Taylor Maurer LAW ’22 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar and a Beasley Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Delaware Honors Program, where she studied Criminal Justice and Psychology, with minors in Legal Studies and Domestic Violence Prevention & Services. After college, Taylor worked as a legal assistant for two years at a small private firm in Blue Bell, PA, where she handled correspondence and simple pleadings for family law matters and coordinated office projects to improve case management and client services. During her two years in Blue Bell, Taylor also founded a free volleyball clinic for middle school girls and volunteered as a youth group leader at her church.
During her 1L year, Taylor won the Kohn Prize for her ability to negotiate a mock business contract in Temple’s Introduction to Transactions Skills program. She routinely volunteers at the Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia as a notary public and paralegal to help low income citizens with Trusts and Estates matters. She also helped to pioneer a career workshop for the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project by researching affordable job certifications for returning citizens, in an effort to combat recidivism and inequality in the workforce.
As a Law & Public Policy Scholar, Taylor is working at AEquitas, where she will be researching victim-centered approaches to prosecuting gender-based violence and human trafficking cases. Taylor’s policy interests include immigration, human rights, and child welfare, specifically as they relate to exploitation and human trafficking.