Patricia Salkin, director of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, has been appointed the next dean of the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College, Touro announced yesterday. Salkin, 47, is an expert in land-use planning and government ethics who has been at Albany Law for 22 years. She is also associate dean. She will begin at Touro Law on Aug. 1, succeeding Lawrence Raful, who announced last July that he was stepping down after eight years as dean to return to Touro Law’s faculty.
Salkin said in an interview yesterday that she welcomed the opportunity to work with the “practice-ready” students Touro Law tries to produce through its Public Advocacy Center and other programs that provide students with hands-on experience. She also said that Touro Law’s programs with federal and state courts is a plus in graduating students with practical experience in the law. “This is just a really great opportunity for somebody like me for experiential learning and working with practice-ready lawyers,” she said.
