Benjamin Templin
Benjamin Templin
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall);
B.A., Grinnell College
B.A., Grinnell College
Phone: (619) 961-4317
E-mail: btemplin@tjsl.edu
Professor Templin’s research interests include Social Security reform, retirement planning and investment trends. Prior to joining the faculty in 2003, Professor Templin was a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati where his practice focused on general corporate law for early stage technology companies. Following graduation from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, Professor Templin taught Legal Methods to undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. His web site (www.LawNerds.com) provides instruction in exam writing techniques to first-year law students. Before going to law school, Professor Templin worked in computer magazine publishing.
Courses include:
Contracts, Intellectual Property and Administrative Law.
Scholarships
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
Social Security: Are Sovereign Wealth Funds a Model for Reform?, 35 Fordham Int'l L.J., (forthcoming 2011)
Social Security Reform: Should the Retirement Age be Increased?, 89 Or. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2011)
The Government Shareholder: Regulating Public Ownership of Private Enterprise, 62 Admin. L. Rev. 1127 (2010)
The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, 30 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 45 (2009)
The Public Trust in Private Hands: Social Security and the Politics of Government Investment, 96 Ky L. J. 369 (2008) Download a PDF of the article.
Comment on Neil H. Burchanan's, Social Security and Government Deficits: When Should We Worry?, 92 Cornell L. Rev. 291 (2007)
Full Funding: The Future of Social Security, 22 J.L. & Pol. 395 (2006) Download a PDF of the article.
Expensing Isn’t the Only Option: Alternatives to the FASB’s Stock Option Expensing Proposal, 30 J. Corp. L 357 (2005) Download a PDF of the article.
Presentations
The Political Economy of Government Investment, National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies, colloquium talk, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2009
State Entrepreneurism: The Political Economy of Government Investment, 8th
International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Tokyo, Japan, Nov.
2009
State Entrepreneurism, annual meeting of the Canadian Law & Economic Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct 3, 2009
The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, Twelfth Annual Conference for the Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, Apr. 3, 2009
Creating a United Sates Sovereign Wealth Fund, 7th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 2008
Session Chair (Moderator): Comparative System Analysis Session. 7th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 2008
Legal Writing Institute Writer’s Workshop, participant, July 2008
The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, Fourth International Contracts Conference, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, Feb. 8, 2008
The Public Trust in Private Hands: Social Security and the Politics of Government Investment, 6th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 9, 2007
Session Chair (Moderator): Law & Economics Session. 6th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2007
Technology in the Contracts Classroom: Ideas, Tools, and Questions, Third International Contracts Conference, South Texas College of Law, Feb. 2007
Teaching Contracts: Pedagogy of PowerPoint, AALS Poster Presentation, Jan. 2007
Legal Research and the Google Generation, Legal Writing Institute, June 2006
PowerPoint Pedagogy, Spring Contracts Conference, Texas Wesleyan Law School, Feb. 24, 2006
Moderator, Innovative Methods for Teaching Research, Writing, and Effective Communication Skills to ESL and EFL Students, John Marshall Law School’s Global Legal Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2005
The Amistad Case, Law & Opera Salon, Mar. 2004
Expertise
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Contracts
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Social Security Reform
