 2026).
Gabriel Weil, presenter, AI Legal Scholarship “Sh[AI]rk Tank”, AALS Open Source Program, 2026 AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 7, 2026).
Citations:
Rodger D. Citron, Nine Ways of Looking at Oklahoma City: An Essay on Sam Anderson’s Boom Town, 57 Tulsa L. Rev. 317 (2021), was cited in, Bridget J. Crawford, Seven Ways of Looking at the Climate Crisis, 43 Pace Envt’l L. Rev. 1 (2025).
Rodger D. Citron, The Federal Judge Who Sold Justice: A Review of Gary Stein’s Biography of Martin Manton, Verdict (Apr. 18, 2024), was cited in, Tania N. Valdez, What the “Good Moral Character” Test Reveals About Eugenics in Immigration Law, 105 B.U. L. Rev. 1491 (2025).
Eileen R. Kaufman, A Race By Any Other Name: The Interplay Between Ethnicity, National Origin and Race for Purposes of Section 1981, 28 Ariz. L. Rev. 259 (1986), Wing Ki Winki Chan, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 Protects Against Discrimination Based on U.S. Citizenship – Rajaram v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 105 F.4th 1179 (9th Cir. 2024), 58 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 493 (2025).
Richard Daniel Klein, Due Process Denied: Judicial Coercion in the Plea Bargaining Process, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. 1349 (2004), was cited in, Russell M. Gold, Look What You Made Me Do, 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1377 (2025).
Samuel J. Levine, Was Yosef on the Spectrum? Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources (2018), was cited in, Liliya T. Bakiyeva Wheatcraft, The Story of Yosef and the Pharaoh: A Masterclass on Empowerment of an Autistic Person, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1165 (2025).
Samuel J. Levine, Looking Beyond the Mercy/Justice Dichotomy: Reflections on the Complementary Roles of Mercy and Justice in Jewish Law and Tradition, 45 J. Cath. Legal Stud. 455 (2006), was cited in, Liron Hoch, Harmonized Alignment in Ethical Leadership: Synthesizing Maimonides’ Rational Allegiance and Dessler’s Giving Paradigm, 16 Ethics in Progress 196 (2025).
Michael Lewyn, The Criminalization of Walking, 2017 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1167 (2017), was cited in, Guha Krishnamurthi, Criminal Justice in the Data State, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 37 (2025).
Deborah Waire Post, Thomas W. Joo, Deborah Zalesne & Nancy Ota, Contacting Law (6th ed., 2023), was cited in, Erik Encarnacion, Section 1981 as Contract Law, 111 Va. L. Rev. 1605 (2025).
Patricia E. Salkin, Integrating Local Waterfront Revitalization Planning Into Local Comprehensive Planning and Zoning, 22 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 207 (2005), was cited in, Luke Jenkins, Local Waterfront Revitalization Program in New York, 26 NY Zoning L. & Prac. Rep. 1 (2026).
Patricia E. Salkin & Ashira Pelman Ostrow, Cooperative Federalism and Wind: A New Framework for Achieving Sustainability, 37 Hofstra L. Rev. 1049 (2009), was cited in, Hannah J. Wiseman, Anne Menefee, Seth Blumsack & Michael Helbing, Zoning the Subsurface, 72 UCLA L. Rev. 784 (2025).
Patricia E. Salkin, May it Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education (2022), was cited in, Nicholas W. Allard, Gathering and Planting Legal Acorns, 57 U. Tol. L. Rev. 185 (2025).
Marjorie A. Silver, The Uses and Abuses of Informal Procedures in Federal Cicil Rights Enforcement, 55 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 482 (1987), was cited in, Nicholas Constantinidis, Reasonable Cause for Fixing the EEOC: How Changes in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods Can Help the Commission Fulfill its Purpose, 42 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 467 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Supreme Court Defines “Deliberate Indifference,” 1994-1995 Sup. Ct. Preview, 159 (1994), was cited in, Gianna Dano, Syncing Strategies: The Call for Consistency in State-Created Danger Claims Involving Minor Students with Disabilities, 77 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 453 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz & Kris Markarian, Section 1983 Litigation (3d ed., 2014) was cited in, Peterson v. Nev. Cnty, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 509 (9th Cir., Jan. 8, 2026).
Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation: Claims and Defenses (4th ed., 2024), was cited in, Velazquez v. City of Philadelphia, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5445 (Eastern Dist. PA, Jan. 12, 2026).
Gabriel Weil, The Pros and Cons of California’s Proposed SB-1047 AI Safety Law, Lawfare (May 8, 2024), was cited in, David S. Rubenstein, Federalism & Algorithms, 67 Ariz. L. Rev. 979 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, Climate Nationalism, 36 Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. 271 (2025), was cited in, Genevieve Tokic, Environmental Tax Incentives: Lessons from the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (So Far), 43 Pace Envt’l L. Rev. 57 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, The Carbon Price Equivalent: A Metric for Comparing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Across Jurisdictions, 125 Dickinson L. Rev. 475 (2021) & Gabriel Weil, Individual Preferences in Policy Analysis: A Normative Framework, 50 Tex. Env’t L.J. 55 (2020), were cited in, Jeremy Kidd, We Cannot Afford Strong LawMacro, 94 UMKC L. Rev. 347 (2025).
Jolie Bodner Zangari, An Unprecedented Verdict: Expanding Parental Liability for Children’s Violent Crime, 39 Crim. Just. 7 (2024), was cited in, Dyllan Moreno Taxman, Killing Through Their Kids, 67 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 493 (2025).
Media:
Myra Berman, quoted, Grant Parpan, Legal Help in Suffolk County: Courts Will Offer Free Aid Jan. 23, in Memory of Martin Luther King Jr., Newsday (Jan. 7, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, host, The President’s Removal Power: A Discussion with Professor Ilan Wurman, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Jan. 14, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, quoted, James T. Madore, COVID-19 Fraudsters Targeted by Private Citizens Armed with Civil War-Era Law, Newsday (Jan. 23, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, quoted, James T. Madore, Marymount Manhattan College to Pay $8.4M to Settle Suit Alleging COVID-19-Era Fraud, Newsday (Jan. 22, 2026).
Rodger D. Citron, quoted, Jonnathan Oulla, Órdenes Ejecutivas del Primer Año de Trump 2.0 ya Superan las de Todo su Primer Mandato, Factchequeado (Jan. 20, 2026).
Mark Goldfeder, mentioned, Ariel Zilber, Prominent Jewish Civil Rights Group Demands Amazon Block Payments Tied to Francesca Albanese’s Anti-Israel Book, NY Post (Jan. 2, 2026).
Mark Goldfeder, quoted, Bill Berkowitz, Internal Dissent, High-Profile Resignations, and Donor Anxiety Have Shaken the Heritage Foundation, Dissident Voice (Jan. 9, 2026).
Mark Goldfeder, quoted, Luke Tress, Prominent US Jewish Lawyer Quits Heritage Foundation’s Antisemitism Task Force After Defense of Tucker Carlson, Times of Israel (Nov. 2, 2025).
Samuel J. Levine, profiled, Kirk Adams, From Courtrooms to Culture: Samuel J. Levine Brings Disability Rights & Inclusion to Touro Law on March 12th & 13th 2026, Dr. Kirk Adams Blog (Jan. 1, 2026).
Patricia E. Salkin, quoted, Karen Sloan, US Universities Turn to Lawyers as Leaders in Turbulent Year, Reuters (Jan. 29, 2026).
Thanks:
Rodger D. Citron, was thanked in, Lola-Marie Pyros, Evaluating Competitive Equality: The Department of Education’s Regulations and Impact on Title IX in Women’s Sports, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1343 (2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, was thanked in, Mackenzie Crabbe, The Forgotten Victims: A Case for Children’s Compensation Amidst Parental Wrongful Incarceration, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1269 (2025).
Ryan R. Nasim, was thanked in, Robert L. Coleman, America’s Turning Point: Religious & Free Speech Rights Transcend the Authority Public School Districts Think They Possess, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1211 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Mackenzie Crabbe, The Forgotten Victims: A Case for Children’s Compensation Amidst Parental Wrongful Incarceration, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1269 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, David J. Looney, Loopholes of Liberty: The Supreme Court’s Evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1301 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Lola-Marie Pyros, Evaluating Competitive Equality: The Department of Education’s Regulations and Impact on Title IX in Women’s Sports, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1343 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Lola-Marie Pyros, Celebrity Trademark Overload: The Rising Issue of Excessive Registrations and Reverse Confusion, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1447 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Robert L. Coleman, America’s Turning Point: Religious & Free Speech Rights Transcend the Authority Public School Districts Think They Possess, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1211 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, David J. Looney, AI-Driven Branding: Trademark Law Implications of Automated Creativity, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1411 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Harrison Stern, And the Oscar for Best “Original” Screenplay Goes to… ChatGPT: Does the Use of AI in Scriptwriting Devalue Hollywood Writers?, 40 Touro L. Rev. 1385 (2025).