BYU Law Professor Aaron Nielson has an excellent National Law Journal column on the collapse of the federal judicial law clerk hiring cartel: Law students everywhere, be warned — the Federal Judges Law Clerk Hiring Plan is dead. If you want a clerkship, don’t think you can wait until the fall of your 3L year […]
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Law Clerk Ideology and the Principal-Agent Problem
Jonathan links below to Adam Liptak’s front-page New York Times article on the ideology of law clerks, and Jason Mazzone’s critique of it. Echoing the point at the end of Mazzone’s critique, I think the ideology of law clerks roughly matches that of the Justices because the Justices are trying to solve the principal-agent problem. […]