Touro Law Center announced the appointment of Patricia Salkin as its new dean. Salkin is Associate Dean and Professor at Albany Law School. She became Associate Dean in 1998.
Salkin holds a JD from Albany Law School and is an expert in the area of land use. She has substantial political involvement in New York, having served on the transition teams for Eliot Spitzer (as both Governor and Attorney General) and Attorney Generals Andrew Cuomo and Eric Schneiderman.