Sandra F. Sperino
Assistant Professor of Law



Professor Sandra Sperino joined the Temple Law faculty in Fall 2008. She previously served as visiting professor at University of Cincinnati College of Law and Saint Louis University School of Law, where she taught Employment Discrimination, Disability Law, Remedies, Civil Procedure, and Property. She also was selected to participate in the Lawless Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois College of Law, teaching advanced civil procedure/conflict of laws and employment discrimination. Prior to her academic career, Professor Sperino was a clerk for the Hon. Donald J. Stohr of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, and an attorney for the litigation and labor and employment departments at Lewis, Rice & Fingerish in St. Louis. There she drafted the petition for writ of certiorari and co-authored the brief argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Sell, in which the Court determined the government must satisfy certain criteria before it can medicate pre-trial detainees to make them competent for trial. Professor Sperino is a contributing editor to several employment law books published by the American Bar Association.

Professor Sperino received her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. She is admitted to practice law for the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the states of Illinois and Missouri.

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Education
J.D., University of Illinois College of Law
M.S., University of Illinois College of Journalism
B.A., Texas Tech University

Teaching Areas
Torts, Employment Discrimination, Civil Procedure


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