Symposium Schedule

Temple Law Review BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW

Symposium Schedule

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8:00am Doors Open, light breakfast and coffee available

9:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Professor Kristen E. Murray, Interim Dean, Temple Law School
Hailey McHugh Gilles , Editor-in-Chief & Max Klenk, Symposium Editor, Temple Law Review
Bobby Bostic, Motivational Speaker and Author

Introduction by Riya Saha Shah, CEO, Juvenile Law Center

10:00-11:30am State Court Litigation

PANEL

Jessica Heldman, Fellmeth-Peterson Associate Professor in Child Rights, U of San Diego School of Law
Melissa Lee, Director of the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, Assistant Teaching Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Courtney M. Alexander, Senior Attorney, Juvenile Law Center

Moderated by Jessica Feierman, Senior Managing Director, Juvenile Law Center

11:45am – 1pm Lunch

Address by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska, Susan Carney

Introduction by Sue Mangold, CEO Emeritus, Juvenile Law Center

1:15-3:00pm Abolition and Movement Lawyering

PANEL

jasmine Sankofa, Executive Director, Movement for Family Power
Doreen Govari, Senior Program Associate, Ending Girls Incarceration, Vera Institute of Justice
HyeJi Kim, Senior Youth Defense Counsel, Gault Center
April Lee, Co-Founder and Director of Programs, Philly Voice for Change

Moderated by Sarah Katz, Clinical Professor of Law, Temple Law School

3:00-3:15pm Closing remarks

Marsha Levick, Chief Legal Counsel, Juvenile Law Center

3:15- 5:00pm Reception – stay for light refreshments and mingling

* Brynn C. Chafin, Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2024. Introduction On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term as President of the United States of America.[1] Although his administration has and will continue to affect all parts of American life, it will impact the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act […]

By Fiona Burke, Temple Law Review Volume 96 Staff Editor Liberals have, as exit polls and Bernie Sanders point out, largely lost the working class and, in fact, most of America. There are many reasons for this, all of which have been dissected and analyzed ad nauseum in the past few weeks and likely will be for even years. One such […]

Author: Jasnoor Hundal In early August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, In re Purdue Pharma L.P., and granted certiorari to hear oral argument in December of 2023. The parties were asked to brief and argue “[w]hether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a […]