Jolie Bodner Zangari - Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Institute and Assistant Professor of Legal Process

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Sex Crimes Seminar

Legal Process I

Legal Process II 

Jolie Bodner Zangari is the Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Institute and an Assistant Professor of Legal Process at Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. She previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York and as an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York. At Touro Law, Professor Zangari teaches the Sex Crimes Seminar, as well as Legal Process I and II, while overseeing the law school's Trial Advocacy Institute and Trial Advocacy Honor Society. 

 

Professor Zangari’s most recent publications include commentary and legal analysis on postpartum psychosis and the insanity defense in the context of Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Lindsay Clancy (2026), a landmark homicide trial that gained national attention for its focus on postpartum mental healthcare and competing psychiatric expert testimony. Her quotes and analyses have appeared in media coverage throughout the highly publicized trial. Professor Zangari's other scholarly and practitioner publications include topics on the expansion of parental criminal liability for children’s violent crimes, an analysis of depraved indifference murder in New York State, and the evolution of sexual privacy laws in a modern virtual world. Several of her articles have been published by the American Bar Association and distributed internationally to criminal attorneys, judges, and academics. Professor Zangari has presented to various bar associations and law schools on criminal liability relating to mass violence in schools and the evolution of cyber sexual misconduct and sexual privacy laws. For the Trial Advocacy Institute, she has presented on trial skills and techniques. She also writes a quarterly column titled “Recent Reads,” which is published by the American Bar Association.

 

Prior to joining academia, Professor Zangari served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. She was primarily assigned to the Sex Crimes and Special Victims Bureau, where she investigated and prosecuted sexual offenses from arraignment to trial. While at SUNY, Professor Zangari taught courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, and Research in Crime and Security. Just prior to leaving that position, she was presented with a Faculty Achievement Award in Research. 

 

Professor Zangari received her J.D., summa cum laude, at Touro Law Center where she was a David Berg Public Interest Fellow, a Designated Faculty Fellow, and part of the Honors Program. During her time as a law student, she earned numerous awards for Academic Excellence in various courses. She also holds a M.A., summa cum laude, in Criminology and Justice from St. John’s University.

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