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Muller: Federal Judges Have Already Begun To Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks

Update:

Following up on Friday's post, Federal Appeals Judge Suggests Yale Law Protesters 'Should Be Disqualified for Potential Clerkships':  Derek Muller (Iowa), Federal Judges Have Already Begun to Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks:

The truth is, Yale Law has already seen falling clerkship placement numbers in recent years. Incidents like this may harden some judges’ opposition. …

I’ll start with percentage of graduates placed into a full-time, long-term federal clerkship. …

Muller

A few items stand out. Yale would typically place between 25% and 35% of its class into federal clerkships. Its number is low in 2020, but not the lowest in this time period. A couple of times, Stanford has placed a higher percentage of clerks than Yale. But noteworthy is Chicago’s climb, from 10% of the class in 2013 to a whopping 27.6% in 2020, for the first time in recent memory besting Yale.

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