The Temple 10-Q

Of Bitcoins and Garden Gnomes

Cash is a great medium of exchange. It is very efficient. If someone wants to buy a garden gnome at a garden store, there are very few hurdles to the transaction. The store does not require identification and there is no need to pay a transfer fee or monitor a bank account for the funds

Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Major League Baseball

by Ken Jacobsen (Temple Law Professor)

Third-year law student Han Gil Lee, former Temple Law Professor N. Jeremi Duru and I recently formed Global Sporting Integration LLC (GSI), a consulting firm specializing in assisting Minor and Major League Baseball (MLB) players from Asian countries successfully transition to the United States. During the 2013 season, approximately 60 Asian-born players competed in MLB

Bringing Big-Data Analytics to Law

by Scott Burris

Legal academics are in the business of coming up with new ideas and research results, but it’s not often that a research project in law produces a new technology. That rare brand of lightning has struck the Law School’s Public Health Law Research Program, producing Temple Law’s first technology transfer spin-off and, we hope, changing

The New Delaware One-Step: DGCL Section 251(h) Revolutionizes Delaware Merger Practice

by Christopher M. DiVirgilio, (LAW '10)

Section 251(h) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) became effective on August 1, 2013 and is quickly becoming a staple of mergers and acquisitions practice. In certain circumstances, Section 251(h) expedites friendly acquisitions by eliminating the need for a stockholder vote on a second-step merger following consummation of a tender or exchange offer

The Value of “Legal Issues in Strategic Business Planning”

by Elena R. Noel, (LAW '14)

The “Legal Issues in Strategic Business Planning” course is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested in practicing law in an in-house setting, or in learning generally how to deal with clients. The course is offered in conjunction with the Fox School of Business’s Enterprise Management Consulting Practice (EMC). The EMC program allows Fox

The Purpose of a Corporation: A Brief History

by Harwell Wells (Temple Professor of Law)

What is the purpose of a corporation? Today, the standard answer is that a corporation’s purpose is to benefit its shareholders – academics speak of the “shareholder primacy norm,” and many talk of corporate managers’ task as “shareholder wealth maximization.” Even apparently selfless corporate acts, such as charitable donations, are justified as ultimately benefiting shareholders

The New Investor

by Tom C.W. Lin

A sea change is happening in finance. Machines appear to be on the rise and humans on the decline. Human endeavors have become unmanned endeavors. Human thought and human deliberation have been replaced by computerized analysis and mathematical models. Technological advances have made finance faster, larger, more global, more interconnected, and less human. Modern finance

Conversation with Murray Shusterman

by Books Schatschneider

Murray Shusterman, Senior Counsel at Fox Rothschild, LLP and Temple Law School Class of 1936, sits down with Professor Rob Bartow to talk about his enrollment in Temple Law School’s first day division class, his time as a Deputy City Solicitor of Philadelphia, and how students find their legal calling.

Forging New Paths: Ajay Raju on Innovation

by Books Schatschneider

Harold E. Kohn Chair and Professor of Law Jonathan Lipson talks with Ajay Raju (LAW ’96), Partner at Reed Smith, about professional success and innovation in legal education and practice.

Temple’s Business Law Society

by Andreas N. Andrews (LAW '14)

If you are a Temple law student interested in business law, where do you go? One answer is the Business Law Society (“BLS”), a student run organization dedicated to educating peers in the field of business law by providing networking opportunities with various legal practitioners in business-related fields, local corporate counsel, faculty and staff, and