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    Song or Statement? d4vd’s Lyrics vs the Law

    October 20, 2025By Nadia Bernal

    The recent public conversation flooding news and social media outlets around singer d4vd, highlights how quickly song lyrics can become entangled with criminal suspicion.[i]  David Anthony Burke, professionally known as d4vd, is an American singer and songwriter whose rise to fame was largely shaped by online culture.[ii] He first gained attention by creating Fortnite gameplay […]

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    Justice May Be Blind, But AI Is Watching–and Quietly Reshaping the Legal Field

    September 24, 2025By Leyda Mujica

    The courtroom drama is no longer just human; Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is writing, arguing, and even confusing the script. A trending story that caused outrage in the courtroom and memes on social media occurred in the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department earlier this year. Jerome Dewald, a plaintiff representing himself […]

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    The Right to Remain Gangsta

    January 11, 2021By Ricardo Jerome

    For many years Hip Hop has been a prevalent genre in music and is becoming increasingly popular each year. Particularly, the relationship between Hip Hop and the laws of this land has been violent to say the least. Being that Hip Hop emerges from the culture of inner-city communities, it is not difficult to see why there would be tension.

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