Voices at Temple

LRW Faculty Summer Update: Legal Writing Institute Conference

This summer, Professors Carpenter, DeJarnatt, Margolis, Murray, Stanchi, and Tavares attended the 18th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Professor Kristen Murray shares a short summary of how she and the Temple Law Legal Research and Writing faculty are involved in the Legal Writing Institute. For news from our Legal Research and Writing Faculty, follow @TempleLawLRW.

Summer Internships: The Ella Baker Internship at the Center for Constitutional Rights

This summer I had the amazing opportunity to be an Ella Baker Intern at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City. CCR is a legal organization whose work is centered on supporting social movements. This means that, at CCR, lawsuits are not simply about who wins and loses in the courtroom, but how legal work can support wider systemic change. The Ella...

As a Lawyer and a Citizen

Like so many of my fellow citizens, I have been deeply troubled by the “family separation” policy recently enacted by the Trump administration in furtherance of its stated goal of curbing illegal immigration.  The vast majority of these families arrived at our southern border seeking asylum from unspeakable violence, persecution, and poverty in their home countries.  That they are then subjected to an official...

A Temple Law Family Tradition

Temple Law has a proud history of cultivating outstanding graduates. For the Bradley family however, cultivating outstanding graduates is a family tradition. In 2014, eldest sister Eleanor Bradley graduated from Temple Law. When her younger sisters starting thinking about applying to law school, “It was a no-brainer for me to encourage them to choose Temple,” she said. In 2015, Eileen, the youngest Bradley sister,...

On Temple Lawyers, Mentorship, and Starbursts: Notes from the Breakfast of Champions

Before law school, I was a community organizer for the Children’s Defense Fund, a national child advocacy organization founded and directed by the extraordinary and inimitable civil rights lawyer Marian Wright Edelman.  In her book, Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, Edelman writes of “the crucial influences of the natural daily mentors” in her life, whom she refers to as “lanterns” who lit her path...

2L’s Take Ireland – Spring Break 2018

As a law student, one of the most common questions I get from prospective students is: does my social life suffer when I start law school? The answer: It does, but you can work around it. During my spring break this year, I took a trip with two friends, who are also Temple Law 2Ls, to Ireland for no other reason than we (1)...

IP Moot Court: Leaving your Comfort Zone

This year, I had the honor of being one of four team members to represent Temple Law in the American Intellectual Property Law Association Moot Court Competition. Temple traditionally fields two teams of two students, and this year’s regional competition was held in Boston. Intellectual property is an umbrella term covering several discrete areas of law. This year’s problem had a patent issue and...

Liberty and Justice: Moving from Some to All

When the Democratic National Convention was in Philadelphia, I was interning during my 1L summer at the ACLU of Pennsylvania. ACLU-PA had sent the ACLU of Ohio a care package to survive the Republican National Convention, so ACLU-OH returned the favor. It contained the following magnet: I snagged it—it remains on my fridge. Like many of us, I grew up pledging allegiance to a flag...

Temple Owls are Everywhere – XXIII Olympic Winter Games Edition

My name is Christina and I am a 3L at Temple University Law School. For my last semester of law school I am participating in the Japan study abroad program, which I highly recommend. Living in Tokyo for the semester has been an amazing experience and allowed me to see parts of the world I never imagined visiting. I knew one place I had...

The Justice Lab Clinic: A Student Advocate’s Perspective

For me, coming to law school was not a decision based upon a childhood dream of becoming a lawyer, or an attempt at fulfilling a family tradition. My desire to learn about the law and effect change on a systematic level, only happened after a period of self-development during my sophomore year of college. As I learned more about implicit bias, collateral consequences, and...