Temple Law Review

On Thursday, November 17, TLR held our annual symposium, Sovereign Identity Crisis: Self, State and Collective in a Digital Age in collaboration with Temple iLIT.

Thank you to all of our incredible speakers who enlightened our community on the intersections of technology and the law and the next steps to navigate the digital age trajectory.

Hey alumni! Please join us for an alumni happy hour on November 11th at 5 PM at Lou Bird’s.

Please RSVP by November 1st using the link in our bio! We can’t wait to see you there!

Hey alumni! Miss celebrating the end of a long cite check? Please join TLR Volume 95 for happy hour on November 11th at 5 PM (Location TBD)!

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Congratulations to TLR's Volume 95 Editorial Board! We can't wait to see what Volume 95 accomplishes.

Congratulations to TLR’s new Staff Editors! We can’t wait to get started on Volume 94.

The call for proposals for the TLR Vol.94 Symposium has gone out! Register here: https://bit.ly/3gL2HE5

Here is the final Article from Volume 93, Issue 3: "The (De)mystification of Environmental Injustice: A Dramatistic Analysis of Law" by Jeff Todd. Available here:

The (De)mystification of Environmental Injustice: A Dramatistic Analysis of Law Although Kenneth Burke is the preeminent rhetorician of the modern era, and his theories have been applied to issues of social change and the environment (including by legal scholars), the role of …

We are still sharing Articles from Issue 3 that are now online! Next up from Catherine Ross Dunham is "Reputation Evidence in the Age of Instagram." The full Article is available here:

Reputation Evidence in the Age of Instagram This Essay explores the reliability of reputation evidence. Specifically, the Essay examines the historical characterization of reputation evidence as reliable based on the construct of an in-perso…

Our next featured Article from Issue 3 is "Antitrust Class Certification: The Use of Statistical and Representative Evidence to Establish Predominance of Common Proof" by Roberta D. Liebenberg and Ellen Meriwether. Available online here:

Antitrust Class Certification: The Use of Statistical and Representative Evidence to Establish Predominance of Common Proof This Essay discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, a class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), in which the Court upheld the plaintiffs’…

Next up from Volume 93, Issue 3: "An End to Gerrymandering: How Rigorous and Neutral Design Criteria Can Restrain or End Partisan Redistricting" by Brian Gordon. Available here:

An End to Gerrymandering: How Rigorous and Neutral Design Criteria Can Restrain or End Partisan Redistricting Gerrymandering, or partisan redistricting, is the “art” of packing an opposing party’s likely voters into separate districts and fragmenting remaining concentrations of opposing v…

Next up from Issue 3 is "Have a Little (Good) Faith: Towards a Better Balance in the Qualified Immunity Doctrine" by Samantha K. Harris. The full Article is available online here:

Have a Little (Good) Faith: Towards a Better Balance in the Qualified Immunity Doctrine “Qualified immunity balances two important interests — the need to hold public officials accountable when they exercise power irresponsibly and the need to shield officials from harassm…

The first Article from Vol. 93, Issue 3 is "No Exit: How Litigation Failed Incarcerated Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Marsha Levick. It's now available online here:

No Exit: How Litigation Failed Incarcerated Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the nation, hundreds of thousands of incarcerated individuals, including tens of thousands of youth, were trapped in highly contagious, congregate care correct…