November 2024

November 2024

Publications:

Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, The Final Quarter, NYLJ (Nov. 29, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, Book Review: Combining Sustainability and Smart Growth, Planetizen (Oct. 22, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, YIMBY Right and Left: A Review of Two Books, Planetizen (Oct. 15, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, Zoning and Land Use Planning: Project 2025 and Housing Policy, 53 Real Est. L. J. 132 (2024).

Gabriel Weil et al., Insuring Emerging Risks from AI, Whitepaper, Oxford U. Martin Sch. Institute for L. & AI (2024).

Presentations:

Rodger D. Citron, Administrative Law, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Joan C. Foley, Aging: Health, Law, and Policy, 2024 Touro University Interprofessional Education Summit (Nov. 21, 2024).

Tiffany C. Graham, Program Chair, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Melina A. Healey, Collaborative Problem Solving: An Interprofessional Approach to Case-Based Learning in Social Work, Law, Education, and Mental Health, 2024 Touro University Interprofessional Education Summit (Nov. 21, 2024).

Elena B. Langan, Opening Remarks, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, moderator and co-organizer, Taking Hamas Funders to Court, Touro Talks, Jewish Law Institute and Touro Law Center (Nov. 19, 2024).

Ann L. Nowak, Advanced Writing Tips for Appellate Attorneys, Appellate Practice Committee, Nassau Cnty Bar Ass’n (Nov. 22, 2024).

Ann L. Nowak, 10 Writing Tips to Avoid Ambiguity, Appellate Judges Education Institute, Boston (Nov. 17, 2024).

Danielle N. Reilly, Civil Rights and Liability Shields, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Jorge R. Roig, Free Speech, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Review of the Last Term and Preview of the New Term, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Civil Rights and Liability Shields, Thirty-Fifth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Nov. 8, 2024).

Honors, Awards & Appointments:

Lauren R. Roth, awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Fund to lead her research project titled State Regulation of Medicare Brokers (Nov. 20, 2024).

Gabriel Weil, Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic Risk from Artificial Intelligence (2024), SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4694006, selected as a finalist for the Award for Scholarship on AI and Liability, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (October, 2024).

Citations:

Hal Abramson, New Singapore Convention on Cross-Border Mediated Settlements: Key Choices, in Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes (Catherine Titi & Katia Fach Gómez eds. 2019), was cited in, Catherine Titi, Investment Treaty Arbitration Caught in the Public-Private Law Divide, 45 Mich. J. Int’l L. 441 (2024).

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, The Talmudic Rule Against Self-Incrimination and the American Exclusionary Rule: A Societal Prohibition Verses an Affirmative Individual Right, N.Y.L. Sch. J. Int’l & Compar. L. 21 (2002), was cited in, David C. Flatto, Evidently Not: Why Confessions are Excluded in Jewish Criminal Jurisprudence, 39 J. L. & Religion 173 (2024).

Eileen Kaufman, The Second Amendment: An Analysis of District of Columbia v. Heller, 25 Touro L. Rev. 703 (2009), was cited in, Henry H. Robinson, Second Amendment: Incompatible Methodologies and the Bruen and Heller Opinions’ Underlying Misalignment, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1107 (2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Covid-19 and Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: Tragic Realities and Cautious Hope, 24 Ariz. St. L.J. Online 80 (2020), was cited in, Kevin Timpe, Education as Bioethics: Oppression and Pandemic Public Education, in Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies (Joel Michael Reynolds & Mercer E. Gary eds., 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Law and American Law, A Comparative Study (2018) & Samuel J. Levine, Rabbi Lamm, The Fifth Amendment, and Comparative Jewish Law, 53 Tradition 146, were cited in, David C. Flatto, Evidently Not: Why Confessions are Excluded in Jewish Criminal Jurisprudence, 39 J. L. & Religion 173 (2024).

Michael Lewyn, How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City Without Zoning), 50 Wayne L. Rev. 1171 (2005), was cited in, Matthew J. Ruppel, A Taking by Any Other Name: Why Exclusionary Zoning Should Be Classified as a Per Se Taking, 48 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2024).

Deborah W. Post & Phoebe A. Hadden, Misuse and Abuse of the LSAT: Making the Case for Alternative Evaluative Efforts and a Redefinition of Merit, 80 St. John’s L. Rev. 41 (2006), was cited in, Dara E. Purvis, Law School as Masculine Competition, 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 359 (2024).

Deborah W. Post, Cardozo, the Canon, and Some Critical Thoughts About Pedagogy, 34 Touro L. Rev. 321 (2018), was cited in, Diane Kemker, A Genre-Based Critique of the Law School Casebook, 60 Willamette L. Rev. 37 (2023).

Patricia E. Salkin, Am. L. Zoning (5^th ed. 2024), was cited in, Winco Anchorage Investors I, L.P. v. Huffman Building P, LLC, 556 P.3d 1194 (Alaska 2024).

Patricia E. Salkin & Amy Lavine, Understanding Community Benefits Agreements: Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Other Considerations for Developers, Municipalities, and Community Organizations, 26 UCLA J. Env’t L. & Pol’y 291 (2008), was cited in, Alexandra Potamianos, How to Blow Up a Solar Farm: Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects, 54 Env’t L. Rep. 10945 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Regulative Controversial Land Uses, 39 Real Estate L. J. 526 (2011), was cited in, Gina S. Warren, The Chronic Growing Problem: Environmental and Social Justice Concerns with Indoor Cannabis Grows, 45 Cardozo L. Rev. 1901 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Agriculture in N.Y. State, N.Y. Zoning L. & Prac. (2023), was cited in, Brandon C. Kemp, Farming in the Future in New York: Sweet Corn, Apples, Milk, Floriculture, & Electricity?, 25 NY Zoning L. & Prac. Rep. 1 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Wind Farms, N.Y. Zoning L. & Prac. (2023), was cited in, Brandon C. Kemp, Farming in the Future in New York: Sweet Corn, Apples, Milk, Floriculture, & Electricity?, 25 NY Zoning L. & Prac. Rep. 1 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, Municipal Regulation of Formula Businesses: Creating and Protecting Communities, 58 Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev. 1251 (2008) & Patricia E. Salkin, Community Benefits Agreements: Opportunities and Traps for Developers, Municipalities, and Community Organization, 59 Plan. & Env’t L. 3 (2007), were cited in, Clayton P. Gillette, The Subdivided City, 133 Yale L. J. 2700 (2024).

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation (Kris Markarian ed., 3d ed. 2014), was cited in, Emily Nicole Janikowski, The Illusion of Absolute Prosecutorial Immunity: The Supreme Court’s Legislative Magic Trick, 22 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 675 (2024).

Marjorie A. Silver, Commitment and Responsibility: Modeling and Teaching Professionalism Pervasively, 14 Widener L. J. 329 (2005), was cited in, Rebecca Flanagan, Open Books, Better Skills: An Argument for Limited Open-Book Exams, 54 Stetson L. Rev. 51 (2024).

Marjorie A. Silver, Love, Hate, and Other Emotional Interference in the Lawyer/Client Relationship, 6 Clinical L. Rev. 259 (1999), was cited in, Daniel F. Bousquet, Repairing the Family Law Attorney, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 473 (2024).

Theodore Silver, One Hundred Years of Harmful Error: The Historical Jurisprudence of Medical Malpractice, 1992 Wis. L. Rev. 1194 (1992), was cited in, Lewis A. Grossman, Criminalizing Transgender Care, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 281 (2024).

Theodore Silver & Jean Elting Rowe, The Jurisprudence of Action and Inaction in the Law of Tort: Solving the Puzzle of Nonfeasance and Misfeasance from the Fifteenth Through Twentieth Centuries, 33 Duq L. Rev. 807 (1995), was cited in, Dov Waisman, Making Things Worse, Failing to Make Things Better, 76 Fla. L. Rev. 1285 (2024). 

Media:

Rodger D. Citron, History and Law: A Discussion with Rodger Citron, Practical History Podcast (Nov. 7, 2024).

Samuel J. Levine, quoted, Tracy Tullis, Prayer Service Held for “Forgotten” Jewish Psychiatric Patients Buried in Central Islip, Newsday (Nov. 4, 2024).

Michael Lewyn, quoted, Robert Steuteville, Complete Streets: What Went Wrong?, Public Square (Nov. 5, 2024).

Thanks:

Myra Berman, was thanked in, Keren Kendil, School Choice & Religious Discrimination: A Story of the Illusory “Wall of Separation,” Sour “Lemon Tests,” and Overgrown “Baby Blaines”, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1219 (2024).

Myra Berman, was thanked in, Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Breaching the Walls of the Inviolable Citadel: The Supreme Court’s Treatment of the Lemon Test and its Progeny, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1299 (2024).

Rodger D. Citron, was thanked in, Cynara Hermes McQuillan, How to Impeach a Verdict: A Response to Melanie C. Regis, 97 Temp. L. Rev. 1 (2024).

Rodger D. Citron, was thanked in, Brian Muff, Livin’ on a Legislative Prayer: How Prayer at a School Board Meeting Survives Under and Exception to the Establishment Clause, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1251 (2024).

Mark. D. Cohen, was thanked in, Samantha M. Davis, The Punishment of Cruel and Unusual Conditions: Extending the Purely Objective Standard Adopted in Kingsley v. Hendrickson to Claims of Deliberate Indifference, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1353 (2024).

Tiffany C. Graham, was thanked in, Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Breaching the Walls of the Inviolable Citadel: The Supreme Court’s Treatment of the Lemon Test and its Progeny, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1299 (2024).

Patricia E. Salkin, was thanked in, Brandon C. Kemp, Farming in the Future in New York: Sweet Corn, Apples, Milk, Floriculture, & Electricity?, 25 NY Zoning L. & Prac. Rep. 1 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1551 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Keren Kendil, School Choice & Religious Discrimination: A Story of the Illusory “Wall of Separation,” Sour “Lemon Tests,” and Overgrown “Baby Blaines”, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1219 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Amber N. Roibu, The Danger of Silence: The Negative Effect of Supreme Court Hesitance to Establish a Bright-Line Rule for Determining Patent Subject Matter Eligibility, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1425 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Joshua Segev, Judges in Their Own Cases: Biblical Kings and Supreme Court Justices, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1147 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Breaching the Walls of the Inviolable Citadel: The Supreme Court’s Treatment of the Lemon Test and its Progeny, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1299 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Samantha M. Davis, The Punishment of Cruel and Unusual Conditions: Extending the Purely Objective Standard Adopted in Kingsley v. Hendrickson to Claims of Deliberate Indifference, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1353 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Amber N. Roibu, Protection in a Virtual Reality: The Dire Need for Trademark and Copyright Law Expansion to Encompass Digital Content Within the Metaverse, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1455 (2024).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Brian Muff, Livin’ on a Legislative Prayer: How Prayer at a School Board Meeting Survives Under and Exception to the Establishment Clause, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1251 (2024).

Gabriel Weil, was thanked in, Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1551 (2024).