Month: June 2017

Here are the originals on which the parodies in the previous post were based. The Carter Family's Engine 143:   Bradley Kincaid's The Ship That Never Returned  

Dave Van Ronk's little known Georgie on the IRT:   And more famously, The Man Who Never Returned: I could only find the Kingston Trio version, although the song was…

With Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Doc Watson & Earl Scruggs, the Osborne Brothers, Roy Acuff, and Cliffie Stone: Waiting for a Train   Pan American   Streamlined Cannonball   Fireball…

China Digital Times is a bilingual website that regularly covers news from China that has been censored or blocked by the government, including information about the prosecution of democracy activists.…

DEADLINE:  FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of rewritten judicial opinions and commentaries for an edited collection tentatively titled, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Family Law Opinions.  This edited volume…

Katharine Van Tassel has joined the Concordia University School of Law in Boise, Idaho as Associate Dean of Academics and Professor of Law. More details are available at Concordia University School…

I see from a comment on one of the other posts that Professor Federico Cheever, a beloved environmental law professor at the University of Denver, passed away recently on a…

Before I depart the southern Atlantic for a gulf coast state, I thought I'd clear out a couple of trivia questions.  This is a building I've been waiting a long…

My friend Richard Gershon has passed along the news of the passing of his long-time and beloved colleague George Cochran at Ole Miss.  Cribbing now a little from Professor Cochran's…

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law seeks an established teacher and scholar to serve as the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The successful…