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.
The individual income tax is the single largest source of revenue for the United States. This important tax is imposed on the wages, salaries, investments, and other types of income that an individual or household earns. Since its founding in 1913 with the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, the individual income tax has been a […]
This Essay is based on my presentation to Temple University Beasley School of Law for the 2022 Frank and Rose Fogel Lecture Series. This is not intended to be a transcript of my remarks given on October 11, 2022, but instead, an opportunity to provide additional information regarding the Tax Division. I want to thank […]
On January 21, 2015, Svetlana Davydova was arrested and charged with treason under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. She was accused of divulging secret military operations that “could have been used against Russian national security.” As it happened, in April 2014, Davydova had spotted a military convoy near her home […]
“Where we work matters.” The wave of remote work that has swept the nation since the COVID-19 pandemic has upended traditional notions about how and where work is performed. Advocates for disabled workers have lobbied for remote work for decades because the standard American workplace is designed around the nondisabled worker. The ability to work […]
College athletes are suddenly benefiting from a windfall of endorsement deals that once were reserved exclusively for nonstudent professionals. Each of these “name, image and likeness” (NIL) endorsement agreements creates a paper trail of documentation. Under state law, those documents typically must be shared with the athletes’ colleges. Records held by state colleges are presumed […]
“It’s no longer about who gets to vote; it’s about making it harder to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all.” President Biden contrasted the tactics of Republican state legislators in states such as Georgia in 2021 with the tactics of white state and local public […]
In January of 2018, Professor Nicholas Meriwether of Shawnee State University was teaching his first Political Philosophy class of the semester. While replying to a question, Meriwether addressed one of his new students as “sir.” The student approached Meriwether after class, informed him that she was a woman, and asked to be addressed with feminine […]
Voting rights and the American electoral system in the 2020s stand in a precarious position. While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (the Act) served as a basis to protect minority voting rights throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, the jurisprudence of the Roberts Court has narrowed its protections and given much greater […]
Research has documented the role that implicit bias plays in the disproportionately high wrongful-conviction rate for people of color. This Article proposes a novel solution to the problem: empowering individual appellate judges, even over the dissent of two colleagues, to send cases back for a retrial when the trial record raises suspicions of a conviction […]
For centuries, the insanity defense has been one of the most hotly debated issues in criminal law. Nonetheless, scientific research shows the insanity defense is rarely used and rarely successful. Furthermore, few defendants who plead insanity have been charged with murder, and defendants found insane pose less of a danger to society than defendants found […]