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1995

University of Richmond

Hiring

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Stuck Inside The Heartland With Those Coastline Clerking Blues Again, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1995

Stuck Inside The Heartland With Those Coastline Clerking Blues Again, Carl W. Tobias

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Circuit Judge Edward Becker, and Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi deserve kudos for helping to craft, implement, and publicize an efficacious solution to the increasing difficulties engendered by the selection of federal judicial law clerks. The jurists' essay, The Federal Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Problem and the Modest March 1 Solution, which recently appeared in the Yale Law Journal, is a must read for all those who participate in the process of law clerk hiring.

The concerted efforts of Justice Breyer and Judges Becker and Calabresi have apparently succeeded in bringing considerable order out of chaos, …