August 2025
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August 2025
Publications:
Harold I. Abramson, Peter Phillips & Zachary Calo, The Singapore Convention on Mediation: A New Framework for International Settlement Enforcement, 26 Currents: J. Int’l Econ. L. 19 (2025).
Samuel J. Levine, Disability Rights and Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Conference - Foreword, 40 Touro L. Rev. 677 (2025).
Samuel J. Levine, A Brief Look at Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism Through a Perspective of Jewish Law and Tradition, in Perspectives on Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism from Literature, Philosophy, Law and History (Martha Egan, Richard Nate & Marko Trajkovic eds., 2025).
Michael Lewyn, A Conservative Attack on Urbanism – And Why It Fails, 54 Real Est. L. J. 129 (Summer 2025).
Michael Lewyn, Mini-review: Chapter 1 of Wonder City, Market Urbanism (Aug. 8, 2025).
Michael Lewyn, Mini-review: Chapters 2 and 3 of Wonder City, Market Urbanism (Aug. 11, 2025).
Patricia E. Salkin, Louis H. Guard & Joyce P. Jacobsen, Current Higher Education Legal Issues and the Roles of Legal Leadership on Campus, 53 Urb. Law. 215 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Supreme Court Restricts Enforcement of Spending Clause Statutes Under §1983, NYLJ (Aug. 1, 2025).
Jolie Bodner Zangari, A Conviction in Jeopardy – The Mysterious Case Against Scott Peterson, Crim. Just. Mag. (July 18, 2025).
Honors, Awards & Appointments:
Beverley McQueary Smith, Daniel Curtin Lifetime Achievement Award, ABA State and Local Government Section, Jefferson B. Fordham Awards Luncheon, 2025 American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada (Aug. 8, 2025).
Presentations:
Samuel J. Levine, A Talk on Artificial Intelligence, Jewish Ethics, and the Law, Chabad of Malibu, CA (Aug. 10, 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, Supreme Court 2024-2025: Landmark Rulings, Controversies & What’s Next, Law of the Land: The Supreme Court Year in Review, Forum on Life, Culture & Society (July 28, 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, speaker, Supreme Court October 2024 Term: Fundamental Rights: Speech, Voting, and Discrimination, 27th Annual Supreme Court Review, Practicing Law Institute (Aug. 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, panelist, Supreme Court October 2024 Term Criminal and Civil Litigation (Including Civil Rights and Business Interests), 27th Annual Supreme Court Review, Practicing Law Institute (Aug. 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, speaker, Preparing for the Site Visit, 2025 ABA Associate Deans Conference: Stability in a Time of Transition. American Bar Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. (June 25, 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, leader, Day in the Life Session, 2025 ABA Associate Deans Conference: Stability in a Time of Transition. American Bar Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. (June 25, 2025).
Tiffany C. Graham, moderator, Associate Deans 101: Creating Your Toolbox, 2025 ABA Associate Deans Conference: Stability in a Time of Transition. American Bar Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. (June 25, 2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, speaker, Supreme Court October 2024 Term Criminal and Civil Litigation (Including Civil Rights and Business Interests), 27th Annual Supreme Court Review, Practicing Law Institute (Aug. 2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, speaker, Overview of the Supreme Court October 2024 Term, 27th Annual Supreme Court Review, Practicing Law Institute (Aug. 2025).
Citations:
Rodger D. Citron & Laura 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 (May 7, 2024), was cited in, Leo J. Soh & Jared M. Stehle, Less is More: Issue Presumption in Mass Tort MDLS, 100 NYU L. Rev. 23 (2025).
Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, A Response to Criticism of the Bar Exam, 43 Bar Exam’r 35 (2005), was cited in, Brian Gallini, Licensure as Pathway, Not Barrier, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 199 (2025).
Laura 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 (May 7, 2024), was cited in, Leo J. Soh & Jared M. Stehle, Less is More: Issue Presumption in Mass Tort MDLS, 100 NYU L. Rev. 23 (2025).
Eileen Kaufman, The Lawyers Justice Corps: A Licensing Pathway to Enhance Access to Justice, 18 U. St. Thomas L. J. 159 (2022), was cited in, Brian Gallini, Licensure as Pathway, Not Barrier, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 199 (2025).
Richard Daniel Klein, Due Process Denied: Judicial Coercion in the Plea Bargaining Process, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. 1349 (2004), was cited in, Rinat Kitai-Sangero, The Path to Justice: Lessons from Kent Roach’s “Wrongfully Convicted,” 11 J. Glob. Just. & Pub. Pol’y 29 (2025).
Michael Lewyn, Does Government Encouraging Home Ownership Make It More Affordable?, Found. For Econ. Educ. (Dec. 23, 2020), was cited in, Gabriella M. Chioffi, Criminalization of Homelessness: The Impact of a Market-Oriented Approach, 35 Duke J. Comp. & Int’l L. 171 (2025).
Jeffrey B. Morris, Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit (2001), was cited in, Yonatan Gelblum, The Myth that Agency Adjudications Cannot Address Constitutional Claims, 32 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 223 (2025).
Patricia E. Salkin, Am. L. Zoning (5th ed., 2024) & Patricia E. Salkin, Sustainability at the Edge: The Opportunity and Responsibility of Local Governments to Most Effectively Plan for Natural Disaster Mitigation, 38 Env’t L. Rep 10158 (2008), were cited in, Sarah J. Adams, Land Law Localism and the Climate Resilience Paradox, 36 Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. 47 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation (Kris Markarian ed., 3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Michael Abrams, Neel Lalchandani & Jamie Strawbridge, To Remedy Police Misconduct, Federal Disability Law is More Effective Than the Constitution, 62 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1151 (2025).
Martin A. Schwartz, Jessica Silbey, Jack Ryan & Gail Donoghue, Analysis of Videotape Evidence in Police Misconduct Cases, 25 Touro L. Rev. 857 (2009), was cited in, Jordan Wallace-Wolf, A Fourth Amendment of People and Places: Three Foundational Claims About Geofencing, 108 Marq. L. Rev. 411 (2024).
Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Intelligence and Legal Education, 54 Psych. Pub. Pol’y & L. 1173 (1999), was cited in, Io Cheng Tong, Rostam J. Neuwirth & Ke Li, Polyjuralism Meets Polyglotism: An LL.B. in Chinese Law and Global Legal Studies in the English Language, 11 Asian J. L. & Soc. 195 (2024).
Sol Wachtler, Stare Decisis and a Changing New York Court of Appeals, 59 St. John’s L. Rev. 445 (1985), was cited in, Tanveer Singh, Preserving Local Worker and Labor Regulations: Democratic Recalibration of Local Administrative Law, 53 Urb. Law. 297 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, Subnational Climate Mitigation Policy: A Framework for Analysis, 23 Colo. J. Int’l Env’t L. & Pol’y 285 (2012), was cited in, Donald T. Hornstein, Plastics, Carbon, Politics, and Experimentation in Environmental Governance, 49 Wm. & Mary Env’t L. & Pol’y Rev. 555 (2025).
Gabriel Weil, Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic Risk from Artificial Intelligence, SSRN (2024), was cited in, Jason Green-Lowe, Fynn Fehrenbach & Mark Reddish, Silicon Sentinels: Using Whistleblower Protections to Manage Information Asymmetry and AI Risk, 19 Liberty U. L. Rev. 929 (2025).
Media:
Rodger D. Citron, Trump v. CASA: The Case of Universal Injunctions, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Aug. 7, 2025).
Michael Lewyn, mentioned, Liam LaMountain, Reilly Loynd & Sarah Kadous, Shaping America’s Towns and Cities, Regul. Rev. (Aug. 30, 2025).
Mauricio Noroña, mentioned, Beth Wang, NY Law Schools See New Interest in Immigration Classes, Clinics, Bloomberg L. Bus. & Prac. (Aug. 8, 2025).
Thanks:
Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Anthony J. Ranieri, In Too Deep: Navigating an Unpredictable Algorithm, 40 Touro L. Rev. 815 (2025).