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April 2020

Publications:

Ilene S. Cooper, Cutting It Short: Motions For Summary Judgment, N.Y.L.J. (Apr. 6, 2020).

Eileen Kaufman (with: Claudia Angelos; Mary Lu Bilek; Carol L. Chomsky; Andrea A Curcio; Marsha Griggs; Joan W. Howarth; Deborah Jones Merritt; Patricia E. Salkin & Judith Welch Wegner), Licensing Lawyers in a Pandemic: Proving Competence, HARVARD L. REV. BLOG (Apr. 7, 2020).

Michael Lewyn, Does Dispersion Help?, PLANETIZEN (Apr. 14, 2020).

Michael Lewyn, A Cheer (Or Maybe Even Two) For Redundancy, PLANETIZEN (Apr. 6, 2020).

Michael Lewyn, Disparate Impact Won't Save Us From Exclusionary Zoning, PLANETIZEN (Mar. 30, 2020).

Michael Lewyn, How We Got Here, PLANETIZEN (Mar. 7, 2020).

Patricia E. Salkin (with: Claudia Angelos; Mary Lu Bilek; Carol L. Chomsky; Andrea A Curcio; Marsha Griggs; Joan W. Howarth; Eileen Kaufman; Deborah Jones Merritt & Judith Welch Wegner), Licensing Lawyers in a Pandemic: Proving Competence, HARVARD L. REV. BLOG (Apr. 7, 2020).

Patricia E. Salkin (with Marsha Griggs & Deborah Jones Merritt), Courts Should Look To 3 Bar Exam Alternatives During Crisis, LAW360 (April 23, 2020).

Martin A. Schwartz, Seventh and Ninth Circuits Decide Important ‘Heck’ Issues, N.Y.L.J. (Apr. 28, 2020).


Presentations:

Jack Graves, presenter, Insights from the Experts: Using Videos in an Online Setting, Peer-to-Peer Training Webinar Series, Touro College (Apr. 1, 2020).

Samuel J. Levine, presenter, Special Education & the Law: Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach, Touro Graduate School of Education (Apr. 21, 2020).

Samuel J. Levine, presenter, Jewish Legal theory and American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons and Contrasts, Comparison of American and Talmudic Law Class, Stern College for Women (Apr. 27, 2020).

Meredith R. Miller, panelist, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Effective Pedagogy for an Online Learning Environment, Peer-to-Peer Training Webinar Series, Touro College (Apr. 2, 2020).


Awards:

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus (with Ann Nowak), was awarded a $125k grant by AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence for their research project, Identification and Remediation of Reading Disfluency as a Key to Bar Passage for At-Risk Populations (Apr. 8, 2020).

Ann Nowak (with Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus), was awarded a $125k grant by AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence for their research project, Identification and Remediation of Reading Disfluency as a Key to Bar Passage for At-Risk Populations (Apr. 8, 2020).


Media:

Melina Healey, was quoted in, Stephanie Francis Ward, For Some Law Students, Clinic Work During COVID-19 Feels More Real Than Ever Before, ABA J. (Apr. 28, 2020).

Meredith R. Miller, was interviewed in, Perspectives: Coronavirus and the Legal Profession, LGBT BAR NY PODCAST (Apr. 8, 2020).

Patricia E. Salkin, was quoted in, Karen Sloan, Amid More Bar Exam Delays, Push for Diploma Privilege Grows, N.Y.L.J. (Apr. 3, 2020).


Citations:

Richard Klein, The Relationship of the Court and Defense Counsel: The Impact of Competent Representation and Proposals for Reform, 29 B.C. L. Rev. 531 (1988), was cited in, Michael L. Perlin, Esq. et. al., "A World of Steel-Eyed Death": An Empirical Evaluation of the Failure of the Strickland Standard to Ensure Adequate Counsel to Defendants with Mental Disabilities Facing the Death Penalty, 53 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 261 (2019).

Samuel J. Levine, Emerging Applications of Jewish Law in American Legal Scholarship: An Introduction, 23 J. L & RELIGION 43 (2007–2008), was cited in, Assaf Likhovski, Trends in the Study of the Intellectual History of Jewish Law, 32 DINÉ YISRAEL 227 (2018) (Hebrew version just posted on SSRN).

Samuel J. Levine, A Look at the Establishment Clause Through the Prism of Religious Perspectives: Religious Majorities, Religious Minorities, and Nonbelievers, 87 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 775 (2012), was cited in, Adrienne E. Hacker-Daniels, Is it too Heavy of a Constitutional Cross to Bear? Making Sense of the Decision in American Legion v. American Humanist Association, FIRST AMENDMENT STUDIES (2020).

Michael Lewyn, Does Suburbia Promote Fertility?, PLANETIZEN (Nov. 7, 2016), was cited in, Michael N. Widener, Cubular Corridors: Merging Vertical Urbanism with Accessibility Initiatives, 44 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 87 (2019).

Michael Lewyn, New Urbanist Zoning for Dummies, 58 ALA. L. REV. 257 (2006); Michael Lewyn (& Judd Schechtman), No Parking Anytime: The Legality and Wisdom of Maximum Parking and Minimum Density Requirements, 54 WASHBURN L.J. 285 (2015);  Michael Lewyn, How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City Without Zoning), 50 WAYNE L. REV. 1171 (2004); and Michael Lewyn, What Would Coase Do? (About Parking Regulation), 22 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 89 (2010), were cited in, Sara C. Bronin, Comprehensive Rezonings, 2019 B.Y.U. L. REV. 725 (2019).

John Linarelli, The Economics of Uniform Laws and Uniform Lawmaking, 48 WAYNE L. REV. 1387 (2003), was cited in, Ray Worthy Campbell, Personal Jurisdiction and National Sovereignty, 77 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 97 (2020).

John Linarelli (with Sue Arrowsmith & Don Wallace Jr.), REGULATING PUBLIC PROCREMENT: NATIONAL ADN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (Kluwer 2000), was cited in, Baakile Motshegwa & Thekiso Molokwane, Assessing the Suitability of the Build Operate and Transfer Option to Botswana's Public Private Partnership Programme, Conference: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GOVERNANCE AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES (Oct. 2019).

Meredith R. Miller, Party Sophistication and Value Pluralism in Contract, 29 TOURO L. REV. 659 (2013), was cited in, Susan M. Chesler & Karen J. Sneddon, From Clause A to Clause Z: Narrative Transportation and the Transactional Reader, 71 S.C. L. REV. 247 (2019).

Jorge R. Roig, Decoding First Amendment Coverage of Computer Source Code in the Age of YouTube, Facebook, and the Arab Spring, 68 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 319 (2012), was cited in, Robert D. Edelson, The 3D Blueprint File Dilemma: The Inherent Dangers of Digital Creative Expression and A Techno-Logical Approach to Regulation, 24 U.S.F. INTELL. PROP. & TECH. L.J. 153 (2019).

Patricia E. Salkin, The Kelo-Effect in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Assessing the Impact of Kelo in the Tri-State Region (Albany Law Sch., Working Paper No. 09-06, 2013), available at https://.ssrn.com/abstract=1028893 & 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. L. 195 (2008), were cited in, Dwight Merriam, Rose Mary Knick and the Story of Chicken Little, 47 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 639 (2020).

Patricia E. Salkin, From Euclid to Growing Smart: The Transformation of the American Local Land Use Ethic into Local Land Use and Environmental Controls, 20 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 109 (2002); Patricia Salkin, The Key to Unlocking the Power of Small Scale Renewable Energy: Local Land Use Regulation, 27 J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. 339 (2012); and Patricia E. Salkin, Cooperative Federalism and Climate Change: New Meaning to “Think Globally-Act Locally,” 40 ENVTL. L. REP. 10562 (2010), were cited in, Sara C. Bronin, Comprehensive Rezonings, 2019 B.Y.U. L. REV. 725 (2019).

Patricia E. Salkin & Eileen Kaufman, Kaufman (with Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Deborah Jones Merritt & Judith Welch Wegner), The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action (Mar. 22, 2020), was cited in, The Law School Class of 2020, SIMPLE JUSTICE BLOG (Apr. 1, 2020).

Martin A. Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION CLAIMS AND DEFENSES (4th ed. 2018) & Martin A. Schwartz, Fundamentals of Section 1983 Litigation, 17 TOURO L. REV. 525 (2001), were cited in, Karen Lott, A Functional Approach to Municipal Policymaker Determinations in Section 1983, 23 U. PA. J.L. & SOC. CHANGE 1 (2020).

Martin Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION (3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Dwight Merriam, Rose Mary Knick and the Story of Chicken Little, 47 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 639 (2020).

Martin Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION (3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Ryan E. Johnson, Supervisors Without Supervision: Colon, Mckenna, and the Confusing State of Supervisory Liability in the Second Circuit, 77 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 457 (2020).

Martin Schwartz (& John Kirklin), SECTION 1983 LITIGATION: CLAIMS DEFENSES AND FEES (2d ed. 1991), was cited in, Stauffer v. City of Newberg, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64992 (D. Or. Mar. 20, 2020).

Martin A. Schwartz, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION: CLIAMS DEFENSES (2013), was cited in, Sanchez v. Baker, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75191 (D.N.M. Apr. 29, 2020).

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, Charles A. Sullivan, Retaliation and Requesting Religious Accommodation, 70 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 381 (2019).


Downloads:

Hal Abramson, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

Richard Klein, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

Samuel J. Levine, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

Samuel J. Levine, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads.

Michael Lewyn, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

Michael Lewyn, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads.

John Linarelli, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

John Linarelli, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads.

Patricia E. Salkin, is currently in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

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