Cai on The Crime of a Show Girl: An Analysis of the Common Law Underpinnings Behind the Taylor Swift Song No Body No Crime

Xuantong Cai, Abbey Park High School, has published The Crime of a Show Girl: An analysis of the common law underpinnings behind the Taylor Swift Song No Body No Crime. Here is the abstract.

The song No Body No Crime, as the title suggests, involves the law, and where there is the law, there should be legal analysis. The song, as the title says, articulates the tension in the burden of proof required to convict a person and the doctrine of corpus delicti. Moreover, it also highlights the tension between state-enforced justice and vigilante justice as the narrator then takes the law into her own hands.

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