Mariah Johnson receives the Volume 112 Breonna Taylor Student Note Prize
July 19, 2024The Georgetown Law Journal is pleased to announce that Mariah Johnson is the winner of the Volume 112 Student Notes Contest, Afrofuturism and the Law, for her Note, “Beyond an 'Average Audience': Critical Race IP as a Justification for De Minimis Music Samples.” Johnson's Note tackles a circuit split on the de minimis exception in music sampling through the Critical Race IP framework to correct the law’s historically disproportionate impact on Black artists. It is now available online.