Touro Law Faculty at AALS 2026

A number of Touro Law faculty members are participating in the AALS 120th Annual Meeting while others are taking leadership positions in AALS sections. The 2026 Conference, “Impact. Excellence. Resilience. The Enduring Contributions of Legal Education.” is being held from January 6- 9 in New Orleans. The annual conference is the largest gathering of law faculty in the world.

Associate Dean and Professor of Law Rodger Citron
January 6 - 4:10 pm
Reviewer, AALS Section on Administrative Law, “New Voices in Administrative Law Program.”

Professor of Legal Process Joan Foley

Has been re-elected to the 2026 Executive Committee for AALS Aging and the Law Section.

Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Law Tiffany Graham
January 8 – 2:35 pm
Speaker, "2025-2050: Legal Education in (what was?) the United States," sponsored by Critical Theories.

Professor Graham serves as Secretary of the Women in Legal Education section. 

Director of the Jewish Law Institute and Professor of Law Samuel J. Levine
Professor Levine organized two panels for the conference: 

January 6 - 4:10 pm
Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Sponsored by Disability Law and Law and Mental Disability, "Pedagogy, Advising, and Beyond: Disabled Law Students, Disabled and Allied Law Student Associations (DALSAs), and Other Student Organizations Focused on Disability"

January 7 - 8:00 am
Jewish Law - "Teaching and Writing About Antisemitism"

Professor Levine will remain on the Executive Committee of the Sections on Jewish Law, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies.

Professor Levine served as Chair of the Committee that selected the recipient of the Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility, which will be awarded at the AALS on January 8, between the two programs of the Section on Professional Responsibility.

Director of the Institute on Land Use & Sustainable Development and Professor of Law Michael Lewyn
January 6 - 2:35 pm
Professor Lewyn is presenting his green amendment paper at the Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Program: Works-in-Progress: Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Panel

January 7 - 1:15 pm
Professor Lewyn is also presenting his green amendment paper at the Federalist Society "Seven-Minute Speech" Panel.

Professor Lewyn will be elected chair-elect of the AALS State and Local Government section.

Associate Professor of Law Gabriel Weil
January 7 – 2:35 pm
Presenting at a sh[AI]rk tank Work-in-Progress session and serving as a commentator for two environmental law papers as part of the Environmental & Natural Resources Law Work-in-Progress session.