NEW YORK — More than three decades have passed since Bob Dylan championed the case of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a former middleweight boxer convicted twice of a 1966 triple murder. And in the end, Carter was freed after 19 years in prison.
Now, academics from across the country will examine the implications of that song and others during “Bob Dylan and the Law,” a conference presented by Fordham University’s law and ethics center and Touro Law School.
“We basically said to people who write and think about the law and who also happen to like Dylan’s music, ‘Find a way to put them together; tell us how Dylan relates to your academic work or your thinking,’ ” said Fordham professor Bruce Green, one of the organizers.
Dylan “wrote some very powerful songs about what happens to folks when the system and when the law fail them,” said Richard Underwood, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.
