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 October 21st, 2015

Last month the Institute for International Law and Public Policy invited Professors Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia of Penn State and Jill Family of Widener-Harrisburg to Temple to discuss Professor Wadhia’s new book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases.

Click to watch the discussion.

Posted on October 19th, 2015

Judge Rice talks about the Supervision to Aid Re-entry Program (STAR) he co-created with Judge Felipe Restrepo. STAR is a yearlong program that assists former inmates with finding jobs, housing, and acquiring an education. The program has been successful in reducing recidivism in Philadelphia and has served as a model for similar programs throughout the country.

Posted on October 16th, 2015

Judge Rice talks about his career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and as a U.S. Magistrate judge.

Posted on October 15th, 2015

Judge Rice discusses how he ended up at Temple Law, his favorite moments during law school, and his experience as a member of Temple Law Review.

Posted on October 13th, 2015

Tim Rice is a former newspaper reporter whose wife put him through law school while raising their three daughters. He attended Temple Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of Temple Law Review from 1985–86, and later worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney handling criminal prosecutions for nearly twenty years. He currently serves as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Philadelphia and as an adjunct professor at Temple Law School. Together, Judge Rice and Judge Felipe Restrepo created the Supervision to Aid Re-entry Program. STAR is a yearlong program that assists former inmates with finding jobs, housing, and acquiring an education. The program has been successful in reducing recidivism in Philadelphia and has served as a model for similar programs throughout the country.

Posted on June 8th, 2015

by John Basenfelder Professor Robert J. Reinstein’s article Is the President’s Recognition Power Exclusive?, from Volume 86:1 (2013), was cited throughout Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Zivotofsky v. Kerry. The Court held that the president has the exclusive power to grant formal recognition to a foreign sovereign. The heart of the dispute involved a 2002 law that directed the […]

Posted on June 7th, 2015

Congratulations to Jared M. DeBona, whose comment from TLR Vol. 86.4 [“Mom, Dad, Here’s Your Allowance: The Impending Reemergence of Pennsylvania’s Filial Support Statute and an Appeal for its Amendment“] was recently cited in an opinion by Judge Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. See In re Skinner, No. 13-6697, 2015 WL 3400943, at *6 (E.D. Pa. […]

Posted on March 12th, 2015

Congratulations to Frank Weber, whose comment from TLR Vol. 86.1 [“COMPLYING WITH THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: GUIDANCE FOR COURTS AND LEGISLATURES CONSIDERING VIDEOCONFERENCE TESTIMONY PROVISIONS“] was recently cited in a brief for the state of Montana. See Montana v. Curry, 2015 WL 581808 (Feb. 6, 2015).

Posted on February 18th, 2015

Please save the date for Temple Law Review’s Spring 2015 Alumni Banquet and Awards Ceremony Wednesday, May 13, 2015 ● 6:30 PM ● Shusterman Hall More details and RSVP information to follow!

Posted on January 16th, 2015

Congratulations to Pete Veloski, whose comment from TLR Vol. 86.2 [“BARGAIN FOR JUSTICE OR FACE THE PRISON OF PRIVILEGES? THE ETHICAL DILEMMA IN PLEA BARGAIN WAIVERS OF COLLATERAL RELIEF“] was recently cited in a decision by the Supreme Court of Kentucky! See U.S., ex rel. U.S. Attorneys ex rel. E., W. Districts of Kentucky v. Kentucky Bar […]