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 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 […]
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 […]
With hydraulic‑like effect, the steep decline in unionization and collective bargaining over the past four decades has precipitated the predominance of individual bargaining between employers and nonunion workers as the central means of wage setting in the United States. Disastrously for U.S. workers, however, this wage‑setting regime has corresponded with workers receiving declining shares of […]
This Comment explores whether a chilling effect should be considered by courts when analyzing irreparable harm for preliminary injunctions in modern Second Amendment litigation. This Comment looks to two circuit court decisions—split on whether to presume irreparable harm if a Second Amendment plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits—to demonstrate that one resolution of […]
Chief Judge Harvey Bartle III, almost fifteen years ago, detailed the origin and development of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1789 into a twenty-first century arbiter of a vast variety of disputes never contemplated by the Framers. Chief Judge Bartle, through studying key cases and the judges’ backgrounds, […]
Since the United States first began thinking about international law and cyberspace in the 1990s, it has been clear to us that international law applies to what States do in cyberspace, just as it does to what they do in other domains. When I say international law, I mean all of it treaties, of course, […]