Email: Rose.Tempowski@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 1279
Rose Tempowski is a Principal Teaching Fellow in Criminal Justice and Clinical Legal Education and the Undergraduate Programme Lead at Southampton Law School. She is also the Director of the SLS Death Penalty Casework Clinic.
She specialises in Criminal Law, Human Rights (Death Penalty) and American Law.
Rose was a finalist for OUP Law Teacher of the Year in 2025.
Rose's PhD research designed a novel method of analysing and grading the quality of scientific narratives and authorities presented to US state legislative committees. Her research examined whether neuroscientific evidence regarding adolescent brain development, and its impact on decision-making, was discussed when state legislative committees considered legislation proposing alterations to the upper age limit of juvenile court jurisdiction, or the mechanism by which young people are transferred from the juvenile court to the adult criminal court.
Rose has recently collaborated on a book chapter examining the application of the common law test for dishonesty in academic misconduct cases. Rose is also collaborating with Prof. Sarah Cooper at Birmingham City University on research examining the role of student identities in clinical legal education decision-making.
Rose is the Module Lead for Miscarriages of Justice (LAWS3089) and Legal Skills (LAWS1023/2037) on the LLB and also teaches tutorials for Criminal Law (LAWS1020). Rose is Module Lead for the legal component of the interdisciplinary module Engineering Management and Law (FEEG2006) in partnership with the Engineering and Business Schools.
As Director of the the SLS Death Penalty Casework Clinic, Rose supervises a team of undergraduate students conducting practical clinical work on active death penalty cases in the United States.
Rose was a finalist for OUP Law Teacher of the Year in 2025.
Rose joined the University of Southampton in 2022. Previously, she was a Senior Tutor at the University of Law where she taught across the LLB, LPC, GDL, MA and the PGDip/MA. Before this, Rose taught Criminal Law at Birmingham City University.
She was admitted as an attorney in the state of New York in 2013 and, through the legal charity ‘Amicus’, spent most of 2017 at the Arizona Capital Representation Project. In 2019, Rose was invited to be a Scholar-in-Residence at the Law Library of Congress in Washington DC to make use of their catalogue for her doctoral project.
Rose established the Death Penalty Casework Clinic ('DPCC') at SLS in 2023, which supervises undergraduate law students to assist with document review on active death penalty cases in the US. The DPCC is currently the only Clinic of its kind in the UK and is a unique opportunity for students to engage with clinical legal education from day one of their degrees. The DPCC won a Champions of Justice Award in 2024 for its exceptional work and had previously been shortlisted for the same award in 2023.