The Temple Law faculty continues to grow in diversity and expertise, adding four new members during the 2025-2026 academic year. “We’re proud and excited to welcome these exceptional scholars and teachers to the Temple Law faculty,” said Dean Rachel Rebouché.
Ruqaiijah Yearby joins Temple as the Judge Clifford Scott Green Chair in Law. A leader in health justice, bioethics, and legal epidemiology, she was the inaugural Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, professor in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy at OSU’s College of Public Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University. She is also co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity and one of the Co-Founders of the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity. At Temple, she will join the Center for Public Health Law Research.
Claudia De Palma brings significant expertise in education and employment law to her new role as an assistant professor after serving as a senior attorney at the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia. Professor De Palma’s recent representations include PILC’s school funding case challenging Pennsylvania’s failure to provide a constitutionally adequate system of public education. At Temple, her research will focus on education law and state constitutional law issues.
Jonathan Harris joins Temple from Loyola Law School Los Angeles as an associate professor with research interests in contracts, labor and employment law, and workforce development. He is a senior fellow with the Student Borrower Protection Center and a past grantee of the University of California Student Loan Law Initiative. Professor Harris has published in the California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Alabama Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review Blog, among other publications. He is also a peer-review referee for the Yale Law Journal and the immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, as well as an executive committee member of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law.
Julie Randolph joins the Temple Law faculty as a practice professor after serving as the head of outreach and instructional services in the law library. In that role, Professor Randolph coordinated the library’s in-class instruction and taught Legal Research & Writing I and II. Her research interests include Pennsylvania legal history and research, legal database utilization of algorithms and artificial intelligence, and rare law books. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and a consultant historian for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Historical Commission.