Abstract
This Essay highlights the evolving institutional changes in the federal judiciary—a protracted confirmation process, higher caseload demands, and declining real salaries—in concurrence with evidence suggesting greater reliance by judges on their law clerks when writing opinions. These dynamic forces arguably undermine the integrity of the judicial process and counsel for legislative action to address judicial working conditions or for changes by judges in the hiring of law clerks.
Repository Citation
Albert Yoon,
Law Clerks and the Institutional Design of the Federal Judiciary,
98 Marq. L. Rev. 131
(2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol98/iss1/9
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