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Touro Law Center

April 15, 2024

Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center,[4] commonly known as Touro Law Center,[5] is an ABA accredited law school.[6] It is located on Long Island, New York, in the hamlet of Central Islip. The Law Center is part of Touro University, a private, not-for-profit, coeducational institution based in New York City.[7]

Touro Law Center
Parent schoolTouro University
Religious affiliationJewish
Established1980
School typePrivate
DeanElena B. Langan
LocationCentral Islip, New York, United States
40°45′43″N 73°11′16″W / 40.762°N 73.187738°W / 40.762; -73.187738
Enrollment595 (total)[1]
Faculty94 total, 36 full time [1]
USNWR ranking167 (2023-2024)[2]
Bar pass rate70.1% (2020 first time takers)[3]
Websitewww.tourolaw.edu

Touro Law Center has 36 full-time faculty members and 58 teaching adjunct faculty.[1] Of the Touro graduates who took the New York bar for the first time in 2020, 70.7% passed, vs. an overall average of 85.7%.[3]

Campus edit

Touro Law Center is the only law school in Suffolk County, New York.[8] After briefly beginning operations in Manhattan, the Law Center's first campus was established in the town of Huntington, which is located in northwestern Suffolk County.[9] In 2007, the Law Center moved to its current campus in Central Islip.[10] The Central Islip campus, consisting of a four-story, 180,000-square-foot building, is located within walking distance of both the Alfonse M. D’Amato United States Courthouse and the John P. Cohalan State Court Complex,[11] in which the Suffolk County District and Family Courts and the New York State Supreme Court sit.[12]

Programs edit

Curriculum edit

Students may enroll in either a program to earn a Juris Doctor (JD) degree[13] or a Master of Laws (LLM) degree.[14] Both full-time and part-time programs are available to students in the JD program.[13]

Touro Law Center is one of several law schools in New York State to offer a two-year accelerated JD program, in which accepted students fulfill their credit-requirements of study within 24 months, beginning with the summer of their first year, and sit for a Bar Examination 26 months after they begin their law school studies.[15] In addition, Touro Law Center offers an accelerated JD program, referred to as a "three-plus-three" (BA/JD) program, with the University of Central Florida,[16] and an accelerated JD Program which allows graduates of foreign law schools to earn a J.D. degree in two years.[17]

Touro Law Center offers four concentrations for J.D. candidates,[18] an L.L.M program for U.S. law school graduates and a Master of Laws in U.S. Legal Studies for foreign law graduates,[19] and joint J.D./M.B.A, J.D./M.P.A., and J.D./M.S.W. programs with Touro College, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and LIU-Post.[20]

Touro Law Center has at times offered summer programs in Vietnam, Germany, Croatia, China, India, and Israel.[21][22] Only the Vietnam program was offered for the summer of 2018.[23] In 2011, when the Vietnam program was first offered, Touro Law Center was the only law school to offer such a program within the borders of Vietnam.[24]

Experiential learning programs edit

In September 2013, Touro Law Center joined the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Consortium,[25] which consisted of 31 ABA-accredited law schools that have demonstrated a commitment to innovation in legal education and offer a number of law school courses "that implement a student-centered approach to legal education".[26] The consortium was dissolved in 2017.[27] In 2013, PreLaw Magazine recognized Touro Law Center as one of six law school schools in the nation offering innovative clinical and experiential learning opportunities, highlighting the law school's ProBono Uncontested Divorce Project.[28] Touro Law Center is also a member of the Alliance for Experiential Learning in Law, an alliance that currently has 113 law school and legal service organization members, which was established in 2011 with the goal of integrating experience-based education into the traditional law school curriculum.[29]

In Fall 2006, the Law Center began a pilot program that required all first year students to observe courtroom practice in both the federal Alfonse M. D’Amato United States Courthouse and the John P. Cohalan State Court Complex.[30] In 2009, the Center for Court Innovation issued a report on its three-year study of the pilot program; the report concluded that consideration should be given to expanding the program either through increased observation opportunities or participation of students beyond their first year of law school.[31] As of 2011, the program is a graduation requirement in which all first year students must participate, and upper-level students have the option of continuing the curriculum through coursework and court externships, clerkships, or pro bono projects.[32][33]

Clinics and Centers edit

Touro Law Center's clinical program[34] consists of legal clinics that specialize in the areas of:

  • Bankruptcy & Mortgage Foreclosure[35][36][37][38]
  • Criminal Law (State Defense/Prosecution & Federal Prosecution)
  • Disaster Relief[39][40][41][42]
  • Education and Youth Justice Clinic[43]
  • Elder Law[35]
  • Family Law[35][44][45]
  • Immigration Law[46]
  • Small Business and Not-for-Profit Law
  • Veterans' and Servicemembers' Rights[47][48]

Touro Law Center also hosts the following Institutes and Centers:

  • Aging and Longevity Law Institute[49]
  • Center for Innovation in Business, Law & Technology[50]
  • Institute of Land Use and Sustainable Development Law[51]
  • Jewish Law Institute[52][53]
  • TLC Heart (TLC – Hurricane Emergency Assistance and Referral Team)[54]
  • International Justice Center for Post-Graduate Development

The International Justice Center for Post–Graduate Development serves as a national clearinghouse for the law-school based incubator movement.[55] Led by Fred Rooney, the Center launched Touro's Community Justice Center in 2013, housing eight-ten start-up law firms owned by Touro alumni.[56][57]

The William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst Public Advocacy Center (PAC), established in 2007,[58] has 14 offices and houses on-campus non-profit legal service providers[59] such as the Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc. (grant recipient of the Legal Services Corporation), New York Civil Liberties Union, and the Empire Justice Center (member of the Consumer Federation of America); there are also additional off-campus member affiliates. Thomas Maligno has served as the Executive Director of the Public Advocacy Center since it opened.

History edit

Touro Law Center was established and admitted its first class in the Fall of 1980.[60] The first class graduated in Spring 1983,[60] and in that same year, the Law Center was provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association.[61] It began operations in a building located at 30 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York City, which is now the home of the Penn Club of New York.[62] In 1982, the law school moved to the town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York[60] and the building it occupied for twenty years, formerly Toaz Junior High School.[63] At the time of its move to Huntington, Touro Law Center was the only law school on Long Island to offer a part-time program to students.[64] In April 1986, the Law Center was officially named the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, in honor of Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg, who served as an associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1975 to 1983.[65] Judge Fuchsberg began serving on the Board of Trustees of Touro College at the time it was established in the 1970s, and during his tenure on the Board, he advocated for the establishment, accreditation, and growth of the Law Center.[66] The Law Center achieved full accreditation by the American Bar Association in 1989.[67]

Deans edit

John S. Bainbridge was the dean of the law school from 1982 to 1985.[68] During his tenure, Bainbridge recruited the founding faculty and administrators and guided the school through the first American Bar Association inspection that led to its provisional national accreditation.[68][69]Howard A. Glickstein served as the dean of the Law Center from 1986 to 2004.[67][70] During Glickstein's tenure, the Law Center was accepted as a member of the American Association of Law Schools,[67] which occurred in 1994.[71] During his eighteen-year tenure, Glickstein also oversaw the initial plans for the Central Islip, New York campus and the development of the construction project.[67] Construction on the new campus began in March 2005, shortly after Glickstein's tenure ended.[72] From 2004 to 2012, Lawrence Raful served as dean.[73] During Raful's tenure, the construction of the Central Islip campus took place, opening in 2007.[74][75][10] In 2012, Patricia Salkin was appointed the dean of the law school.[76][77][78] She served until 2016, when she was promoted to the position of provost of graduate and professional studies for the Touro College and University system. Harry Ballan, senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP was subsequently appointed to the position.[79] In June 2019, Elena B. Langan was announced as the new dean of the law school, having previously served as dean of Concordia Law School and interim dean of Nova Southeastern University's Shepard Broad College of Law.[80]

Legal scholarship & publications edit

In May 2014, Touro Law Center was identified by one law school rankings system as the 13th "most undervalued" law school in the country, based on the spread between the Law Center's U.S. News peer reputation and the number of downloads from the Social Science Research Network of Touro law faculty scholarship.[81] This particular system, first established in a law review article in 2006 by two law professors, compares the U.S. News Rankings to scholarly impact as measured by download counts from the Social Science Research Network.[82] In 2013, Touro Law Center launched its SSRN Legal Studies Research Paper Series eJournal.[83]

The students and faculty of Touro Law Center currently publish four journals:[84]

  • Touro Law Review (first published Spring 1985)[85]
  • Touro International Law Review (formerly known as the Touro Journal of Transnational Law; first published Fall 1988)[86]
  • Touro Law Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (first published August 2006)[87]
  • Touro Journal of Experiential Learning (first published Fall 2014)[88]

Employment edit

According to Touro's 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 67.9% of the Class of 2016 had obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment by nine months after graduation.[89] Touro Law Center's Law School Transparency under-employment score for the Class of 2017 is 20.3%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2017 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[89] For the graduating class of 2021, Touro's LST employment score of 59.1% is the lowest of any law school in New York state.[90]

Costs edit

The cost in tuition and fees for attending Touro Law Center full-time for the 2018–19 academic year is $24,900 per semester and $18,605 per semester for part-time programs.[1]

Notable faculty edit

  • Joseph Frank Bianco – Appointed by President George W. Bush as a US District Judge in the Eastern District of New York; teaches National Security and the Law.[91]
  • Sol Wachtler – Former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals;[92] Distinguished Adjunct Professor.[93]

Notable alumni edit

See also edit

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External links edit

  • Official website

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Touro University Jacob D Fuchsberg Law Center 4 commonly known as Touro Law Center 5 is an ABA accredited law school 6 It is located on Long Island New York in the hamlet of Central Islip The Law Center is part of Touro University a private not for profit coeducational institution based in New York City 7 Touro Law CenterParent schoolTouro UniversityReligious affiliationJewishEstablished1980School typePrivateDeanElena B LanganLocationCentral Islip New York United States40 45 43 N 73 11 16 W 40 762 N 73 187738 W 40 762 73 187738Enrollment595 total 1 Faculty94 total 36 full time 1 USNWR ranking167 2023 2024 2 Bar pass rate70 1 2020 first time takers 3 Websitewww wbr tourolaw wbr eduTouro Law Center has 36 full time faculty members and 58 teaching adjunct faculty 1 Of the Touro graduates who took the New York bar for the first time in 2020 70 7 passed vs an overall average of 85 7 3 Contents 1 Campus 2 Programs 2 1 Curriculum 2 2 Experiential learning programs 2 3 Clinics and Centers 3 History 3 1 Deans 4 Legal scholarship amp publications 5 Employment 6 Costs 7 Notable faculty 8 Notable alumni 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksCampus editTouro Law Center is the only law school in Suffolk County New York 8 After briefly beginning operations in Manhattan the Law Center s first campus was established in the town of Huntington which is located in northwestern Suffolk County 9 In 2007 the Law Center moved to its current campus in Central Islip 10 The Central Islip campus consisting of a four story 180 000 square foot building is located within walking distance of both the Alfonse M D Amato United States Courthouse and the John P Cohalan State Court Complex 11 in which the Suffolk County District and Family Courts and the New York State Supreme Court sit 12 Programs editCurriculum edit Students may enroll in either a program to earn a Juris Doctor JD degree 13 or a Master of Laws LLM degree 14 Both full time and part time programs are available to students in the JD program 13 Touro Law Center is one of several law schools in New York State to offer a two year accelerated JD program in which accepted students fulfill their credit requirements of study within 24 months beginning with the summer of their first year and sit for a Bar Examination 26 months after they begin their law school studies 15 In addition Touro Law Center offers an accelerated JD program referred to as a three plus three BA JD program with the University of Central Florida 16 and an accelerated JD Program which allows graduates of foreign law schools to earn a J D degree in two years 17 Touro Law Center offers four concentrations for J D candidates 18 an L L M program for U S law school graduates and a Master of Laws in U S Legal Studies for foreign law graduates 19 and joint J D M B A J D M P A and J D M S W programs with Touro College State University of New York at Stony Brook and LIU Post 20 Touro Law Center has at times offered summer programs in Vietnam Germany Croatia China India and Israel 21 22 Only the Vietnam program was offered for the summer of 2018 23 In 2011 when the Vietnam program was first offered Touro Law Center was the only law school to offer such a program within the borders of Vietnam 24 Experiential learning programs edit In September 2013 Touro Law Center joined the Educating Tomorrow s Lawyers Consortium 25 which consisted of 31 ABA accredited law schools that have demonstrated a commitment to innovation in legal education and offer a number of law school courses that implement a student centered approach to legal education 26 The consortium was dissolved in 2017 27 In 2013 PreLaw Magazine recognized Touro Law Center as one of six law school schools in the nation offering innovative clinical and experiential learning opportunities highlighting the law school s ProBono Uncontested Divorce Project 28 Touro Law Center is also a member of the Alliance for Experiential Learning in Law an alliance that currently has 113 law school and legal service organization members which was established in 2011 with the goal of integrating experience based education into the traditional law school curriculum 29 In Fall 2006 the Law Center began a pilot program that required all first year students to observe courtroom practice in both the federal Alfonse M D Amato United States Courthouse and the John P Cohalan State Court Complex 30 In 2009 the Center for Court Innovation issued a report on its three year study of the pilot program the report concluded that consideration should be given to expanding the program either through increased observation opportunities or participation of students beyond their first year of law school 31 As of 2011 the program is a graduation requirement in which all first year students must participate and upper level students have the option of continuing the curriculum through coursework and court externships clerkships or pro bono projects 32 33 Clinics and Centers edit Touro Law Center s clinical program 34 consists of legal clinics that specialize in the areas of Bankruptcy amp Mortgage Foreclosure 35 36 37 38 Criminal Law State Defense Prosecution amp Federal Prosecution Disaster Relief 39 40 41 42 Education and Youth Justice Clinic 43 Elder Law 35 Family Law 35 44 45 Immigration Law 46 Small Business and Not for Profit Law Veterans and Servicemembers Rights 47 48 Touro Law Center also hosts the following Institutes and Centers Aging and Longevity Law Institute 49 Center for Innovation in Business Law amp Technology 50 Institute of Land Use and Sustainable Development Law 51 Jewish Law Institute 52 53 TLC Heart TLC Hurricane Emergency Assistance and Referral Team 54 International Justice Center for Post Graduate DevelopmentThe International Justice Center for Post Graduate Development serves as a national clearinghouse for the law school based incubator movement 55 Led by Fred Rooney the Center launched Touro s Community Justice Center in 2013 housing eight ten start up law firms owned by Touro alumni 56 57 The William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst Public Advocacy Center PAC established in 2007 58 has 14 offices and houses on campus non profit legal service providers 59 such as the Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee Inc grant recipient of the Legal Services Corporation New York Civil Liberties Union and the Empire Justice Center member of the Consumer Federation of America there are also additional off campus member affiliates Thomas Maligno has served as the Executive Director of the Public Advocacy Center since it opened History editTouro Law Center was established and admitted its first class in the Fall of 1980 60 The first class graduated in Spring 1983 60 and in that same year the Law Center was provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association 61 It began operations in a building located at 30 West 44th Street in Manhattan New York City which is now the home of the Penn Club of New York 62 In 1982 the law school moved to the town of Huntington in Suffolk County New York 60 and the building it occupied for twenty years formerly Toaz Junior High School 63 At the time of its move to Huntington Touro Law Center was the only law school on Long Island to offer a part time program to students 64 In April 1986 the Law Center was officially named the Touro College Jacob D Fuchsberg Law Center in honor of Judge Jacob D Fuchsberg who served as an associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1975 to 1983 65 Judge Fuchsberg began serving on the Board of Trustees of Touro College at the time it was established in the 1970s and during his tenure on the Board he advocated for the establishment accreditation and growth of the Law Center 66 The Law Center achieved full accreditation by the American Bar Association in 1989 67 Deans edit John S Bainbridge was the dean of the law school from 1982 to 1985 68 During his tenure Bainbridge recruited the founding faculty and administrators and guided the school through the first American Bar Association inspection that led to its provisional national accreditation 68 69 Howard A Glickstein served as the dean of the Law Center from 1986 to 2004 67 70 During Glickstein s tenure the Law Center was accepted as a member of the American Association of Law Schools 67 which occurred in 1994 71 During his eighteen year tenure Glickstein also oversaw the initial plans for the Central Islip New York campus and the development of the construction project 67 Construction on the new campus began in March 2005 shortly after Glickstein s tenure ended 72 From 2004 to 2012 Lawrence Raful served as dean 73 During Raful s tenure the construction of the Central Islip campus took place opening in 2007 74 75 10 In 2012 Patricia Salkin was appointed the dean of the law school 76 77 78 She served until 2016 when she was promoted to the position of provost of graduate and professional studies for the Touro College and University system Harry Ballan senior counsel at Davis Polk amp Wardwell LLP was subsequently appointed to the position 79 In June 2019 Elena B Langan was announced as the new dean of the law school having previously served as dean of Concordia Law School and interim dean of Nova Southeastern University s Shepard Broad College of Law 80 Legal scholarship amp publications editIn May 2014 Touro Law Center was identified by one law school rankings system as the 13th most undervalued law school in the country based on the spread between the Law Center s U S News peer reputation and the number of downloads from the Social Science Research Network of Touro law faculty scholarship 81 This particular system first established in a law review article in 2006 by two law professors compares the U S News Rankings to scholarly impact as measured by download counts from the Social Science Research Network 82 In 2013 Touro Law Center launched its SSRN Legal Studies Research Paper Series eJournal 83 The students and faculty of Touro Law Center currently publish four journals 84 Touro Law Review first published Spring 1985 85 Touro International Law Review formerly known as the Touro Journal of Transnational Law first published Fall 1988 86 Touro Law Journal of Race Gender and Ethnicity first published August 2006 87 Touro Journal of Experiential Learning first published Fall 2014 88 Employment editAccording to Touro s 2018 ABA required disclosures 67 9 of the Class of 2016 had obtained full time long term JD required employment by nine months after graduation 89 Touro Law Center s Law School Transparency under employment score for the Class of 2017 is 20 3 indicating the percentage of the Class of 2017 unemployed pursuing an additional degree or working in a non professional short term or part time job nine months after graduation 89 For the graduating class of 2021 Touro s LST employment score of 59 1 is the lowest of any law school in New York state 90 Costs editThe cost in tuition and fees for attending Touro Law Center full time for the 2018 19 academic year is 24 900 per semester and 18 605 per semester for part time programs 1 Notable faculty editJoseph Frank Bianco Appointed by President George W Bush as a US District Judge in the Eastern District of New York teaches National Security and the Law 91 Sol Wachtler Former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals 92 Distinguished Adjunct Professor 93 Notable alumni editKathleen M Rice 1991 U S House of Representatives New York s 4th Congressional District November 2014 94 95 Sal Iacono 1996 Comedian writer and game show host best known for his roles on The Man Show and the late night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live 96 Gata Kamsky 2004 Chess grandmaster and a former World Rapid Chess Champion Bikram Singh musician Housing attorney said to be the most famous Bhangra fusion star in North America according to the New York Times 97 Martin Tankleff 2014 Activist 98 Bradley Blakeman 1986 Fox News Contributor Former Senior Advisor to President George W Bush Georgetown University politics professor 99 Gabriel Silva Marques 2014 Former Deputy Nassau County Comptroller member of the Portuguese Government s Diaspora Advisory Council Conselho das Comunidades Portuguesas 100 Joseph Addabbo Jr 1992 New York State Senator 15th Senate District 101 John J Flanagan 1990 Former New York State Senator 2nd Senate District 102 Al Graf 2002 Former New York State Assemblyman 5th Assembly District 103 Marc Alessi 2003 Former New York State Assemblyman 1st Assembly District Kenneth LaValle 1987 Former New York State Senator 1st Senate District 104 Sam Nunberg 2009 Former campaign advisor to Donald Trump 105 See also editList of Jewish universities and colleges in the United States Law of New YorkReferences edit a b c d e f TOURO COLLEGE 2019 Standard 509 Information Report PDF Retrieved 6 August 2023 Touro University Fuchsberg Best Law Schools US News 15 August 2022 Retrieved 6 August 2023 a b First Time Bar Passage Calendar Year 2020 Touro Law Home Page 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