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FSU Law Focus - 08/08/2025
Full text linkFrom the Dean: Summer 2025 graduates reception; FSU Law News; The Future of NIL; Meet Your 2025-26 SBA President (Garrison McDaniel); Alumni Association Board of Directors; FSU Faculty Spotlight: Frederick Abbott; Social Media Spotlighthttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1398/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 05/23/2025
Full text linkFrom the Dean: Alumni honored as 50-Year Members of The Florida Bar; FSU Law Alumni News (Judge Thomas Palermo); Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinichttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1407/thumbnail.jp
Calculating the Harms of Political Use of Popular Music
Full text linkWhen Donald Trump descended the escalator of Trump Tower to announce his 2016 presidential bid, Neil Young\u27s Rockin\u27 in the Free World blared from the loudspeakers. Almost immediately, Young\u27s management made clear that the campaign\u27s use of the song was unauthorized. Neil Young was not alone. Trump drew similar objections from dozens of artists during his first two presidential bids. But as a matter of copyright law, it is unclear whether artists can prevent their songs from being played at campaign rallies.
Putting the intricacies ofcopyright licensing aside, what motivates artists to object to the use of their songs by political campaigns? This Article identfies and measures three types of harm artists may reasonably fear. First, an artist may worry that campaign use of their song will harm its market value and popularity. To test that theory, we examine a novel set of industry streaming data to identify any meaningful shifts in streaming consumption after well-publicized campaign uses. Second, campaign use may falsely lead the public to believe that an artist supports or endorses a candidate. And third, an artist may fear a tarnishment effect. That is, consumers may negatively associate the artist or their music with an unpopular candidate even in the absence of any perceived endorsement. We test the endorsement and tarnishment theories through an experimental design that measures consumer reactions to a set of hypothetical campaign uses.
Our data paint a complicated picture. We find some evidence that songs used by the Trump campaign suffered a drop in streaming consumption, but we cannot conclude that campaign use drove that reduced popularity. We also find strong evidence that an artist\u27s perceived support or endorsement of a candidate is material to consumers. But consumers do not appear to infer that an artist endorses a candidate when their campaign uses that artist\u27s song. Finally, we found that less well-established artists are most likely to suffer from tarnishing associations when their songs are used by divisive politicians. Our results do not fully resolve the thorny doctrinal and normative questions at the heart of these controversies, but they do offer a crucial empirical grounding for a recurring policy debate
Utopian constitutionalism in Chile
Full text linkIn this article, we argue that the 2022 Chilean draft Constitution helps to articulate the distinction between a transformative constitutional project and a utopian one. Whereas a transformative project lays down markers for social change that will take time to achieve, a utopian project sets out goals that are unlikely to be achieved within any reasonable timeframe. Utopianism is a product of two relationships. The first is the internal relationship between the transformative goals laid out in a constitution and the institutional pathways through which changes will occur. The second is the external relationship between the goals in the text and the views and support of key groups. In Chile, both relationships were problematic. First, the Convention adopted a draft that was heavy on ambitious programmatic content but lacked a clear vision of how to implement it. Second, the Convention produced a draft that was supported by the ephemeral civil society groups galvanized by the 2019 protests but divorced from the vision of Chile’s parties and public opinion. Some of this was a product of the peculiar electoral context in which the Convention acted, which has already been corrected. But some of it reflects deeper tensions within transformative constitutionalism
In a Broken Dream: Lessons from the Rise and Demise of the Self-Declared Caliphate of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq
Full text linkFSU Law Focus - 06/28/2024
Full text linkAlumni Association President\u27s Column; Ad Hoc Profile Committee; Alumni Association Board of Directors; Calendar of Eventshttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1011/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 01/05/2024
Full text linkFrom the Dean: Nancy Benavides selected for Peter N. Kutulakis Student Services Award; Celebrating Our December 2023 Graduates; Alum Profile: Carlos Lindo (\u2712); Student Profile: 3L Alison Duksteinhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1072/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 01/19/2024
Full text linkFrom the Dean: Perspectives in Bankruptcy Law FSU Business Review symposium; FSU Law Students Serving as Florida Supreme Court Fellows; Alum Profile: Clementine Uwabera (\u2714); Student Profile: 3L Charles Chase Prestonhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1288/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 08/16/2024
Full text linkFrom the Dean: Summer 2024 graduates; Professor Erin Ryan Leads Global Webinar for The Nature Conservancy; Alumni Profile: Patricia Dawson \u2794 Takes on New Role at the Florida Barhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1353/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 12/06/2024
Full text linkFrom the Dean: 2024 Homecoming; Alumni News: Judge Augustus D. Aikens Jr. (\u2774); Alumni News: Salesia Smith-Gordon (\u2792)https://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1356/thumbnail.jp