Isaac Christopher Samuel Alexander Fried LAW ’22 | Member of the Class of 2022 and Law and Public Policy Scholar | Student Commentary Published on April 14, 2021 in Voices @ Temple Law | On April 8, 2021, The Institute for International Law and Public Policy presented “The Biden Pivot,” a panel of experts …
Thursday, October 29 | Noon | Zoom: https://temple.zoom.us/j/91913466552 Natasha’s work focuses on the economic exploitation anddiscrimination against low-wage Latina/o immigrant workers, aswell as legal support in the face of the economic andhumanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. She works on both domesticlitigation and international advocacy before human rightsmechanisms concerning issues including: …
On Friday, February 21, 2020, Temple Law’s Institute for International Law and Public Policy held an all-day roundtable discussion of a forthcoming book manuscript by Professor Darryl Robinson of Queen’s University Faculty of Law entitled “Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law.” Twelve experts in international …
For the second year in a row, a team of Temple Law students has traveled to The Hague to represent the United States at the international round of the International Criminal Court Moot Court competition. Their path to the Netherlands went through Pace Law School, where Alison Smeallie LAW ’19, …
On April 1, 2015, Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy and Professor of Law, presented the 2015 Friel-Scanlan Lecture, “Revealing Disparities: Empirical Studies of the Asylum Process.”
Penn State Law Prof. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will be discussing her new book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases. Given Congress’s failure to legislate immigration reform, this is the most important topic in immigration law at the moment. She will be joined by Widener Prof. Jill Family, an …
Presenting pre-publication works-in-progress to one’s colleagues at home and away is a central part of academic life. It’s a way to test, engage, and promote scholarly work. In this tradition, Temple’s International Law Colloquium brings top international legal academics to introduce their work to students and the law school community. …
Arizona’s authority to confront its illegal immigration woes was again reined in Wednesday when a federal appeals court threw out a 2006 voter-approved law denying bail to people in the country illegally who are charged with certain crimes…The courts have slowly dismantled laws that sought to draw local police into …
Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland …
Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades …
