The FALL 2012|ALUMNI MAGAZINE TOURO LAWYER Touro Law Making a Difference -- Locally, Nationally, Internationally Faculty, students and alumni are engaged and involved in the community and world around them. ALSO INSIDE: • Farewell Message from Dean Raful • Welcome Dean Salkin • Recap of Dreyfus Conference THE TOURO LAWYER DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW Patricia E. Salkin ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSOR OF LAW Deborah Post ASSISTANT DEAN FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Linda Howard Weissman DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS Kristin Matthews DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Patti Desrochers ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Kimberly Newman SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR Courtney Klein ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR Caitlin Uihlein DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Vanessa Steil The Touro Lawyer is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement Touro Law Center for its alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends. Correspondence should be directed to: Patti Desrochers Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center 225 Eastview Drive Central Islip, NY 11722 [email protected] Copyright 2012 Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Contents 2 Farewell Message from Dean Raful 3 Welcome to Dean Patricia E. Salkin 4 News and Events 10 CLE Recaps 12 PERSECUTION THROUGH PROSECUTION: ALFRED DREYFUS, LEO FRANK AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE 3-day conference in Paris, France Overview of papers by: Rodger Citron, Charles Dreyfus, Steve Oney and Steven Erlanger 20 MAKING A DIFFERENCE - 22 Locally, Nationally, THE GUY WHO WROTE THE BOOK Internationally Professor Hal Abramson is the international expert on mediation representation, and the author of the most widely used mediation representation book in law schools 26 DEAN GLICKSTEIN’S LEGACY IN BALI By David Sperling ’94 28 CHILDREN, PARENTS & THE STATE: The Construction of a New Family Ideology By Professor Deseriee Kennedy 31 Faculty Notes 40 Alumni Council 46 Class Notes Message from Dean Raful This is my final letter as dean to alumni and friends of Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and it is important to me to write this note of thanks to each of you. I want to write a letter that rises above clichés and platitudes so I can express to the Touro Law community how much your support and friendship has meant to me. My eight years as dean have been exciting and challenging, and I think that together we made some headway in the life of Touro Law, reaching a new level of maturity and significance as an institution of higher education. I have said publicly on numerous occasions that meeting alumni has been one of the very best parts of this job. Getting to know the alumni from the very earliest years of “survival” in the Manhattan building, to the sometimes hilarious and heartwarming stories of the move to Huntington, has made the progress of the school and the achievements of the alumni from those first classes that much more impressive. I have always felt that our alumni, supporters, donors and friends were enthusiastic as we tried to build a law school that taught the law and made a difference in our community. We are still one of the youngest law schools in the State of New York, but people know who we are, and the legal community knows that our graduates are extremely capable counselors at law. Over and above our success on the bar exam and in admissions quality and placement rates, the school stands for something, and that is good. Of course none of this would have been possible - for me or for Touro Law - without my friend Howard A. Glickstein. He is a gentleman and a real scholar. Inside of him burns a passion for justice and for educating young men and women to care about practicing law in a professional, ethical and spiritual manner. All of us like to take advantage of Dean Glickstein’s good humor and warm personality with some kidding and fun, but none of us should ever forget or take for granted what he accomplished in his 18 years as dean, during times that were sometimes a real struggle. His guidance and mentoring have meant so much to me these past years. He is, as we say, a mensch. I have really enjoyed my work with our faculty, and especially two important components of that group, our legal writing and clinical faculty. I adore the Gould Law Library staff, a professional group of people who really care about service to the faculty, the students and the public. And I am forever indebted to our Law Center administration and staff. They are the very best, working hard to fulfill our mission. And I am fond and thankful, of course, of and for my colleagues, past and present, in the Dean’s Suite – they have become lifelong friends. I want to close by returning to the alumni. I have not met every graduate of the school, but I have met many, and I thank each of you for your interest in what we are doing here. After all, it will always be YOUR school, and I was merely a steward for a few years. I hope I helped steer the ship in the direction that you wished for your alma mater to go, and I hope that you will continue to support Touro Law Center. Our new dean, Patty Salkin, is wonderful. She cares deeply about our future and I hope you have a chance to meet her soon. I look forward to my years to come on the Touro Law faculty, so we will stay in touch. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a friend. Sincerely, Lawrence Raful Dean and Professor of Law Welcome Dean Salkin The Touro Law Center community is pleased to welcome Patricia E. Salkin as our 5th and first female Dean. She brings with her vast academic and government experience as well as much enthusiasm for legal education, scholarship and the legal profession. For the past two decades, Dean Salkin was at Albany Law School, serving most recently as the Raymond & Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law as well as Associate Dean and Director of the Government Law Center. A nationally recognized scholar in the fields of land use and community development as well as government ethics and municipal law, she is the author of hundreds of books, articles and columns. A leader in the legal profession, she is a member of the ABA House of Delegates and the Standing Committee on Government Affairs; a past chair of numerous national and state bar sections, committees and task forces; and she continues active involvement in numerous professional and community organizations. Since her tenure began on July 30, 2012, Dean Salkin has hit the ground running. Her schedule has been packed with meetings – and not just ABA and NYSBA meetings, but To reach out to appointments with alumni, students, staff, faculty and other members of the Touro Law Dean Salkin – community. She looks forward to meeting and greeting as well as networking on behalf of Touro Law in the coming months. or send her a welcome She stated, “Once I took the time to really learn about Touro Law Center, I knew this is message, please feel free where I wanted to be. This is a place with a heart and soul and a commitment to social justice, rule of law and to excellence in teaching the future leaders of our profession how to email her directly at to be exceptional counselors and advocates. I hope to spend time getting the word out [email protected]. about the innovative, meaningful and inspiring work our students, faculty and alumni are engaged with on behalf of public, private and non-profit sectors – while continuing to She also welcomes you build upon the foundation set by my predecessors. This truly is a special place.” to connect with her Dean Salkin’s agenda for the coming months is aggressive. She plans to work with the faculty on curricular opportunities, focus on excellence in teaching and scholarship, on Facebook at Dean increase Touro Law Center’s visibility and reputation, enhance resources for student Patricia Salkin, on scholarships and build strategic collaborative programs with other schools and departments of Touro College. Since becoming Dean, she has been appointed to the New York City Linkedin at Patricia Bar Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession, providing another platform for participating in the ongoing dialogue about changes in the legal profession and in legal Salkin, and to follow education. her on Twitter In a word, Dean Salkin is dynamic. We hope you will join us in welcoming Dean Salkin @DeanSalkin. to the Touro Law family. 4 News and Events The Touro Lawyer Fall 2012 Congratulations Class of 2012! Fall 2012 The Touro Lawyer News and Events 5 6 News and Events The Touro Lawyer Fall 2012 Touro Law Center Enters Scholar Exchange Program with the School of Law at the Netanya Academic College in Israel Touro Law Center has entered into a Scholar Exchange Program with the School of Law at the Netanya Academic College in Israel. This exchange was facilitated by the two deans, Dean Lawrence Raful of Touro Law and Dean Sinai Deutch of Netanya Academic College. Netanya, the largest city on the road between Tel Aviv and Haifa, not only lays claim to a stretch of beautiful beaches, but is also home to the Netanya Academic College. The College has over 1,200 students, and it is now the third largest center for legal studies in Israel. The Scholar Exchange had its first iteration with the visit by two scholars from Touro Law Center at Netanya’s law school in Israel.