Marjorie Silver is Professor of Law at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center in Central Islip, New York. She came to law teaching after a decade in the federal government, where, as Chief Regional Civil Rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education, she enforced non-discrimination laws.

Professor Silver serves as a Trustee of the currently unfunded New York State Lawyer Assistance Trust, having been appointed by Chief Judge Judith Kaye in January 2007. She chaired the Trust’s Law School Outreach Committee from 2007 through 2010. She chaired the AALS Balance in Legal Education Section in 2011. In 2010, Professor Silver was recognized by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs which awarded her one of its five inaugural Law Student Wellness Awards. As someone who herself has suffered from major clinical depression, she engages in outreach on educating others about the illness and provides peer support to lawyers and law students suffering from depression and other mental illnesses.

Professor Silver has an international reputation as a teacher, speaker and writer on emotional competence, psychological-mindedness, legal education, lawyering, and professionalism. She is a contributing author and the editor of The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press 2007).

She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After law school, she served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Joseph S. Lord III, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the New York bar.