Benjamin Templin
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall);
B.A., Grinnell College
Telephone: 619.374.6930
Email: btemplin@tjsl.edu
Prior to joining the faculty at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Professor Templin was a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focused on general corporate law for early stage technology companies. He also represented venture capital funds as investor’s counsel. Professor Templin holds a J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was a member of the Berkeley Technology & Law Journal and served on the policy committee for admissions requirements. After graduation, 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 was a director of online services at Ziff-Davis Publishing Company and editor-in-chief of MacGuide, a Macintosh computing magazine.
Recent Scholarship
The Public Trust in Private Hands: Investing the Social Security Trust Fund through a Federal Government Corporation, Kentucky Law Journal (Pending publication 2007)
Full Funding: The Future of Social Security, Journal of Law & Politics, Volume 52, #4 (2007 Pending Publication)
Comment, Cornell Law Review, Volume 92, #2, page 291 (2007)
Expensing isn't the Only Option: Alternatives to the FASB's stock option expensing proposal, Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, page 357 (2005)
Subjects Include:
Contracts, Legal Writing, Business Associations, Remedies.