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April 2026

Publications:

Rodger D. Citron, Law, Memoir, and the Mystery of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Writing, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 10, 2026).

Patricia E. Salkin & Gabrielle Rosenblum, The Challenge to ABA Accreditation of Legal Education and its Impact on Licensing of Lawyers, 98 N.Y. St. B.J. 16 (2026).

Presentations:

Harold I. Abramson, Time-Pressured Negotiations: When Short on Time, What Short Cuts Can You Take and What Are the Risks?, Will Work for Food: The New Possibilities Hour (Apr. 30, 2026).  

Rodger D. Citron, co-organizer and moderator, Legal Rogues, Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir and the Law, CUNY Graduate Center Biography and Memoir Program and Touro Law Review (Mar. 27, 2026).

Rodger D. Citron, presenter, Supreme Court’s Decision in Trump v. Learning Resources, Inc., The Rule of Law in Our Changing Landscape, Nassau County Inn of Court (Apr. 21, 2026).

Rodger D. Citron, co-organizer and moderator, Outside In: Legal Biography Through Oral History, Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir and the Law, CUNY Graduate Center Biography and Memoir Program and Touro Law Review (Mar. 27, 2026).

Rodger D. Citron, co-organizer and moderator, Legal Biography as History, Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir and the Law, CUNY Graduate Center Biography and Memoir Program and Touro Law Review (Mar. 27, 2026).

Laura Gaston Dooley, panel chair, Threats to Institutions, Legal Culture, and Racial and Economic Justice, Constitutionalism, The Rule of Law and Democracy: A Retrospective on Jack Balkin’s Impact, New York Law School (Apr. 17, 2026).

Rebecca Feinberg, presenter, The Mother of All Dilemmas: Geriatric Pregnancy, Touro Interdisciplinary Institute for Healthy Aging (TIIHA) 2026 Symposium, Touro Law Center (Mar. 23, 2026).

Joan C. Foley, moderator, Technology and Therapeutics for Outcomes Optimization, Touro Interdisciplinary Institute for Healthy Aging (TIIHA) 2026 Symposium, Touro Law Center (Mar. 23, 2026).

Joan C. Foley, symposium co-organizer, Q&A Session with Keynote Speaker Greg Olsen, Touro Interdisciplinary Institute for Healthy Aging (TIIHA) 2026 Symposium, Touro Law Center (Mar. 23, 2026).

Samuel J. Levine, What Judaism Teaches Us About Belonging, Belonging Matters: A Jewish Community Conference on Neurodiversity, United Synagogue, London (Apr. 27, 2026).

Denise Marzano-Doty, moderator, Policies and Initiatives in Healthy Aging, Touro Interdisciplinary Institute for Healthy Aging (TIIHA) 2026 Symposium, Touro Law Center (Mar. 23, 2026).

Jorge Roig, panelist, Constitutional, Legal, and Social Issues Raised by Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, Multi-Bar Summit on Equity and Allyship, New York State Judicial Institute, White Plains, NY (Mar. 30, 2026).

Gabriel Weil, co-host and speaker, Applying the Abnormally Dangerous Activities Doctrine to Frontier AI Development and Deployment, Stanford Judicial Institute on AI (Mar. 6, 2026).

Gabriel Weil, presenter, Abnormally Dangerous Algorithms: Strict Liability at the AI Frontier, 5th Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence, Emory Law School, Atlanta (Apr. 9, 2026).

Gabriel Weil, speaker, AI Policy Workshop, AI Student Safety Team (AISST) and MIT AI Alignment (MAIA), Essex Woods, MA (Apr. 11, 2026).

Citations:

Richard Daniel Klein, The Emperor Gideon Has No Clothes: The Empty Promise of Constitutional Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel, 13 Hastings Const. L. Q. 625 (1986), was cited in, David A. Singleton, Collaborative Nullification: Bending or Ignoring the Law to Free the Over-Punished, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 633 (2026).

Samuel J. Levine & Bruce Green, Disciplinary Regulation of Prosecutors as a Remedy for Abuses of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 143 (2020), was cited in, Brief of Ethics Scholars as Amici Curiae Supporting Appellant Paul George and Supporting Reversal, In Re Paul M. George, Appellant, 2026 WL 952706 (3rd Cir., Apr. 07, 2026).

Samuel J. Levine, Teshuva: A Look at Repentance, Forgiveness and Atonement in Jewish Law and Philosophy and American Legal Thought, 27 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1677 (2000), was cited in, Shima Baradaran Baughman, Systemic Absolution, 99 S. Cal. L. Rev. 41 (2025).

Samuel J. Levine, The Supreme Court’s Hands-Off Approach to Religious Questions in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, 24 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 276 (2022), was cited in, Rose Corcoran, Free Exercise: An Insufficient Defense for Faith-Based Organization to Protect Their Federal Funding, 39 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 201 (2025).

Samuel J. Levine & Bruce A. Green, Disciplinary Regulation of Prosecutors as a Remedy for Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis, 14 Ohio St. Crim. L.J. 143 (2016) & Samuel J. Levine, The Potential Utility of Disciplinary Regulation as a Remedy for Abuses of Prosecutorial Discretion, 12 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2016), were cited in, Scott Ingram, The Supreme Court vs. Federal Prosecutors, 74 Clev. St. L. Rev. 177 (2026).

Samuel J. Levine, Taking Ethics Codes Seriously: Broad Ethics Provisions and Unenumerated Ethical Obligations in a Comparative Hermeneutic Framework, 77 Tul. L. Rev. 527 (2003), was cited in, Jon J. Lee, Sanctioning Lawyer-Criminals, 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1757 (2026).

Samuel J. Levine, Law and Redemption: Expounding and Expanding Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative, 34 Yale J. L. & Hum. 253 (2023), was cited in, Shahar Shalom Yadin, The Paradigm of Robert Cover’s Nomos and the Value of Normative Discourse: Application with References to Papua New Guinea, Griffith L. Rev. (Apr. 2026).

Samuel J. Levine, Capital Punishment and Religious Arguments: An Intermediate Approach, 9 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 179 (2000), was cited in, Cat Gassiot, A Theological Treatment of Compassionate Release, 36 Yale J. L. & Hum. 726 (2026).

Michael Lewyn, Character Counts: The “Character of the Government Action” in Regulatory Takings Actions, 40 Seton Hall L. Rev. 597 (2010), was cited in, Timothy M. Harris, The Takings Clause and the Environment, 99 St. John’s L. Rev. 543 (2026).

Taurus Myhand, Once the Jury Sees It, They Can’t Unsee It: The Challenge Trial Judges Face When Authenticating Video Evidence in the Age of Deepfakes, 29 Widener L. Rev. 171 (2023), was cited in, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky & Michal Lavi, Seeing is Believing? Deepfakes in Financial Markets, 44 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 55 (2026).

Deborah Waire Post & Louise Harmon, Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching (1996), was cited in, Sarah J. Schendel, “No Further Discussion Necessary”: Compliance as Professionalism in Legal Education, 94 Fordham L. Rev. 1435 (2026).

Patricia E. Salkin, Am. Law Zoning (5th ed., 2025), was cited in, 76 Route 6 Holdings
Inc., v. Town of Yorktown, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71964 (SDNY, Mar. 30, 2026).

Patricia E. Salkin, Cooperative Federalism and Climate Change: New Meaning to “Think Globally – Act Locally,” 40 Env’t L. Rep. 10562 (2010), was cited in, Anthony J. Luppino, “Smart” Cities and Due Care with Emerging Technologies, 24 U. N.H. l. Rev. 439 (2026).

Patricia E. Salkin, N.Y. Zoning L. & Prac. (5th ed. 2024), was cited in, Justin R. Ochs, Comparing Microgrids with Nuclear Energy: Which is Better to Catapult New York Towards its Green Energy Future?, 66 Nat. Resources J. 44 (2026).

Thomas A. Schweitzer, Hate Speech on Campus and the First Amendment: Can They Be Reconciled?, 27 Conn. L. Rev. 493 (1995), was cited in, Mark C. Niles, Student Protests and “Fighting Words”: Critical Race Theory and the Evolution of Hate Speech Codes on College Campuses, 88 Alb. L. Rev. 489 (2025).

Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Intelligence and Legal Education, 5 Psych. Pub. Pol’y & L. 1173 (1999), was cited in, Dyane L. O’Leary, Disconnected Connection, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 561 (2026).

Media:

Rodger D. Citron, host, Professor Peter Shane on The Major Questions, Doctrine, the Tariffs Case, and the Civil Service, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Apr. 23, 2026).

Rodger D. Citron, host, The Civil Rights History of New York Times v. Sullivan, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Apr. 30, 2026).

Samuel J. Levine, host, Rawan Osman: “I Was Taught I Hate Jews – Then I Met One”, Touro Talks (Apr. 11, 2026).

Samuel J. Levine, mentioned, Yonatan Sindel, How Hezbollah Ally Learned to Love Jewish State, Jewish Star (Apr. 22, 2026).

Jolie Bodner Zangari, quoted, Jack Panyard, When Parent’s Pay for a Child’s Violence, Christianity Today (Apr. 9, 2026).

Thanks:

Rodger D. Citron, was thanked in, Lauren R. Roth, The Fiduciary Game, 101 Ind. L.J. 489 (2026).

Irene McDermott, was thanked in, Patricia E. Salkin & Gabrielle Rosenblum, The Challenge to ABA Accreditation of Legal Education and its Impact on Licensing of Lawyers, 98 N.Y. St. B.J. 16 (2026).

Erin Marine-Mancuso, was thanked in, Patricia E. Salkin & Gabrielle Rosenblum, The Challenge to ABA Accreditation of Legal Education and its Impact on Licensing of Lawyers, 98 N.Y. St. B.J. 16 (2026).

John R. Quinn, was thanked in, Lauren R. Roth, The Fiduciary Game, 101 Ind. L.J. 489 (2026).

Laura Ross, was thanked in, Patricia E. Salkin & Gabrielle Rosenblum, The Challenge to ABA Accreditation of Legal Education and its Impact on Licensing of Lawyers, 98 N.Y. St. B.J. 16 (2026).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Lauren R. Roth, The Fiduciary Game, 101 Ind. L.J. 489 (2026).

 

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