About

May 2024

Publications:

Rodger D. Citron & Laura Gaston Dooley, Of Mass Torts, Multidistrict Litigation, and Collateral Estoppel: Notes on Justice Thomas’s Dissent from the Denial of Certiorari in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Abbott, Verdict.

Rodger D. Citron, Foreword: The Life, Work & Legacy of Felix Frankfurter, the Justice Known as “FF”, 39 Touro L. Rev. 765 (2024).

Laura Gaston Dooley & Rodger D. Citron, Of Mass Torts, Multidistrict Litigation, and Collateral Estoppel: Notes on Justice Thomas’s Dissent from the Denial of Certiorari in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Abbott, Verdict.

Rebecca Feinburg, Transcript: The Future of IVF Post Dobbs, 37 J.L. & Health 35 (2023).

Tal Kastner, Emojis as Contract Acceptance?, 2 Transatlantic L.J. 7 (2024).

Michael Lewyn, Is Zoning Unconstitutional?, Market Urbanism (May 7, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, Review: Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis. Market Urbanism (May 27, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, Two Cheers for the Planners’ Pledge, Planetizen (May 8, 2024).  

Michael Lewyn, A Comic Book About Housing, Planetizen (May 22, 2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, The Social Media State Action Decision, NYLJ (May 6, 2024).

 

Honors, Awards & Appointments:

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, appointed co-chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (2024).

 

Presentations:

Rebecca Feinburg, Legal Classification on the Embryo, Annual Conference, New England Fertility Society (May 11, 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, moderator, Antisemitism on College Campuses: Professors & Students Speak Out. Touro Talks and the Jewish Law Institute.

Ann L. Nowak, co-presenter, Legal Writing Support: The Eureka Moment, 2024 Empire State Legal Writing Conference, Fordham Law School (May 23, 2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, State and Local Government Ethics, State and Local Government Section Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Pace Law School (May 3, 2024).

 

Media:

Joan C. Foley, interviewed, Zaena Ballon, Spotlight on Sections: Aging and the Law, Interview with Tara Sklar and Joan Foley, Spring 2024 Newsletter, Association of American Law Schools.

Rebecca Feinberg, interviewed, Health by Law: Embryonic Personhood in Alabama, AMA J. Ethics Podcast (May, 2024).

Richard Daniel Klein, quoted, Alex Kliment, What the Trump Trial Circus is Missing, GZero (Apr. 18, 2024).

Richard Daniel Klein, interviewed, Trump on Trial: Both Sides Rest in Hush Money Case Without Trump Testifying, CNN Int’l (May 21, 2024).

Richard Daniel Klein, interviewed, Trump on Trial: Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Expected to Testify Monday, CNN Bus. (May 10, 2024).

Elena B. Langan, interviewed, Angie Carpenter, Supervisor Spotlight, Town of Islip (May 1, 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, mentioned, Ed Weintrob, Things Are Pretty Awful: US College Trauma is the New Jewish Reality, Jewish Star (May 22, 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, mentioned, Chaim Yehuda Meyer, Touro University Hosts Panel on Antisemitism on College Campuses: Professors & Students Speak Out, Flatbush Jewish J. (May 16, 2024).

 

Citations:

Hal I. Abramson, Crossing Borders into New Ethical Territory: Ethical Challenges When Mediating Cross Culturally, 49 S. Tex. L. Rev. 921 (2008), was cited in, Mary B. Culbert, Proposal: A New Unified Canon of Mediator Ethics, 30 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 1 (2024).

Rodger D. Citron, Herman Melville’s Billy Budd: Why this Classic Law and Literature Novel Endures and is Still Relevant Today, 36 Touro L. Rev. 17 (2020), was cited in, Joseph Hummel, Music of the Law: A Wigmorian Playlist for a Modern Era, 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 301 (2024).

Tal Kastner & Ethan J. Leib, Contract Creep, 107 Geo. L. J. 1277 (2019), was cited in, Ethan J. Leib, Interpretive Divergence in the New York Court of Appeals, 50 J. Legis. 387 (2024).

Deseriee A. Kennedy, Children, Parents & the State: The Construction of a New Family Ideology, 26 Berkley J. Gender L. & Just. 78 (2011), was cited in, Danielle Sparber Bukacheski, Note, Considering Caretakers: An Explicit Argument for Downward Departures During Federal Sentencing Mitigation for Caretakers of Children, 78 U. Miami L. Rev. 917 (2024).

Richard Daniel Klein, The Role of Defense Counsel in Ensuring a Fair Justice System, 36 Champion 38 (2012), was cited in, Michael P. Heiskell, From the President: When Trump is on Trial, so is the Rule of Law, 48 Champion 5 (2024).

Richard Daniel Klein, The Emperor Gideon Has No Clothes: The Empty Promise of the Constitutional Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel, 13 Hastings Const. L.Q. 625 (1986), was cited in, David R. Katner, “Normal”, 33 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 427 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Restricting the Right of Correspondence in the Prison Context: Thornburgh v. Abbott and Its Progeny, 4 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 891 (1994), was cited in, Eric T. Kasper, Checkmate: Why the First Amendment Protects Prison Inmates’ Right to Play Correspondence Chess Using Algebraic Notation, 34 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 1 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Foreword, 38 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1267 (2012), & Samuel J. Levine, Foreword, Symposium: Billy Joel & The Law, 32 Touro L. Rev. 1 (2016), were cited in, Joseph Hummel, Music of the Law: A Wigmorian Playlist for a Modern Era, 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 301 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine & Bruce A. Green, Disciplinary Regulation of Prosecutors as a Remedy for Abuses of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Normative Analysis, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 143 (2016), was cited in, R. Michael Cassidy, Unleashing Rule 5.1 to Combat Prosecutorial Misconduct, 102 Or. L. Rev. 269 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Legal Theory and American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons and Contrasts, 24 Hastings Const. L.Q. 441 (1997); Samuel J. Levine, An Introduction to Legislation in Jewish Law, with References to the American Legal System, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 916 (1998); & Samuel J. Levine, Capital Punishments and Religious Arguments: An Intermediate Approach, 9 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 179 (2000), were cited in, Jonathan Hasson & Abraham Tennenbaum, Harmonizing Divergent Purposes of Punishment in Jewish Criminal Law: Integrating Contemporary Religious, Criminological, and Legal Perspectives, 38 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 487 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Interpreting Ethics Rules, 51 Pepp. L. Rev. 219 (2024), was cited in, Renee Jefferson, Recommended Reading, Legal Ethics Roundup (May 13, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, When Scalia Wasn’t Such an Originalist, 32 Touro L. Rev. 747 (2106), was cited in, Michael Vitiello & Daniel Croxall, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Due Process and Strange Bedfellows, 89 Mo. L. Rev. 217 (2024).

Michael Lewyn, How to Limit Gerrymandering, 45 Fla. L. Rev. 403 (1993), was cited in, Joel Heller, The Labor Gerrymander, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 401 (2024).

Jeffrey B. Morris, Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuits (2001), was cited in, Andrew Hammond, The D.C. Circuit as a Conseil D’État, 61 Harv. J. on Legis. 81 (2024).

Ann L. Nowak, Five Reasons Law Students Shouldn’t Rely on ChatGPT to Write for Them, Nat’l Jurist (Mar. 13, 2023), was cited in, Joe Regalia, From Briefs to Bytes: How Generative AI is Transforming Legal Writing and Practice, 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 193 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin & Amy Lavine, The Genesis of RLUIPA and Federalism: Evaluating the Creation of a Federal Statutory Right and its Impact on Local Government, 40 Urb. Law. 195 (2008), was cited in, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church by and through Diocese of Oregon v. City of Brookings, 2024 WL 1303123 (D. Or., Mar. 27, 2024).

Patricia E. Salkin & John R. Nolan, Land Use in a Nutshell (1st ed., 2006), was cited in, Thomas J. Albertson, Sustainable Housing in Three Steps Including Heat Island Overlay Zones, 39 J. Env’t L. & Litig. 289 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Am. L. Zoning (5th ed., 2024), was cited in, Hunter v. Page Cnty., 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 11949 (May 17, 2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Am. L. Zoning (5th ed., 2008), was cited in, Consolidated Brief of Appellee, Bienz v. Board of Cnty Commissioners, Cnty of Albany, Wyoming, 2024 WL 2187493 (Wyo., May 3, 2024).

Theodore Silver & Jean E. Rowe, The Jurisprudence of Action and Inaction in the Law of Tort: Solving the Puzzle of Nonfeasance and Misfeasance from the Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries, 33 Duq. L. Rev. 807 (1995), was cited in, Molefi McIntosh, The Importance of Language in the Context of Heirs’ Property Policymaking, 49 ACTEC L. J. 195 (2024).

Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Competence, Multicultural Lawyering and Race, 3 Fla. Coastal L.J. 219 (2001), was cited in, Sari Graben & Page MacRae, Difficulties with Legal Design and E-Modules: Teaching Emotional and Cultural Competence to Law Students, 2024 Can. Legal Educ. Ann. Rev. 1 (2024).

Marjorie A. Silver et al., 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, Chiara Philips, Dangerous Discretion: Making Asylum Relief Mandatory Considering External Effects on Judges, 8 How. Hum. & C.R. L. Rev. 107 (2024). 

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation (3d ed., 2014), was cited in, Sarah L. Swan, Public Duties for the New City, 122 Mich. L. Rev. 315 (2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Karen Blum & Erwin Chemerinsky, Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs, 29 Touro L. Rev. 633 (2013), was cited in, Nancy Leong, Constitutional Accountability Through State Tort Law, 2023 Wis. L. Rev. 1707 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, Karen Blum & Erwin Chemerinsky, Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs, 29 Touro L. Rev. 633 (2013), was cited in, Anne E. Ralph, Qualified Immunity, Legal Narrative, and the Denial of Knowledge, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 1317 (2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation from the October 2006 Term, 23 Touro L. Rev. 827 (2008), was cited in, Savannah G. Plaisted, The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Prison Rape: Why the Prison Rape Elimination Act Failed and How to Fix It, 19 U. Mass. L. Rev. 128 (2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation Claims & Defenses (4th ed. 2019), was cited in, Brannen v. Dekalb County, Georgia, 2019 WL 13522403 (N.D. Ga., Atl. Div., June 10, 2019).

Theodore Silver, One Hundred Yeats of Harmful Error: The Historical Jurisprudence of Medical Malpractice, 1992 Wis. L. Rev. 1193 (1992), was cited in, Jesse Klein, Advanced Practice Nurse Liability in an Age of Increased Independence, 57 UIC L. Rev. 891 (2024).

Sol Wachtler, Brett Kavanaugh is an Originalist, NYLJ (Sept. 20, 2019), was cited in, Michael L. Smith, Disingenuous Interpretation, 93 Miss. L. J. 349 (2024).

Sol Wachtler, Brett Kavanaugh is an Originalist, NYLJ (Sept. 20, 2019), was cited in, Michael L. Smith, Abandoning Original Meaning, 86 Alb. L. Rev. 43 (2023).

Peter Zablotsky, After the Fall: The Employer’s Duty to Accommodate Employee Religious Practices Under Title VII After Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook, 50 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 513 (1989), was cited in, Natalie C. Rhoads, Groff v. DeJoy and Title VII’s “Undue Hardship” Standard, 18 Liberty U. L. Rev. 535 (2024).

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