The following articles were written and published by student editors of Temple’s International and Comparative Law Journal (TICLJ) as part of Volume 38 during the 2023–2024 academic year. Each piece reflects our students’ dedication to exploring timely and complex issues in international and comparative law, contributing thoughtful scholarship to the global legal conversation.

Paved with Good Intentions? Urban Planning and Smart City Policies in South Korea and Japan

By Alex Arend

Moral Compass Pointing South: Comparing the United States’ Lack of Patent Morality Exclusion with Europe and Japan

By Rick Evans

The Social Media Battlefield: User-Generated Content as Evidence in International Atrocity Cases

By Mikiko Galpin

In Between the Global North-South Divide: Reassessing Climate Reparations as State-State Transaction

By Randy Goldson

(Free) Will of the People?: Personal Free Will Beliefs and Criminal Legal Systems?

By Dorothy Hayes

Housing First or Housing Last? A comparison of Finland’s Housing First Success to the Unites States’ Repeated Attempts at Housing First

By Josephine Messina