At our Leiter’s Law School Rankings site, Brian Leiter has updated his data on the law schools attended by Supreme Court clerks during the 1996-2006 Terms. In all, thirty law schools had at least one graduate serve as a Supreme Court clerk during this period. Here are the Top 10 feeder schools:
- 1. Harvard (95 clerks)
- 2. Yale (70)
- 3. Chicago (45)
- 4. Columbia (27)
- 5. Stanford (26)
- 6. NYU (16)
- 6. Virginia (16)
- 8. Michigan (14)
- 9. Berkeley (10)
- 10. Texas (9)
Non-elite law schools (defined, for this purpose, as schools outside the U.S. News Top 25) with at least one Supreme Court clerk during this period:
- BYU (3)
- Georgia (2)
- Illinois (2)
- Kansas (2)
- North Carolina (2)
- Arizona (1)
- Boston College (1)
- Missouri-Columbia (1)
- Ohio State (1)
- Rutgers-Newark (1)
