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New Website addresses Hip-Hop's impact on Law and Culture
| Website Date: | 2009-08-20 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-05-14 |
| Announcement ID: |
168705 |
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West Virginia University College of Law
*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***
DATE: April 23, 2009
HipHopLaw.com provides unprecedented analysis of the intersection of hip hop and the law.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – American University Washington College of Law Professor Pamela D. Bridgewater, in conjunction with West Virginia University College of Law Professor andré douglas pond cummings and third year law student Brian Welch, proudly announce the launch of a unique new website examining hip hop’s influence on law and society: www.HipHopLaw.com.
The website features legal academics, intellectuals and music executives debating hip hop’s impact, for both good and ill, on U.S. and international law and culture. Recent articles have examined Republican Party National Chairman Michael Steele’s efforts to give the GOP a “hip hop makeover”, commercial radio’s impact on hip hop’s glorification of gangster culture, and the reasons behind the current lack of prominent female rappers.
"Hip hop has profoundly impacted United States culture in obvious ways,” states cummings. “What has been less explored, however, is the impact that the hip hop movement has had on the law and the attitudes of law makers and law abiders.” Continues cummings, “This website will analyze, with precision, the ways that hip hop music has left a global footprint and how it continues to impact the law and those that decide whether to abide by it or not.”
HipHopLaw.com aims to continue the discussions developed at The Evolution of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop’s Influence on Law and Culture, a symposium conducted at the West Virginia University College of Law on February 12-13, 2009. That event featured keynote speakers Dr. Cornel West and Talib Kweli as well as over 20 leading intellectuals from across the country exploring the impact of hip hop on U.S. law and culture.
In addition to Bridgewater, cummings and Welch, the website features analysis from the following contributors:
Akilah Folami, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School; Horace Anderson, Associate Professor of Law, Pace Law School; Olufunmilayo Arewa, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern Law School; Anthony Farley, Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School; Nick J. Sciullo, President & CEO, Nick J. Sciullo Consulting, LLC; Tonya M. Evans, Assistant Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law; D. Aaron Lacy, Associate Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law; Reginald L. Robinson, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law; and Kamille Wolff, Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
CONTACT:
Pamela D. Bridgewater
Professor of Law
American University
Washington College of Law
pbridgewater@wcl.american.edu
202.274.4065
andré douglas pond cummings
Professor of Law
West Virginia University College of Law
andre.cummings@mail.wvu.edu
pbridgewater@wcl.american.edu
304.293.7776
Brian Welch
Manager
HipHopLaw.com
brian.richard.welch@gmail.com
304.203.0212
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Brian Welch
Manager
HipHopLaw.com
brian.richard.welch@gmail.com
304.203.0212
Visit the website at http://www.hiphoplaw.com
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