Spotlight Professor Emeritus Marjorie Silver

Announcement from Dean Elena Langan

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Marjorie A. Silver to the status of Professor Emerita, effective January 1, 2026, following her retirement from full-time service at the Law Center.

Professor Silver has served our faculty with distinction for thirty-four and a half years. Her contributions to Touro Law Center through teaching, scholarship, and service have been exceptional.

She pioneered the integration of Therapeutic Jurisprudence principles into our curriculum. For nineteen years, she taught the Civil Practice Externship Seminar, focusing on reflection and relational competencies essential for ethical legal practice. Her scholarship has achieved international recognition, and she has presented at more than fifty national and international conferences.

Professor Silver was one of the founders of the Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education Section of the Association of American Law Schools, receiving the Section's Annual Award in 2024. She also received the American Bar Association CoLAP award for her groundbreaking curriculum work on substance abuse, stress, and mental health in the legal profession.

Throughout her tenure, Professor Silver has served as Director of the Externship Program and chaired numerous faculty committees, including establishing the Faculty Committee on Community and Well-Being in 2022. Her pro bono work representing immigrant victims of domestic abuse and helping rescue a family from Afghanistan in 2021 has had life-changing impact.

We are honored that Touro University has granted Professor Silver the title of Professor Emerita and congratulate her on a remarkable career of service to Touro Law Center and the legal profession.

Elena Langan
Dean and Professor of Law