Jessica Li, LAW ’26, is a rising third-year student at Temple Law School, where she is a staff editor on the Temple Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Competition Team. Before law school, she served as an investigator with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. There, she advocated for the rights of people incarcerated in jails and prisons, authoring a report, Broken Rules: How Pennsylvania Courts Use Cash Bail to Incarcerate People Before Trial, and developing a companion data tool, brokenrulespa.org.
In law school, she has spent much of her time with the Sheller Center for Social Justice. Her projects have included representing an owner-occupant in a quiet title action, investigating chronic disability discrimination by local rehab facilities, and researching whether Philadelphia can employ individuals who lack federal work authorization. Last summer, she interned at the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit. This summer, she will intern with the Capital Habeas Unit at the Federal Community Defender Office in Philadelphia. Her policy interests are, very broadly, civil rights and criminal justice issues. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College.