New York Occasions: “Every justice sometimes hires 4 legislation clerks per time period. The research, which collected information on the 1,426 former clerks within the 40-year interval ending in 2020, discovered that greater than two-thirds of them attended simply 5 legislation faculties: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia and the College of Chicago…”

“You may suppose that doing effectively at a kind of legislation faculties after which acquiring a prestigious clerkship with a federal appeals court docket choose would verify the required packing containers. Nevertheless it seems that undergraduate levels appear to matter, too. Going to varsity at Harvard, Yale or Princeton — even after controlling for legislation faculty grades — gave candidates a big increase.”

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