Faculty Accomplishments - October 2018
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October 2018
Publications:
Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, Highlights and Notable Decisions from Summer 2018, N.Y.L.J. (Oct. 12, 2018).
Samuel J. Levine, WAS YOSEF ON THE SPECTRUM? UNDERSTANDING JOSEPH THROUGH TORAH, MIDRASH, AND CLASSICAL JEWISH SOURCES (Urim Publications, 2018).
Michael Lewyn, Engineering Standards in Highway Design Litigation, in ENGINEERING STANDARDS FOR FORENSIC APPLICATION (Academic Press 2018).
Michael Lewyn, The American Community Survey, Land Use and Transportation, 47 REAL EST. L.J. 201 (Fall 2018).
Michael Lewyn, Response to “Steelmanning the NIMBYs”, MARKET URBANISM (Oct. 7, 2018).
Michael Lewyn, Community-Based Planning: A Case Study, PLANETIZEN (Oct. 5, 2018).
Michael Lewyn, The Lincoln Park Story, PLANETIZEN (Oct. 26, 2018).
Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Taser Cases (Part I), N.Y.L.J. (Oct. 30, 2018).
Awards:
Harry Ballan, Academic Excellence Award, PRBA Annual Black Tie Award Dinner and Dance Gala, Puerto Rican Bar Association, Oct. 12, 2018.
Leif Rubinstein, Pro Bono Foundation Award of Distinction, Suffolk County Bar Association, Oct. 17, 2018.
Presentations:
Patricia Salkin, CLE: How Climate Change Will Affect Non-Environmental Law Practice, New York City Bar Association, Oct. 26, 2018.
Marjorie Silver, moderated & organized panel, Building Bridges among Parallel Movements, Fostering Human Connection in an Era of Alienation Conference of the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics (PISLAP), Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2018.
Media:
Richard Klein, was quoted in, Lucia Graves, Harvey Weinstein: Could #MeToo's Highest-Profile Case Be Crumbling?, THE GUARDIAN (Oct. 28, 2018).
Citations:
Samuel J. Levine, A Critique of Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach to Religion, 91 NOTRE DAME L. REV. ONLINE 26 (2015), was cited in, David Orentlicher, Law, Religion, and Health Care, 8 UC IRVINE L. REV. 617 (2018).
Samuel J. Levine, Rethinking the Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach to Questions of Religious Practice and Belief, 25 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 85 (1997), was cited in, Shaakirrah R. Sanders, Religious Healing Exemptions and the Jurisprudential Gap Between Substantive Due Process and Free Exercise Rights, 8 UC IRVINE L. REV. 633 (2018).
Samuel J. Levine, An Introduction to Self-Incrimination in Jewish Law, with Application to the American Legal System: A Psychological and Philosophical Analysis, 28 LOY. L.A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 257 (2006) & Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Legal Theory and American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons and Contrasts, 24 Hastings Const. L.Q. 441 (1997), were cited in, Larry A. DiMatteo, Unframing Legal Reasoning: A Cyclical Theory of Legal Evolution, 27 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L.J. 483 (2018).
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 (1999), were cited in, Michelle Kariyeva, Chained Against Her Will: What A Get Means for Women Under Jewish Law, 34 TOURO L. REV. 757 (2018).
Samuel J. Levine, Capital Punishment and Religious Arguments: An Intermediate Approach, 9 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 179 (2000), was cited in, Omri Ben-Zvi, The Unavailability of Religious Arguments, 54 IDAHO L. REV. 703 (2018).
Samuel J. Levine, Taking Prosecutorial Ethics Seriously: A Consideration of the Prosecutor's Ethical Obligation to Seek Justice in a Comparative Analytical Framework, 41 HOUSTON L. REV. 1337, was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Judaism eJournal.
Samuel J. Levine, is currently listed in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.
Melissa H. Luckman et al., Three Years Later Sandy Survivors Remain Homeless, 32 TOURO L. REV. 313 (2016), was cited in, Donovan Finn, John Travis Marshall, Superstorm Sandy at Five: Lessons on Law As Catalyst and Obstacle to Long-Term Recovery Following Catastrophic Disasters, 48 ENVTL. L. REP. NEWS & ANALYSIS 10494 (2018).
Tracy L McGaugh (Norton), Laptops in the Classroom: Pondering the Possibilities, 14 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 163 (Spring 2006), Nikos Harris, The Risks of Technology in the Law Classroom: Why the Next Great Development in Legal Education Might Be Going Low-Tech, 51 U.B.C. L. REV. 773 (2018).
Meredith R. Miller, Contract Law, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism, 75 MO. L. REV. 493 (2010), was cited in, Larry A. DiMatteo, Unframing Legal Reasoning: A Cyclical Theory of Legal Evolution, 27 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L.J. 483 (2018).
Deborah Waire Post, Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Law and Literature as Cultural Critique, 44 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 1247 (2000), was cited in, Elizabeth A. Janicki, Contracts as Speech Acts: Bringing Jakobson to the Conversation, 107 GEO. L.J. 201 (2018).
Patricia E. Salkin, Sustainability at the Edge: The Opportunity and Responsibility of Local Governments to Most Effectively Plan for Natural Disaster Mitigation, 38 ELR 10158 (Mar. 2008) & Patricia E. Salkin, Effective Disaster Mitigation Depends Upon Well-Coordinated Land Use Planning and Zoning, 34 REAL EST. L.J. 108 (2005), were cited in, Donovan Finn, John Travis Marshall, Superstorm Sandy at Five: Lessons on Law As Catalyst and Obstacle to Long-Term Recovery Following Catastrophic Disasters, 48 ENVTL. L. REP. NEWS & ANALYSIS 10494 (2018).
Patricia E. Salkin, Sustainability at the Edge: The Opportunity and Responsibility of Local Governments to Most Effectively Plan for Natural Disaster Mitigation, 38 ENVT’L L.R. 10158 (2008), was cited in, Sarah J. Adams-Schoen, The WUI, the Waterfront, and the Wicked Problem of Planning and Zoning for Climate Resilience, 41 ZONING & PLANNING L. REP. 1 (Oct. 2018).
Patricia E. Salkin, The Quiet Revolution and Land Use, 45 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 253 (2012) & Patricia E. Salkin, Supersizing Small Town America: Using Regionalism to Right-Size Big Box Retail, 6 VT. J. ENVTL. L. 48 (2005), were cited in, Blake Hudson, Relative Administrability, Conservatives, and Environmental Regulatory Reform, 48 ENVTL. L. REP. NEWS & ANALYSIS 10733 (2018).
Martin A. Schwartz, Attorney's Fees in Civil Rights Cases-October 2009 Term, 27 TOURO. L. REV. 113 (2011), was cited in, Richard Henry Seamon, Supreme Court Supremacy in A Time of Turmoil: James v. City of Boise, 50 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 175 (2017).
Martin A. Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION (3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Rahimi v. Sweat, No. 17-4167, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 29012 (10th Cir. Oct. 16, 2018).
Martin A. Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION CLAIMS AND DEFENSES (4th ed.), was cited in, Royce de R. Barondes, Contumacious Responses to Firearms Legislation (Leosa) Balancing Federalism Concerns, 56 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (2018).