Temple University Beasley School of Law

10/16/2026

The 2026 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation: “Change It Up: Seeking Justice Following Different Paths”

Zane Memeger, executive director of The Pennsylvania Innocence Project and former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, will talk about his journey from federal prosecutor to wrongful conviction advocate. He’ll also share what he’s learned about seeking justice through government, pro bono and public interest work.

Register: https://law.temple.edu/events/the-2026-edward-ross-lecture-november-3-2026/

10/14/2026

Roberto Burgos came to Temple Law as an internationally trained attorney. The LL.M. for Foreign-Trained Lawyers set him on a path to a U.S. legal career.

In Voices, Burgos writes about taking courses alongside JD students, interning in immigration law, and building a network of classmates he still works with today. He went on to found Migrance Initiative, a Philadelphia immigration nonprofit, and wrote Pathway to DOJ Accreditation in English and Spanish.

“Temple gives you the tools and the knowledge to move forward in your career.”

Read his story:

Roberto Burgos LAW '20 shares how Temple's LLM for Foreign-Trained Lawyers launched his career leading an immigration nonprofit in Philadelphia.

10/14/2026

Among other concerns about the bill, Prof. Ken Jacobsen notes that it does not resolve the “critical issue of whether college athletes are employees." “Where does that money come from? Higher tuition? Student fees?” Jacobsen said. “I am not saying that it’s right or wrong. I am only pointing out that ‘employee’ status has additional financial consequences to schools.”

A widely debated bill that could drastically impact the economic landscape of college athletics is making its way through the federal government.

10/13/2026

Introduction to Transactional Skills (ITS) is an innovative three-week course that introduces 1Ls to transactional lawyering. It’s their first chance at Temple Law to learn by doing, and to start seeing themselves as real lawyers.

Working in teams of two, students represent the partners in a small business. They interview their clients, then counsel, draft and negotiate on their behalf.

This year’s course by the numbers:
• 223 1Ls
• 21 upper-level students serving as TAs and clients
• 23 teachers
• 73 alumni who observe the final negotiations

Thanks to Prof. Andrea Monroe and to all who make ITS possible.

10/13/2026

What lessons - legal, moral, and social - should we take from the Cornell case? Prof. Marian Braccia joins WHYY's Studio 2 for a candid conversation about sexual assault, consent, and responsibility.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ODvK8uYrGWA

10/12/2026

Prof. Marian Braccia discussed the hurdles to prosecuting sexual assault, including evidentiary challenges, systemic misogyny, and the enormous cost to victims with the Duke. “I cannot imagine what a harrowing and intimidating experience it would be for any victim of a crime … to have to stand up in a courtroom and introduce themselves, put their names on the record, have their likeness out there for the world to see, their identity revealed, and have the most traumatic and again harrowing experience of their life explained in explicit detail,” Braccia said.

https://lnkd.in/ezRZNsnT

Charlotte Shields-Rossi & Josh Imhof | a&e editor & news editor After fierce public backlash, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten called to reopen a criminal investigat…

10/09/2026

Homecoming is tomorrow, and it’s your last chance to save a spot under the Temple Law tent!

Join Temple Law and the Temple Law Alumni Association in Lot K, inside Temple Alumni’s Tailgate Village, to catch up with fellow alumni before the Owls take on the UConn Huskies.

Saturday, Oct. 10
Lot K, Lincoln Financial Field
Tailgate: 12:15–3:15 p.m. | Kickoff: 3:45 p.m.

Registration includes game-day bites, two drink tickets and a Temple Law giveaway. $20 for alumni and guests, $10 for current students.

Tailgate registration does not include a game ticket. A limited number of seats remain in the Temple Law section.

Register for the tailgate: https://lnkd.in/eqmfngjb

Buy game tickets: https://lnkd.in/eg7Z_rtv

10/08/2026

Emmy-winning journalist, author and political analyst Josh Rultenberg, KLN ’11, comes to Temple to talk about his career on both sides of political communication, as a journalist and as a former congressional communications director.

Co-sponsored by Temple Law and the Klein College of Media and Communication, the conversation will also explore his new book, "Draw the Line in Ohio: How One State's Fight for Fair Maps Explains Gerrymandering in America," co-authored with Rory Riley Topping.

📅 Thursday, Oct. 29
🕕 6–7:30 p.m.
📍 Shusterman Hall

Register here: https://now.temple.edu/events/2026-10-29/communicators-draw-line-ohio-conversation-josh-rultenberg

10/08/2026

Temple Law just welcomed the most academically credentialed class in its history.

255 new J.D. students. A median LSAT of 165 and a median GPA of 3.77. Undergraduate degrees from 134 colleges and universities across 33 states and countries.

But credentials are only part of it. Among the 2026 entering class: Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers, Teach for America alumni, five veterans of the Air Force, Army Reserve, Marines, and Navy. Boxers, rowers, a pole vaulter. Filmmakers, playwrights, poets. Nineteen percent are the first in their families to attend college, and 78% spent at least a year out in the world before deciding on law school.

The next generation of Temple Lawyers is poised to take flight.

Meet them here: https://law.temple.edu/news/temple-law-welcomes-strongest-class-in-its-history/

10/04/2026

“There is a pretty good argument to say that this is transformative use. It takes the underlying footage and uses it for a new purpose — it’s not trying to compete with the NFL when they posted it. They are giving it new meaning, a new context under this framework,” says Prof. Guy Rub, who draws a connection between fair use and free speech. “It’s part of the U.S.’s commitment to free speech,” Rub said. ”Free speech sometimes helps causes that you like, and sometimes it’s ones that you don’t. That’s part of free speech.”

When asked if the Department of Homeland Security would comply with the NFL’s request to remove the video, a spokesperson responded with a meme photo of Bugs Bunny saying, “no."