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2018 Cardozo Life (Fall), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
2018 Cardozo Life (Fall), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Cardozo Life Magazine
Table of Contents:
Top News & Events, page 3
Clinics News, page 11
Faculty Briefs, page 13
Faculty With Impact, page 16
A Courtside Seat: Six Former Clerks Share Their Supreme Court Takeaways, page 30
Bridging the Gap, page 35
Notable Case Brings Three Clinics to One Man's Defense, page 36
Student News, page 38
Cardozo Welcomes Two New Deans, page 41
Movers & Shakers, page 42
Alumni News & Class Notes, page 44
End Note, page 53
Clerking For God’S Grandfather: Chauncey Belknap’S Year With Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Todd C. Peppers, Ira Brad Matetsky, Elizabeth R. Williams, Jessica Winn
Clerking For God’S Grandfather: Chauncey Belknap’S Year With Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Todd C. Peppers, Ira Brad Matetsky, Elizabeth R. Williams, Jessica Winn
Scholarly Articles
Most of what we know about law clerks comes from the clerks themselves, usually in the form of law review articles memorializing their Justices and their clerkships or in interviews with reporters and legal scholars. In a few instances, however, law clerks have contemporaneously memorialized their experiences in diaries. These materials provide a rare window into the insular world of the Court. While the recollections contained in the diaries are often infused with youthful hero worship for their employer—in contradistinction to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s claim that no man is a hero to his valet— they offer a real-time, …