About

May 2023

Publications:

Rodger D. Citron, Alexander Hamilton and Administrative Law: How America's First Great Public Administrator Informs and Challenges Our Understanding of Contemporary Administrative Law, 71 Clev. St. L. Rev. 719 (2023).

Michael Lewyn, Thinking About Right-NIMBYism, Planetizen (May 5, 2023).

Patricia E. Salkin, (Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer & Ryan Max Rowberry), Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law (5th ed. 2023).

Honors, Awards & Appointments:

Laura Dooley, inducted as a Life Member of the American Law Institute, American Law Institute 2023 Annual Meeting (May 23, 2023).

Meredith R. Miller, appointed as Administrator of the 2023 Supreme Court Panel by the Judiciary Committee of the Manhattan Democratic Party.

Presentations:

Hon. Mark D. Cohen & Kent Moston, Annual Criminal Law Update, Suffolk County Bar Association, East Islip, NY (May 30, 2023).

Joan C. Foley, co-presenter, Healthcare: Policy, Law, and Economics, 2023 Touro Interprofessional Education Summit, Touro University (May 11, 2023).

Tal Kastner, Contract Interpretation: A Macro View, Junior Faculty Forum, University of Richmond School of Law (May 23, 2023).

Tal Kastner, The Stakes of the Plot, Legal Fictions, Story/Histoire: Reading with Peter Brooks, Yale U. (May 5, 2023).

Samuel J. Levine, co-moderator, Navigating and Balancing Jewish Identity: A Conversation with Leaders in Corporate America, Jewish Law Institute’s 2023 Distinguished Lecture, Touro Law Center (May 24, 2023).

Michael Lewyn, speaker, Sustainability and Land Development, 8th Annual SRP Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Arizona State University (May 12, 2023).

Patricia E. Salkin, Opening and Welcome Remarks, 2023 Touro Interprofessional Education Summit, Touro University (May 11, 2023).

Michelle Zakarin, speaker, Collaborating for Student Success: The Role of OER Faculty Fellows, the Library and CETL at Touro University, Touro University (May 9, 2023).

Media:

Tiffany Graham, quoted, Robert Brodsky, Experts Question Local Emergency Orders, Newsday (May 20, 2023).

Richard Daniel Klein, interviewed, Power & Politics Full Show: The Indictment of Rep. George Santos, News 12 (May 14, 2023).

Richard Daniel Klein, quoted, Trenton Daniel and Erik Tucker, Trump’s Freewheeling, Stream-of-Consciousness Speaking Style Draws Legal Attention Amid Probes, Associated Press (May 24, 2023).

Samuel J. Levine, interviewed, Anila Khan, Samuel Levine: Autism in Ancient Time, Spectrum Talks and Tips Int’l Podcast (May 1, 2023). 

Citations:

Harold Abramson, Selecting Mediators and Representing Clients in Cross-Cultural Disputes, 7 Cardozo J. Conflict Resolution 253 (2007) & Harold Abramson (& Carrie Menkel-Meadow), Mediating Multiculturally: Culture and the Ethical Mediator, in Mediation Ethics: Cases & Commentaries (2011), were cited in, Developing Skills to Address Cultural Issues in Arbitration and Mediation, CLE: Adding Mediating to Your Career: How to Get Started in 2023, N.Y.C. Bar Assoc. (May 16, 2023).

Deseriee A. Kennedy, Processing Civil Rights Summary Judgment and Consumer Discrimination Claims, 53 DePaul L. Rev. 989 (2004), was cited in, Benjamin M. Gerzik, Reforging the Master's Tools: Critical Race Theory in the First-Year Curriculum, 76 SMU L. Rev. Forum 34 (2023).

Richard Daniel Klein, An Analysis of Thirty-Five Years of Rape Reform: A Frustrating Search for Fundamental Fairness, 41 Akron L. Rev. 981 (2008), was cited in, Aya Gruber, Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law, 75 Stan. L. Rev. 755 (2023).

Richard Daniel Klein, An Analysis of Thirty-Five Years of Rape Reform: A Frustrating Search for Fundamental Fairness, 41 Akron L. Rev. 981 (2008), was cited in, Natalia W. Nyczak, He Said, She Said: Assessing the Post-Colonial Legacy on Somalia's Rape Laws, 37 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167 (2023).

Samuel J. Levine, The Supreme Court’s Hands-Off Approach to Religious Questions in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond, 24 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 276 (2022), was cited in, Richard W. Blackburn & Jeffrey J. Binder, 3 Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel § 47:31 (2023).

Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Legal Theory and American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons and Contrasts, 24 Hastings Const. L. Q. 441 (1997) & Samuel J. Levine, Unenumerated Constitutional Rights and Unenumerated Biblical Obligations: A Preliminary Study in Comparative Hermeneutics, 15 Const. Comment. 551 (1998), were cited in, Rev. TJ Denley, Originalism v. Dynamic Constitutionalism: Implications of Religious Beliefs on Constitutional Interpretation, 23 U. Md. L. J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 21 (2023).

Samuel J. Levine, Rethinking the Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach to Questions of Religious Practice and Belief, 25 Fordham Urb. L.J. 85 (1997), was cited in, Matthew R. Goldammer, Protecting Church Autonomy in the Twenty-First Century: A Defense of the Compulsory Deference Approach for Church Property Litigation, 37 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 11 (2023).

Michael Lewyn, Character Counts: The “Character of the Government Action” in Regulatory Takings Actions, 40 Seton Hall L. Rev. 597 (2010), was cited in, Michael B. Kent, Jr., "Nothing New Under the Sun": A Centennial Retrospective of Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 10 Belmont L. Rev. 201 (2023).

John Linarelli, (Margot E. Salomon & M. Sornarajah), The Misery of International Law: Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy (2018), was cited in, Charudutt Mishra et al., A Perspective on Conservation and Development (May 2023). DOI:10.32942/X2G88R

John Linarelli, (Margot E. Salomon & M. Sornarajah), The Misery of International Law: Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy (2018), was cited in, Raphael J. Heffron et al., Pathways of Scholarship for Energy Justice and the Social Contract, 41 J. Energy & Nat. Res. 211 (2023).

John Linarelli, (Margot E. Salomon & M. Sornarajah), The Misery of International Law: Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy (2018), was cited in, Paul Robert Gilbert, National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International Economic Order in Bangladesh, 16 Int’l Dev. Pol’y (2023).

Patricia E. Salkin, American Law of Zoning (5th ed. 2022), was cited in, Michael Allan Wolf, Superfluous Judicial Activism: The Takings Gloss, 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 287 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation (Kris Markarian ed., 3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Sarah Mikva Pfander, The Path to Municipal Liability for Racially Discriminatory Policing, 69 UCLA L. Rev. 1270 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, Due Process and Fundamental Rights, 17 Touro L. Rev. 237 (2016), was cited in, Zoë R. Haggerty, A Jurisprudence of Doubt: Disability-Based Abortions, Eugenics, and the Undue Burden Test Post-Dobbs, 64 B.C. L. Rev. 949 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, How the Supreme Court Enables Police Excessive Force, N.Y.L.J. (June 5, 2020), was cited in, Michael Brewster, Policing the Police: Utilizing the Right to Record and Civilian Oversight Boards to Monitor Police Activity in the United States, 88 Brook. L. Rev. 993 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz (& Kathryn R. Urbonya), Section 1983 Litigation 177 (2d ed. 2008), was cited in, Alezeh Rauf, Abstaining from Abstention: Why Younger Abstention Does Not Apply in 42 U.S.C. §1983 Bail Litigation, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 535 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, Functional Role of Section 1983, in Sword & Shield: A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation (Mary Massaron & Josephine A. DeLorenzo eds., 2021), was cited in, Zoe Levine, Holding Government Officials Accountable by Applying the State-Created Danger Doctrine to Cases of Suicide, 113 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 207 (2023).

Martin A. Schwartz, (Karen Blum & Erwin Chemerinsky), Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs, 29 Touro L. Rev. 633 (2013), was cited in, Nancy Leong, Municipal Failures, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 345 (2023).

Marjorie A. Silver, (Sanford Portnoy & Jean Koh Peters), Stress, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and Other Emotional Realities in the Lawyer/Client Relationship: A Panel Discussion, 19 Touro L. Rev. 847 (2004), was cited in, Jennifer Brown, Yvonne Shell & Terri Cole, The Lawyers, in Revealing Rape’s Many Voices (2023).

Sol Wachtler, Dred Scott Raises Its Ugly Head Again, N.Y.L.J. (Mar. 12, 2019), was cited in, Thomas J. Freeman et al., The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus, 21 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 187 (2023).

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