Mid-week Links

Law fellowships:

Paul Caron More Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors, put together by the Harvard Legal Theory Forum (using, I gather, Caron’s initial list of fellowships as a launching pad)

Brian Leiter on Law and Philosophy Fellowship at University of Chicago Law School, 2010-11

Sherry Colb with more on the bone marrow suit

Ann Bartow takes on the NYU colloquia

Tim Zick on Free Speech and the Furrier, one of several posts on “buffers and bubbles”

Controversy in the US over needle-exchange bill (NY Times) and controversy in the UK over new Supreme Court’s charges to public to access documents (FT)

Via Tyler Cowen, a new weight-loss strategy. 

According to a post today by Ashby Jones, prosecutors alleged yesterday that Northwestern students paid two people to testify in the case of Anthony McKinney, who had been convicted of murder in a 1981 case.  According to WSJ.com, past Northwestern “student research has helped set free 11 wrongly convicted men since 1992, including five on death row.” Northwestern denied the allegations Tuesday, calling the state’s court filing part of a “smear campaign.”

Comments

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I think that students may not pay people to testify. It could be, it is only the reason of the prosecutor, so they do not say unprofessional, because they are convicting the wrong person. Need to investigate more deeply about this. Before there is evidence that really shows the student is paying people to testify, I will not believe.