Rodger Citron - Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law
About
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law
631-761-7102
rcitron@tourolaw.edu
Education
B.A., 1988, summa cum laude, Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., 1992, Yale Law School
Administrative Law
Complex Litigation
Jurisprudence
Rodger Citron is a graduate of Yale College, Phi Beta
Kappa and summa cum laude, and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of
the Yale Law Journal and a recipient of the C. LaRue Munson Prize. After law
school, he clerked for the Hon. Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., of the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a law
professor, he worked as a trial attorney at the United States Department of
Justice; a director at FindLaw, Inc.; and an attorney-advisor at the Federal
Communications Commission.
Professor Citron has served as the Associate Dean for
Research and Scholarship since late 2019. His law review articles have
been published in a number of law reviews, including the Stanford Journal of
Complex Litigation, South Carolina Law Review, Rutgers Law Review, and
Administrative Law Review. His student note in the Yale Law Journal has
been cited by seven courts and in more than 40 law review articles. In addition to the articles he has published in law reviews, Professor Citron is a co-author of Learning Administrative Law (2025) and A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (2009). His articles also have been published on the Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and Justia and in the Washington Monthly, National Law Journal, and Legal Times. From January
2007 through December 2010, he served as a reporter for the New York State Pattern
Jury Instructions Committee.
Professor Citron teaches Civil Procedure and
Administrative Law and has taught a number of elective courses, including
Jurisprudence, Supreme Court Seminar, and Law and Literature. In 2024, he
received the Touro Law Faculty Devoted Service to Legal Education Award.
In 2023, Professor Citron was voted Faculty Member of the Year by the Touro Law
Center Student Bar Association.
To read a longer bio of Rodger Citron, please click
here.
Publications
Books
Learning Administrative Law (2025) (co-author with Daniel Feldman, Rose Mary Bailly, and Mehmet Konar-Steenberg).
A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (2009) (co-author with Brandt Goldstein and Molly Beutz).
Articles
The Long Shadow of United States v. Rosenberg: A Biographical Perspective on the Hon. Irving Kaufman, 75 Rutgers L. Rev. 55 (2023)
Nine Ways of Looking at Oklahoma City: An Essay on Sam Anderson’s Boom Town, 57 Tulsa L. Rev. 317 (2021)
Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP: The Case of the Chief Justice and the Congressional Subpoenas, 46 Vermont L. Rev. 1 (2021)
Justice Ginsburg, Civil Procedure Professor and Champion of Judicial Federalism, 37 Touro L. Rev. 527 (2021) (tribute)
From Kiobel Back to Structural Reform: the Hidden Legacy of Holocaust Restitution Litigation, 2 Stan. J. Complex Litigation 139 (2014) (co-author with Leora Bilsky and Natalie Davidson)
A Life in the Law: An Interview with Drew Days, 30 Touro L. Rev. 153 (2014) (also published online July 2013)
Persecution through Prosecution: Revisiting Touro Law Center’s Conference in Paris on the Alfred Dreyfus Affair and the Leo Frank Trial, 29 Touro L. Rev. 1 (2013) (introduction to articles from conference)
The Case of the Retired Justice: How Would Justice John Paul Stevens Have Voted in J. McIntyre Macinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro? 63 S. Car. L. Rev. 643 (2012)
“Charles Reich” (entry in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009))
The Personal History of The Greening of America: Charles Reich's Journey from the Yale Law Journal to the New York Times' Best-Seller List 52 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 387 (2008).
The Nuremberg Trials and American Jurisprudence: The Decline of Legal Realism, the Revival of Natural Law, and the Development of Legal Process Theory, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 385 (2006).
Lessons from the Next Wave Saga: The Federal Communications Commission, the Courts, and the Use of Market Forms to Perform Public Functions, 57 Admin. L. Rev. 687 (2005) (co-author with John Rogovin).
