Professional Article: Hiding in Plain Sight: Bias in Legal Contracts A Call to Reform Contract Language Using the Term “Master”

As legal professionals, lawyers are tasked with upholding justice and promoting fairness within the profession. Notwithstanding, certain language used in legal documents perpetuates historical biases and inequalities. In the realms of business contracts generally, and music contracts specifically, there exists a linguistic artifact that carries with it the weight of historical oppression and bias: the […]