ICYMI: Zvi S. Rosen, The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions, 24 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 1157 (2007). The exclusive right...
Alexander Hamilton / Constitutional Law / Law and Music / Legal History / Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Hamilton and the Law Joshua A. Jones Lisa A. Tucker, Professor of Law at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, offers an informative and provocative essay collection about...
An interesting post from Neil Wilkof at the IPKat on The broadside ballad as newspaper: When the melody of “Greensleeves” met the latest public hanging in the City of London. Mr. Wilkof writes in part:...
Forthcoming: Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical (Lisa A. Tucker, ed., Cornell University Press, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the...
Filippo Annunziata, Luigi Bocconi University, and Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University (Japan), have published Opera and Law: Critical Notes in Law & Literature (February 2020). Here is the abstract. This...
Matthew Seligman, musician and lawyer, has died from effects of COVID-19. Mr. Seligman was a bass player, having performed with David Bowie, Tori Amos, Thomas Dolby, and among others. He also practiced human rights...
Robin Dembroff, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, and Elise Sugarman, all of Yale University, are publishing What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About Sex and Causes in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract. ...
Do you like your politics with music? Try out Charles Dupee Blake’s Impeachment Polka, in a delightful performance by Michael Adcock of the Washington Conservatory. He has also recorded an album of ragtime for...
Via Above the Law, news that Ari Scharg, a partner at Edelson PC, has written and performed the rap video “Non-Compliant.” If you missed learning about class actions in law school, you’re all set. Check...
Earlier this year, the podcast More Perfect released a stunning project: 27 – The Most Perfect Album. You can hear a collection of songs inspired by the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution. You...
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