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October 2025

Publications:

Hal Abramson, Time-Pressured Negotiations, 30 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 141 (2025).

Allison Caffarone & Nicolas Bourtin, Are Criminal Antitrust, ‘Klein’ Conspiracy, and Insider Trading Prosecution All Unconstitutional? The Untenable Legal Bases of ‘Judge-Made’ Criminal Law, NYLJ (Oct. 1, 2025).

Rodger D. Citron, Which NBA Player is Each Supreme Court Justice?, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 22, 2025).

Honors, Awards & Appointments:

Myra Berman, appointed as member of the Suffolk County Attorneys for Children Advisory Committee.

Denise Marzano-Doty, 2025 Honoree at the Champion of Civil Justice Reception, SCBA, Suffolk County Pro Bono Project, Legal Services of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Courts (Oct. 9, 2025).

Rebecca Feinberg, Award for First Author Publication with the Highest Number of News Mentions for her article “The Alabama Embryo Decision – The Politics and Reality of Recognizing ‘Extrauterine Children’”, New York Medical College (Oct. 23, 2025).

Mauricio E. Noroña, 2025 Educator Award, Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, NYS Fourth Senatorial District, Central Islip, NY (Oct. 14, 2025).

Leif Rubenstein, Honored as a Long-Time Member of the SCBA’s Pro Bono Foundation, Champion of Civil Justice Reception, SCBA, Suffolk County Pro Bono Project, Legal Services of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Courts (Oct. 9, 2025).

Paul Senzer, 2025 Honoree at the Champion of Civil Justice Reception, SCBA, Suffolk County Pro Bono Project, Legal Services of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Courts (Oct. 9, 2025).

AveMaria Thompson, 2025 Honoree at the Champion of Civil Justice Reception, SCBA, Suffolk County Pro Bono Project, Legal Services of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Courts (Oct. 9, 2025).

Presentations:

Hal Abramson, keynote speaker, The Advocate’s Edge: Mastering Mediation and Arbitration, Litigation Section Institute, Ohio State Bar (Oct. 14, 2025).

Patricia Baia, moderator, Transforming the Student Experience with AI, AI Summit, Touro University (Oct. 23, 2025).

Rodger D. Citron, presenter, Executive Power, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Mark D. Cohen, presenter, Criminal Litigation, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Tiffany C. Graham, presenter, First Amendment, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Elena B. Langan, speaker, Opening Remarks, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Denise Marzano-Doty, Business Formation, Entrepreneurial Assistance Center, Suffolk County Community College (Oct. 18, 2025).

Cynara McQuillen, presenter, Criminal Litigation, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Mauricio E. Noroña, presenter, Immigration Law, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Jorge Roig, presenter, Civil Litigation, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Martin A. Schwartz, presenter, Review of the Last Term and Preview of the New Term, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Martin A. Schwartz, presenter, Civil Rights, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Lauren Wachtler, presenter, Civil Litigation, Thirty-Sixth Annual Honorable Leon D. Lazer Supreme Court Review, Touro Law Center (Oct. 24, 2025).

Citations:

Mark Goldfeder, Defining Antisemitism, 52 Seton Hall L. Rev. 119 (2021) & Mark Goldfeder, Codifying Antisemitism, 127 Penn. St. L. Rev. 405 (2023) & Mark Goldfeder, New Definitions of Anti-Semitism Are Dangerous, Jewish News Syndicate (Apr. 21, 2021), were cited in, Andrea J. Martin, From Ambiguity to Accountability: The Case for a Legal Definition of Antisemitism in Academia, 2025 Pepp. L. Rev. 19 (2025).

Samuel J. Levine & Bruce A. Green, Disciplinary Regulation of Prosecutors as a Remedy for Abuses of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 143 (2016), was cited in, Bruce A. Green & Rebecca Roiphe, Under Political Pressure: How Courts and Congress Can Help Prosecutors Seek Justice, 135 Yale L.J. 138 (2025).

Michael Lewyn, The Case Against the Case for Zoning, 2 Geo. Envt’l L. Rev. 249 (2024), was cited in, Patricia E. Salkin, An Introduction to Land Use Planning and Control Law, in Land Use Planning and Dev. Reg. L. (October 2025 Update, 3d. ed.).

Patricia E. Salkin, Am. L. Zoning (5th ed., 2024), was cited in, Sarah J. Adams, Federal Flood Policy & Maladaptation: A Story of Collective Forgetting, 34 S. Cal. Interdis. L.J. 1 (2025).

Patricia E. Salkin, Irresponsible Legislating: Reeling in the Aftermath of Kelo, 34 Real Est. L.J. 375 (2005), was cited in, Madeleine Lewis & Tara Righetti, CO2 Pipelines as Common Carriers, 10 Oil & Gas, Nat. Resources & Energy J. 661 (2025).

Marjorie A. Silver, Emotional Intelligence and Legal Education, 5 Psych. Pub. Pol’y & L. 1173 (1999), was cited in, Osigbodi Ajose, Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Decision-Making in the Judicial and Management Staff of the High Court of Nigeria, 10 Int’l J. Innovative Sci. & Research Tech. 1066 (2025).

Gabriel Weil, Tort Law Should Be the Centerpiece of AI Governance, Lawfare (Aug. 6, 2024), was cited in, Amy B. Cyphert, Confronting the Challenges of Regulating Artificial Intelligence, 20 FIU L. Rev. 82 (2025).

Gabriel Weil, Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic Risk from Artificial Intelligence (June 6, 2024) (unpublished manuscript), was cited in, Cullen O’Keefe, Ketan Ramakrishnan, Janna Tay & Christoph Winter, Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws, 94 Fordham L. Rev. 57 (2025).

Media:

Rodger D. Citron, mentioned, Joe Mathews, Trump’s America is Effectively Abandoning California, S.F. Chron. (Oct. 5, 2025).

Rodger D. Citron, moderator, Law in Literature: The Case of Hollow Spaces, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Oct. 10, 2025).

Rodger D. Citron, moderator, Congress, the President, and Tariffs: Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump at the Supreme Court, Touro L. Rev. Podcast (Oct. 28, 2025).

Mark Goldfeder, quoted, Mathilda Heller, US Victims of Palestinian Terror Sue PLO Over “Pay for Slay” Scheme, Jerusalem Post (Oct. 22, 2025).

Elena B. Langan, quoted, Adina Genn, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Receive Touro Award, LIBN (Sept. 9, 2025).

Michael Lewyn & Jen Casey, Book Talk: The Unfinished Metropolis with Author Benjamin Schneider, Lewyn on the Land Podcast (Oct. 1, 2025).

Jorge Roig, mentioned, Joe Mathews, Trump’s America is Effectively Abandoning California, S.F. Chron. (Oct. 5, 2025).

Jorge Roig, mentioned, Joe Mathews, Time for California to Secede – For Real This Time, Desert Sun (Oct. 12, 2025).

Martin A. Schwartz, Section 1983 Litigation: Claims and Defenses (4th ed., 2019), was cited in, Tyler B. Lindley, Anachronistic Readings of Section 1983, 75 Ala. L. Rev. 897 (2024).

Thanks:

Samuel J. Levine, was thanked in, Andrew Chin, A Patent System for Temple Grandin, 40 Touro L. Rev. 679 (2025).

Irene McDermott, was thanked in, Patricia E. Salkin, Historic Preservation, in Am. L. Zoning Ch. 27 (5th ed., November 2025 Update). 

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Anthony J. Ranieri, In Too Deep: Navigating an Unpredictable Algorithm, 40 Touro L. Rev. 815 (2025).

Rena C. Seplowitz, was thanked in, Alexa D. Sondey, The False Evidence Ploy: A Coercive, Not Just Deceptive, Police Tactic, 40 Touro L. Rev. 851 (2025).

Gabriel Weil, was thanked in, Heather E. Payne & Joel B. Eisen, Artificial Intelligence and Energy Democracy, 62 San Diego L. Rev. 471 (2025).

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