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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2008, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam, July 2008, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2008, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam, July 2008, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2008, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2008, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2008, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2008, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Law Clerk Influence On Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers, Christopher Zorn
Law Clerk Influence On Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers, Christopher Zorn
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Here, we undertake the first effort at assessing the existence and extent of law clerk influence in the U.S. Supreme Court. Drawing upon original survey data on the political ideology of 532 former law clerks, we evaluate the extent to which both the Justice's personal policy preferences and those of his or her law clerks exert an independent influence on the Justice's votes. While our results are preliminary, they nonetheless support the contention that--over and above "selection effects" due to Justices choosing like-minded clerks--clerks' ideological predilections exert an additional, and not insubstantial, influence on the Justices' decisions on the merits. …