Legal Commentary

Supreme Court ideology and the career paths of Supreme Court clerks.

Clerks from conservative chambers are now less likely to teach. If they do, they are more likely to join the faculties of conservative and religious law schools. Republican administrations are now much more likely to hire clerks from conservative chambers, and Democratic administrations from liberal ones. Even law firm hiring splits along ideological lines....

The rise of the organized conservative legal movement, including notably the Federalist Society, seems to have changed that, perhaps as a result of the sense among conservatives that law school faculties are overwhelmingly liberal.

?Certain kids coming out of the conservative movement were not feeling comfortable with traditional law schools,? said Harvey Rishikof, another author of the study and a law professor at the National War College.

Full post as published by Althouse on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).