Voices at Temple

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...

The Community Lawyering Clinic: A Student Advocate’s Perspective

After I completed my first year at Temple Law, I wanted to experience different areas of the law to better understand my own career path. I spent my first summer in an internship doing policy work, after which I decided to also gain some experience providing direct services to clients. Being that my focus is on health law, I was immediately drawn to the...

The Family Law Clinic: A Student Advocate’s Perspective

Working within the Temple University Legal Aid Office, Family Law Clinic has been, without a doubt, my most rewarding experience in law school. Temple’s Family Law Clinic gives law students the opportunity to work as a legal advocate for clients under the supervision of an attorney and law professor. This gives a student, who may have no prior legal work experience, an opportunity to...

The Elderly Law Project: A Student Advocate’s Perspective

Part of the reason I went to law school was to learn to help people I know navigate the very confusing world of growing old. The Elderly Law Clinical gave me the chance to apply the knowledge I had acquired in my Law & Aging class to real-world situations faced by Philadelphia Seniors. To get the most out of the Clinical, taking Professor Kroll’s...

About Your First Semester Grades: A Word of Encouragement for 1Ls

It’s that time of year again: the beginning of the spring semester at American law schools, when 1Ls get their first set of law school grades. By virtue of your presence in law school, it’s fair to assume that you’re used to some measure of academic success; your fall semester grades may feel like a departure from that history. No matter how you fared,...

Walking While Black – A Reflection

Before the beginning of my last semester at Temple Law, I braved a very cold, windy, and snowy day to take part in the screening of the documentary “Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. is the Answer.” The film attempted to take a balanced approach in discussing the deep-rooted problems in America when it comes to the distrust that many Black Americans have with law enforcement,...