Faculty Scholarship Archives

Supply Chain Commons: Organic Waste, Climate Change and Regenerative Farming

by Amy J. Cohen (Robert J. Reinstein Chair in Law at Temple University), Stephen Healy and Abby Mellick Lopes

October 21, 20226 “Supply Chain Commons: Organic Waste, Climate Change and Regenerative Farming in Peri-Urban Sydney” explores how new socio-ecological relationships can be built around waste through collaborative, practice-based experimentation. Centered in Sydney, Australia, the project traces how spent coffee grounds (SCG) move from inner-city cafés to regenerative farms through what the authors call a

Balancing Nationalities in International Investment Law

by Professor Peter J. Spiro (Temple Law)

September 23, 2026 How can you tell where someone is “from”? Historically, an individual’s national identity was singular, starting with formal nationality. One’s national center of gravity was readily determinable. Not so today. Determining one’s primary national identification is no longer an easy thing in many cases. This is consequentially enabled by the growing acceptance