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.
Right of publicity and privacy law scholar Jennifer Rothman locates the origins of the right of publicity—a tort that, broadly, “covers appropriation of one’s name or likeness”—in a world-changing technological development: the camera. With the emergence of personal photography, people began to discover, to their horror, that their images were discreetly captured in public and […]
In 2004, Janet and Jeff Crouch removed their traditional grass lawn and replaced it with species native to their Maryland home, like swamp milkweed, sunflowers, and scarlet bee balm. Their lawn did not require pesticides or fertilizers to flourish since their plants were well-suited to the conditions of their native environment. Over the years, as […]
This Article analyzes the largely unexplored phenomenon of militant civilians engaged in efforts to police and silence activism that challenges entrenched American power systems and economic distributions placing whites atop the social hierarchy in the United States. I argue that this civilian enforcement is an unregulated vessel for state-sponsored violence meant to silence the contestation […]
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, […]
The copyright litigation surrounding Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” illustrates a growing concern in the music industry: the misuse of copyright law to monopolize elements of the public domain. Central to these disputes is the selection and arrangement doctrine, which allows protection for original combinations of unprotectable elements. However, courts have struggled to […]
The Supreme Court’s conclusion in United States v. Rahimi evinces a gap in protection for victims of domestic violence. Due to remaining unclarity in the interpretation of historical analogues of the Second Amendment, and the fact that challenges to the Amendment will continue to be decided on a case-by-case basis, greater civil protection is needed where […]
Confidence in our federal courts is at an all-time low. Mired in ethical scandals and lurching aggressively to the right, the Supreme Court has been a target both for blame and reform. But as important as Supreme Court reform is, that narrow focus misses the bigger picture and perhaps a bigger problem. After all, most […]
Private equity (PE) has come to health care. With it comes layoffs, cuts, and new pressures for providers; higher prices for payers; and questions from patients about quality and excessive care. PE firms, driven solely by a profit motive, take over health care entities, “lean” them down, load them with debt, and hope to extract […]
The Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) is the single most unpopular antitrust law among practitioners and scholars in the field. It has been the target of withering criticism for many years. In 1966, Robert Bork disparaged it as “the Typhoid Mary of Antitrust.” Others, such as the bipartisan Antitrust Modernization Commission in 2007, offered criticisms with more […]
Legal scholars have made important explorations into the opportunities and challenges of generative artificial intelligence within legal education and the practice of law. This Article adds to this literature by directly addressing members of the legal academy. As a collective, law professors, who are responsible for cultivating the knowledge and skills of the next generation […]