Patricia E. Salkin is a nationally recognized scholar in land use law and zoning.  She is the author of the 4-volume American Law of Zoning, 5th edition (Thomson Reuters), the 3-volume New York Zoning Law and Practice, 5th edition (Thomson Reuters), and the popular Land Use Law in a Nutshell (West Academic).   A former Chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the American Planning Association, and author of more than 100 books, articles, chapters and publications on land use law, Salkin is also the host of the popular Law of the Land blog.  She is a past Chair of the American Bar Association's State and Local Government Law Section, the New York State Bar Association's Municipal Law Section, and the American Association of Law Schools State and Local Government Law Section.  She has received numerous honors and awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Planning Federation.

Salkin is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the Graduate and Professional Divisions of Touro University where she is also a Professor of Law.  She served as Dean of Touro University's Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and prior to that was Associate Dean and Director of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School where she was also the Raymond & Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law.  She has also taught land use law in the graduate level Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University at Albany.