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Courtiers of the Marble Palace - The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (Paperback)
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Courtiers of the Marble Palace - The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (Paperback)
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Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate
Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observers and the
general public have demonstrated a consistent fascination with law
clerks and the influence-real or imagined-that they wield over
judicial decisions. While initially each Supreme Court justice
hired a single clerk, today's justices can hire up to four new law
school graduates. The justices have taken advantage of this
resource, and in modern times law clerks have been given greater
job duties and more responsibility. The increased use of law clerks
has spawned a controversy about the role they play, and
commentators have suggested that liberal or conservative clerks
influence their justices' decision making. The influence debate is
but one piece of a more important and largely unexamined puzzle
regarding the hiring and utilization of Supreme Court law clerks.
Courtiers of the Marble Palace is the first systematic examination
of the "clerkship institution"-the web of formal and informal norms
and rules surrounding the hiring and utilization of law clerks by
the individual justices on the United States Supreme Court. Todd
Peppers provides an unprecedented view into the work lives of and
day-to-day relationships between justices and their clerks;
relationships that in some cases have extended to daily breakfasts,
games of competitive basketball and tennis, and occasional holiday
celebrations. Through personal interviews with fifty-three former
clerks and correspondence with an additional ninety, as well as
personal interviews with a number of non-clerks, including Justice
Antonin Scalia, Peppers has amassed a body of information that
reveals the true inner-workings of the clerkship institution. With
a Foreword by Professor Robert M. O'Neil of the University of
Virginia School of Law, former President of the University of
Virginia and former law clerk for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
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