May 2025
About
May 2025
Publications:
Rodger D. Citron, The Justice Who May Have Been Too Smart for the Job, Verdict (May 14, 2025).
Rodger D. Citron, Daniel Feldman, Rose Mary Bailly & Mehmet Konar-Steenberg, Learning Administrative Law, West Academic Publishing (2025).
Michael Lewyn, How to Teach a Course on Land Use and Anti-Jewish Discrimination, 19 FIU L. Rev. 859 (2025).
Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, A Wintery Mix, NYLJ (May 9, 2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Supreme Court Denies Fees for Preliminary Injunction in § 1983 Suits, NYLJ (May 2, 2025).
Gabriel Weil, The House Reconciliation Bill’s AI Preemption Clearly Violates the Byrd Rule, Lawfare (May 30, 2025).
Honors, Awards & Appointments:
Hon. Mark D. Cohen, 2025 Builder’s Award Recipient, With Liberty and Justice for All, Touro Law Center (Apr. 24, 2025).
Mark Goldfeder, appointed Director of Antisemitism Law Clinic, Touro Law Center (May 9, 2025).
John R. Quinn, Class Professor, Touro Law Center Class of 2025 (May 22, 2025).
Gabriel Weil, selected to participate in the 2nd Annual Burke Environmental Law Center Junior Faulty Workshop, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western University School of Law (May 21, 2025).
Presentations:
Melina A. Healey, presenter, Survey Says! A System for Clients to Provide Feedback and Improve the Program, 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Association of American Law Schools (Apr. 26, 2025).
Denise Marzano-Doty, presenter, Survey Says! A System for Clients to Provide Feedback and Improve the Program, 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Association of American Law Schools (Apr. 26, 2025).
Gabriel Weil, speaker, Roundtable on AI Liability, Ada Lovelace Institute (May 28, 2025).
Gabriel Weil, presenter, AI in Public Policy: Governing the Algorithmic Age – Balancing Innovation, Regulation, and Public Trust, World Salon and Columbia University (May 28, 2025).
Gabriel Weil, How Can and Should Insurance Influence the Law of AI and AI Itself?, Conference on AI, Insurance Law, and Regulation, Insurance Law Center, UConn Law and University of Minnesota Law School (May 30, 2025).
Citations:
Harold I. Abramson, Mediation Representation: Advocating as a Problem-Solver (3d 2013), was cited in, John Lande, The Art of Mediation Representation: Helping Clients Make Good Decisions, 43 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 71 (2025).
Rodger D. Citron, The Case of the Retired Justice: How Would Justice John Paul Stevens Have Voted in J. McIntyre Machinery Ltd. V. Nicastro, 63 S.C. L. Rev. 643 (2012), was cited in, Rory Bahadur, Reconceptualizing Ford as the Jurisprudential Vehicle Driving the Specific Personal Jurisdiction Map, 92 Tenn. L. Rev. 563 (2025).
Laura Gaston Dooley, National Juries for National Cases: Preserving Citizen Participation in Large-Scale Litigation, 83 N.Y.U L. Rev. 411 (2008), was cited in, Michael E. Solimine & Hailey E. Martin, Judicial Review of Settlements Under the Class Action Fairness Act and Deference Due to the Department of Justice and State Attorneys General, 51 J. Legis. 291 (2025).
Laura Gaston Dooley, Our Juries, Our Selves: The Power, Perception, and Politics of the Civil Jury, 80 Cornell L. Rev. 325 (1995), was cited in, Barbara O’Brien & Catherine M. Grosso, The Costs to Democracy of a Hegemonic Ideology of Jury Selection, 22 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 63 (2025).
Deseriee A. Kennedy, Consumer Discrimination: The Limitations of Federal Civil Rights Protection, 66 Mo. L. Rev. 275 (2001), was cited in, Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Banning Contractual Performance Discrimination, 43 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 482 (2025).
Samuel J. Levine, Religious Symbols and Religious Garb in the Constitution: Personal Values and Public Judgments, 66 Fordham L. Rev. 1505 (1998), was cited in, W. Cole Durham & Robert Smith, Religious Organizations and the Law (2d ed., May 2025 Update).
Jeffrey B. Morris, Federal Justice in the Second Circuit: A history of the United States Courts in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, 1787 to 1987 (1987), was cited in, Brad Baranowski & Emery G. Lee III, Remaking Rulemaking: Lessons from the History of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(B), 73 Clev. St. L. Rev. 617 (2025).
Deborah Waire Post, Power and the Morality of Grading – A Case Study and a Few Critical Thoughts on Grade Normalization, 65 UMCK L. Rev. 777 (1997), was cited in, L. Danielle Tully, Behind the Curve: Rethinking Norm-Referenced Grading in First-Year Legal Writing Courses, 29 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 1 (2025).
Deborah Waire Post, Outsider Jurisprudence and the “Unthinkable” Tale: Spousal Abuse and the Doctrine of Duress, 46 U. Haw. L. Rev. 469 (2004), was cited in, Almas Khan, Reconstituting the Canon: The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Judicial Opinion, 17 Wash. U. Juris. Rev. 247 (2025).
Patricia E. Salkin, New York Zoning Law & Practice (4th ed 2023), was cited in, Lyda Creus Molanphy, Mindful Lawyering: Incorporating Mindfulness into the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 15 St. Mary’s J. Legal Mal. & Ethics 163 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation (Kris Markarian ed., 3d, 2014), was cited in, Cooper Harrison, The Public Duty Doctrine & State Governmental Tort Liability: A Brief History and a Solution for the Current Paradigm, 55 U. Mem. L. Rev. 425 (2024).
Martin A. Schwartz, Erwin Chemerinsky & Karen Blum, Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs, 29 Touro L. Rev. 633 (2013), was cited in, Nancy Leong & Allyson Harris, Failure to Supervise as Municipal Custom, 2025 Wisc. L. Rev. 261 (2025).
Marjorie A. Silver et al., Stress, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and Other Emotional Realities in the Lawyer/Client Relationship, 19 Touro L. Rev. 847 (2004), was cited in, Brenda D. Gibson, Lawyers, Trauma, and Professional Well-Being: How the Legal Community Takes Back Its Mental Health, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 1 (2025).
Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Intelligence and Legal Education, 5 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 1173 (1999), was cited in, Camesha Little, Think, Reflect, Refine: Shaping the Modern Lawyer, 28 U.D.C. L. Rev. 30 (2025).
Marjorie A. Silver et al., Moving Toward a Competency Based Model for Fostering Law Students’ Relational Skills, 28 Clin. L. Rev. 369 (2022), was cited in, Melina A. Healey, Sharing the Tuna Platter: A Uniform System of Assessment for Clinical Education, 31 Clin. L. Rev. 275 (2025).
Sol Wachtler, After the Madness: A Judge’s Own Prison Memoir (1997), was cited in, Wynne Muscatine Graham, The Forgotten History of Prison Law: Judicial Oversight of Detention Facilities in the Nation’s Early Years, 138 Harv. L. Rev. 1715 (2025).
Sol Wachtler, Judging the Ninth Amendment, 59 Fordham L. Rev. 597 (1991), was cited in, Derek Warden, Ninth, 17 Wash. U. Juris. Rev. 325 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, Incentive Compatible Climate Change Mitigation: Moving Beyond the Pledge and Review Model, 42 Wm. & Mary Env’t L. Pol’y Rev. 923 (2018), was cited in, Daniel E. Walters, Tomorrow’s Climate Law, Today, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2121 (2025).
Media:
Mark Goldfeder, quoted, Adina Genn, Touro Launches Antisemitism Legal Clinic, Long Island Bus. News (May 9, 2025).
Richard Daniel Klein, quoted, Justin Rodriguez, Legal Experts: Self-Defense Angle Could be Challenging in DoorDash Shooting Case, Mid Hudson News (May 20, 2025).
Elena B. Langan, quoted, Adina Genn, Touro Launches Antisemitism Legal Clinic, Long Island Bus. News (May 9, 2025).
Thanks:
Laura Gaston Dooley, was thanked in, Tom Flesher, Variable Standards: How Many Uninjured Class Members Are Acceptable?, 40 Touro L. Rev. 287 (2025).
Melina A. Healey, was thanked in, Lauren Edwards, Locking Up Potential: Why Children Need Access to Special Education Services in Solitary, 40 Touro L. Rev. 225 (2025).
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Tom Flesher, Variable Standards: How Many Uninjured Class Members Are Acceptable?, 40 Touro L. Rev. 287 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, was thanked in, Daniel E. Walters, Tomorrow’s Climate Law, Today, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2121 (2025).