Student Scholarship

At the The Temple 10-Q, we seek to highlight both the outstanding work of members of Temple’s business law community and the excellent scholarship our students are producing on a wide range of business law topics. To that end, this edition of The 10-Q introduces a new “Student Business Law Scholarship” feature, where we will from time to time post some of the very best, full-length papers on business law authored by our fantastic students, as selected by the Faculty Editors.

We start with several papers from The Wreck of the Penn Central, a new legal history course at Temple taught by Faculty Editors Broder and Lipson (drawing in particular on Broder’s years as General Counsel for Conrail). The Wreck is an historical case study, organized around the bankruptcy in 1970 of the Penn Central Railroad, the largest such failure on record at the time, and the result of, among other things, the ill-fated merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads. In the Wreck, students are given the opportunity to draft scholarly capstones on any business law topic that interests them that may be related to the issues studied in the class.

This year, we are publishing several papers from last years’ class. A brief summary of each paper with a link to the full paper is provided directly below. We celebrate this serious, outstanding scholarly work by our students and hope you enjoy reading these papers as much as we did! We also wanted to thank and acknowledge Temple Law Alum and member of the Law School’s Board of Visitors Dennis Arouca who helped inspire this idea.

The Faculty Editors
Jonathan Lipson
Andrea Monroe
Jonathan Broder

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