Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006)

Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006)

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Courtiers of the Marble Palace is the first systematic examination of the "clerkship institution"—the web of formal and informal norms and rules surrounding the hiring and utilization of law clerks by the individual justices on the United States Supreme Court. Todd Peppers provides an unprecedented view into the work lives of and day-to-day relationships between justices and their clerks; relationships that in some cases have extended to daily breakfasts, games of competitive basketball and tennis, and occasional holiday celebrations. Through personal interviews with fifty-three former clerks and correspondence with an additional ninety, as well as personal interviews with a number of non-clerks, including Justice Antonin Scalia, Peppers has amassed a body of information that reveals the true inner-workings of the clerkship institution.

With a Foreword by Professor Robert M. O'Neil of the University of Virginia School of Law, former President of the University of Virginia and former law clerk for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

ISBN

9780804753814

Publication Date

2006

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Disciplines

Courts | Judges | Law | Legal Biography | Legal History | Supreme Court of the United States

Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006)

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