Big news! Today we released the Second Edition of the Rap on Trial Legal Guide, co-authored with Charis Kubrin and students in the UCI IP Arts & Tech Clinic! Over 30 pages of new content from new legislation to implicit bias, ghostwriting in rap, and more! #rapontrial

https://news.uci.edu/2024/01/23/uc-irvine-law-criminology-experts-release-second-edition-of-rap-on-trial-a-legal-guide/

Excited to join Shay Lawson, Brian Steel, John Rise, and the one and only Rep Jamaal Boeman today at Penn Law to talk about #rapontrial! Join the live stream — QR code below…

From Penn Law’s ESLS:
Prosecutors are using song lyrics in trials at an alarming rate. In the wake of Jeffrey Williams & Sergio’s Arrests; The RAP Act is Critical to the movement to Protect Black Art. Join us for a discussion of Policy, Evidence, Con Law, & the overarching theme of protecting artists

I was pleased to talk with Jayla Whitfield-Anderson about the YSL/Young Thug trial and the prosecutors' shameless and misguided reliance on rap lyrics in the trial of Young Thug and other YSL artists.

#rapontrial #ysl #ysltrial

https://news.yahoo.com/young-thug-ysl-trial-underway-as-lawyers-challenge-use-of-rap-lyrics-in-rico-case-171342026.html

Wow, This is neat! #rapontrial
RT @[email protected]
“It’s getting hot in here. In a motion to exclude rap lyrics from trial — Goodbye Earl by the Dixie Chicks and Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash was just admitted to show that lyrics are only ever used against Black people in a criminal trial…” 🧵🪡👇

https://twitter.com/fodderyfodder/status/1611063814216376320?s=46&t=Pn6mHY7_swZw-ki3ZAVTQQ

A huge honor to be in the company of so many brilliant people speaking out on this issue. The ubiquitous but once little-known practice of #RapOnTrial must end. #ProtectBlackArt

https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/1587443041094324224