The Faculty Lounge

Unchained Melody

"Unchained Melody" has mostly been associated with the Righteous Brothers, who released it in 1965, but it was actually written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, in which it was sung by a heartsick convict. Interestingly, only about a minute of the song was included in the film; see clip at the bottom of this post.

Three versions were released in 1955, by three different artists, all of which charted in the top ten. The lyricist Hy Zaret allegedly refused to include the word "unchained," even when asked by the composer Alex North. Seems to have worked out pretty well, as the song has been covered hundreds of times.

Roy Hamilton's 1955 release:

Loyola University Chicago Law Seeks Health Law Faculty

This just in:

Loyola University Chicago School of Law invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Law, with expertise in Health Law beginning around July 1, 2024. This position is open to scholars concentrating in any area of health law or health policy, but preference will be given to candidates focusing on public health law who can assist in fostering interdisciplinary connections with the recently established Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health. This faculty position will be part of Loyola Law’s top ranked Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy. Preference will be given to candidates willing to teach other major doctrinal courses, including but not limited to Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure (Adjudication), Contracts, Criminal Law, Torts, or Professional Responsibility. Ability and interest to teach in the hybrid format in our part-time/weekend JD division will also be considered as a part of the review process.

Applicants must present a JD with excellent academic credentials, evidence of outstanding scholarship or scholarship potential, and a devotion to teaching and mentoring students.  Loyola University Chicago School of Law is dedicated as a faculty to contribute to a deeper understanding of law, legal institutions, and systems of oppression through a commitment to transformation, intersectionality, and anti-subordination in our teaching, research, scholarship, and public service. Both the University and the law school will prioritize candidates who demonstrate a commitment to this mission and to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

 

Taboo Trades Podcast: Banking On The Body With Kara Swanson

In this episode, UVA Law students Mary Beth Bloomer and Anu Goel join me to talk to Kara W. Swanson, a Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Institute For Advanced Studies. Professor Swanson is an accomplished scholar, legal practitioner and scientist whose chief interests are in intellectual property law, gender and sexuality, the history of science, medicine, and technology and legal history. In 2021, she was selected for the Law & Society Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize, which recognizes exceptional scholarship in the field of race, racism and the law.

 

Professor Swanson's research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, among other funding organizations. We’re discussing her 2014 book, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk and Sperm in Modern America, published by Harvard University Press.

 

 

Further Reading

 

Kara Swanson, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk and Sperm in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2014).

 

Kara Swanson, “Rethinking Body Property,” 44 Florida State University Law Review 193 (2016).

 

Almeling, Rene. Sex cells: The medical market for eggs and sperm. Univ of California Press, 2011.

 

Krawiec, Kimberly D. "Sunny samaritans and egomaniacs: price-fixing in the gamete market." Law & Contemp. Probs. 72 (2009): 59.

 

Krawiec, Kimberly D. "Egg-donor price fixing and Kamakahi v. American society for reproductive medicine." AMA Journal of Ethics 16.1 (2014): 57-62.

 

Krawiec, Kimberly D. “Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry” forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand eds.

Michael Barry Stepping Down as Dean of South Texas College of Law Houston

South Texas College of Law Houston has announced that Michael Barry will step down as dean of South Texas College of Law Houston in the summer of 2024.  Barry joined the law school  in 2019.  A search committee will be established to identify the school's next president and dean.