TLR Blog

Temple Law Review’s Blog features interviews, video presentations, and short essays that provide succinct, timely analysis of current legal developments. We welcome submissions from faculty, practitioners, alumni of the Law Review, and current editors/staff. To submit an essay, please email TLRonline@temple.edu with the subject heading “Submission for TLR Blog.”

Posts on the TLR Blog are not edited by Law Review staff. All errors are the author’s own. 

Posted on May 19th, 2019

Margaret Gallagher Thompson (Executive Editor, Temple Law Review, Volume 61), Vice Chair, Private Client Services at Cozen O’Connor, joins the podcast to discuss the impact the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has had on individuals’ tax and estate planning. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on April 9th, 2019

District 163 Rep. Michael Zabel (Staff Editor, Temple Law Review, Volume 82) joins the podcast to discuss a host of gun-control bills making the rounds in Harrisburg. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on February 24th, 2019

Tracie Johnson (TU Law ’18), Equal Justice Works Fellow, joins the podcast to discuss the early rollout of Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate program. She also discusses her fellowship project with Community Legal Services, focused on helping women of color overcome unique barriers to post-conviction employment. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on February 5th, 2019

David K. Inscho (Note/Comment Editor, Temple Law Review, Volume 75), partner at Kline & Specter, joins the podcast to discuss a proposal before the Civil Procedural Rules Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that would no longer limit professional malpractice claims to the county of injury. The proposal would place professional-malpractice plaintiffs on similar footing […]

Posted on December 27th, 2018

Scott F. Cooper (Managing Editor; Pennsylvania Project, Temple Law Review, Volume 65), co-chair of Blank Rome’s Labor & Employment Practice Group, joins the podcast to talk about Philadelphia’s new Fair Workweek, the minimum-wage debate, and how the #MeToo movement is impacting employers and workers. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on December 3rd, 2018

Dina Schlossberg (TU Law ’85), deputy director and senior attorney at Regional Housing Legal Services, joins the podcast to discuss the state of affordable housing in Philadelphia, root causes for the shortage, and efforts and proposals on the state and local level to fill the gap. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on December 3rd, 2018

Kaitlin M. Gurney, an associate at Pepper Hamilton, joins the podcast to discuss media law, libel suits, and the rights of news reporters. Gurney (Note/Comment Editor, Temple Law Review, Volume 82) also shares her thoughts on how social media and consumer preferences are impacting the news industry. The episode is available on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Posted on November 2nd, 2018

Jonathan Grode (TU Law ’08), U.S. Practice Director at Green and Spiegel, joins the podcast to discuss the evolving landscape of business immigration law. Grode, who serves as an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law, also shares humanitarian considerations and an anecdote from 2017’s travel ban. The episode is available on both SoundCloud and […]

Posted on October 4th, 2018

Professor Stefanie A. Lindquist (Editor-in-Chief of Temple Law Review, Volume 61) joins the podcast to discuss the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Lindquist serves as deputy provost and vice president for academic affairs at Arizona State University and has written extensively on the Court, including in her book, “Measuring Judicial Activism.” The […]

Posted on September 17th, 2018

The Parliament Podcast welcomes Judge Nelson Diaz (LAW 1972) to discuss his forthcoming memoir, “Not from Here, Not from There.” The book chronicles Diaz from his youth in the Bronx to his ascent to becoming the first Latino judge to serve in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, general counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban […]