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I Am a Pilgrim

"I Am a Pilgrim" is an American hymn dating to the middle of the nineteenth century. It was first recorded in 1924 by the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet, a prominent African American gospel group (don't miss their clip at the bottom of the post). I first heard it by Doc Watson, and then by the Byrds. I can't explain it, but I just love Doc's four note base run between "not" and "made by hand." Many of the other artists have picked it up, but not all -- which is too bad in my book.

I couldn't find an earlier video of Doc playing this song, but there is an audio clip of Doc and Merle toward the bottom of the post.

The Byrds play the bass run (Chris Hillman and Marty Stuart on guitar)

Col. James H. Kennedy III Named Dean of New England Law/Boston

New England Law/Boston has announced that Colonel James H. Kennedy III will be its next dean.  He is currently Commandant of The Judge Advocate General’s School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.  Kennedy, who holds a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, will take over at the start of spring semester, 2025.

 

New England Law/Boston has announced that Colonel James H. Kennedy III will be its next dean.  He is currently Commandant of The Judge Advocate General’s School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.  Kennedy, who holds a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, will take over at the start of spring semester, 2025.

New England Law/Boston has announced that Colonel James H. Kennedy III will be its next dean.  He is currently Commandant of The Judge Advocate General’s School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.  Kennedy, who holds a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, will take over at the start of spring semester, 2025.

Taboo Trades Podcast: Sexual Agreements with Albertina Antognini and Susan Appleton

I’m thrilled today to welcome new friend, Albertina Antognini and old (by which I mean long-time) friend, Susan Appleton. Albertina Antognini is the James E. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Arizona where she teaches Family Law, Property, Trusts & Estates, and a seminar surveying different legal regimes that shape the contemporary American family. Professor Antognini’s work examines the ways that legal rules actively regulate, and in the process define, families. Her research is centrally preoccupied with considering how categories that may appear “natural” are in fact products of law, with the aim of opening them up to a more rigorous critique.

 

Susan Appleton is the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. She is a nationally known expert in family law and feminist legal theory. Her research, scholarship, and teaching address reproductive justice, parentage, gender, sexualities, and public assistance for families. They join us today to discuss their recent article, Sexual Agreements, published in the Wash. U. Law Review. UVA Law 3L, Laura Habib, co-hosts this episode.

 

 

 

Further Reading

• Antognini and Appleton, Sexual Agreements, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1807 (2022)

• Antognini bio https://law.arizona.edu/person/albertina-antognini

• Antognini, Nonmarital Contracts, 73 Stan. L. Rev. 67 (2021)
• Antognini, Nonmarital Coverture, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 2139 (2019)
• Appleton bio https://law.wustl.edu/faculty-staff-directory/profile/susan-frelich-appleton/
• Appleton, Sex Positive Feminism’s Values in Search of the Law of Pleasure, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas, & Verna Williams eds., 2023).
• Appleton, Families Under Construction: Parentage, Adoption, and Assisted Reproduction (with D. Kelly Weisberg) (2021).
• Krawiec bio https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653
• Krawiec, Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry, in Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Routledge, 278–289 (1 ed. 2023).

• Krawiec, Markets, repugnance, and externalities, Journal of Institutional Economics 1–12 (2022).

Krawiec, No Money Allowed, 2022 University of Chicago Legal Forum 221–240 (2022).

CFP: Touro Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy's First Annual Symposium

This just in:

The first annual symposium of Touro Law Center's Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy will focus on the topic of Reproductive Health Policy. This symposium will be held on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at the Touro University Cross River Campus, located at 3 Times Square in New York City. The symposium will address policy issues involved in the practice of reproductive care in the United States. Broken into three panels, with three speakers on each panel, the topics covered will be as follows:

• In Vitro Fertilization– seeking presentations that focus on the policies that guide the practice of IVF.
• Embryonic and prenatal genetic testing– seeking presentations that analyze the policy issues involved in offering genetic testing.
• Abortion access (including pharmacologic abortion) – seeking speakers who will address specific state laws and policies in the post-Dobbs era that affect who and how women can access the full range of reproductive care (speakers can discuss both enacted laws and proposed legislation).

We seek both panel speakers and poster presentations. This symposium is partnered with the Cambridge Quarterly Journal of Ethics. All speakers will be offered the opportunity to publish a paper on their presentation topic in a special edition of the journal.   Please submit your abstract of 500 words or less by Monday, December 2nd at midnight.