Founded in 1927, Temple Law Review is a student-edited, quarterly journal dedicated to providing a forum for the expression of new legal thought and scholarly commentary on important developments, trends, and issues in the law.
Overall, this Article intends to support trial judges as they endeavor to promote fairness in the trial process. To this end, Section III of this Article provides a series of questions distilled from the voluminous case law on the topic, evidentiary principles, and observations about the common themes of the rap genre. These questions serve […]
This rule—Pennsylvania’s progeny of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Rule 8.4(g)—has ignited public debate: weighing the First Amendment’s protections for political expression against the need for state bar association regulations on attorneys to ensure the integrity of the judicial system, a system which has never been more threatened.
It appears the time of reckoning has come for Live Nation‑Ticketmaster. Recent litigation and growing public discontent have created the opportune landscape to hold the company accountable for its unchecked monopoly power and push for Live Nation’s divestiture from Ticketmaster. This Comment argues that the Ninth Circuit’s finding that Live Nation‑Ticketmaster’s arbitration clause was unconscionable is further evidence […]
Overall, this Article intends to support trial judges as they endeavor to promote fairness in the trial process. To this end, Section III of this Article provides a series of questions distilled from the voluminous case law on the topic, evidentiary principles, and observations about the common themes of the rap genre. These questions serve […]
The United States Supreme Court made a fatal error in its 2024 decision Trump v. United States. In what the Supreme Court convinced itself was a careful and methodical approach to protect the dignity and efficacy of the office of the President of the United States, the Court created a precedent that poses a direct risk […]
Racialized migration control policies increasingly subject migrants of color to systemic harms, including death. As the root causes of migration remain unaddressed, global forced displacement and migrant deaths have reached unprecedented levels while receiving states respond with increasingly violent and lethal force. In the United States, the Trump administration’s policies have built upon decades-long restrictionist […]
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was signed into law nearly sixty years ago. But in 2013, the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder opinion effectively gutted the VRA’s preclearance requirement, which required states with a history of discriminatory voting laws to submit proposed voting law changes for federal approval. The Supreme Court determined that the […]
It is considered “good law” in Pennsylvania that prosecution can bring a violation of probation or parole (VOP) hearing for a direct violation of the conditions of parole even before the alleged violation’s substantive criminal trial takes place. Mrs. Kates’s name has since become synonymous with pretrial VOP hearings for direct violations. This Comment calls […]
In 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported that it had received more than thirty‑five million images and videos to review for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). CSAM is typically known in the legal system as child pornography. However, organizations such as the NCMEC and the U.S. Department of Justice now […]
Over the course of the last five decades, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has become ingrained as a critical safety net for low‑income workers with children. For more than twenty‑five years, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) has supplemented this safety net. As a result of Congress enacting these refundable tax credits, the Internal Revenue […]