TOURO LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR SAMUEL LEVINE HONORED WITH NYS BAR ASSOCIATION ETHICS COMMITTEE AWARD

ALBANY, NY (01/26/2017)(readMedia)-- The Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association has awarded Touro Law Center Professor Samuel Levine with its Sanford D. Levy Award. Levine received the award during the State Bar Association's Annual Meeting in New York City on January 25.

The Sanford D. Levy Award, named for a former member of the Committee, has been granted annually since 1982 to an individual or institution that has significantly contributed to an understanding of professional ethics.

"We have given the Sanford Levy Award to many of the leading academics in the field of legal ethics," said Marjorie E. Gross, of New York City, chair of the Ethics Committee. "Professor Levine's writings and the breadth of his interests make him a worthy recipient of the award."

Levine, who spent time as an appellate prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney's Office, is a professor of law at Touro Law Center in Central Islip, New York. He teaches professional responsibility, as well as criminal law and Jewish law. He is also the director of the Jewish Law Institute.

Levine has published more than 50 law review articles on a variety of topics, including legal ethics, Jewish law, and law and religion. His writings on legal ethics include articles on disciplinary regulation of prosecutors, the proper role of lawyers in the adversarial system, the ethical obligation to go beyond the letter to the spirit of the law, and writings on the question of whether the law is a business or profession.

Levine earned his law degree from Fordham and his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University. Levine also earned a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) from Columbia Law School.

The 72,000-member New York State Bar Association is the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. It was founded in 1876.

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