Monday, May 6, 2019

Why Are Law Clerks So White?

Today's Law360 has Why Are Law Clerks So White?, noting:

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Justice Liu and researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, the American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University are setting out to conduct the first major study into judicial clerkship diversity. As the U.S. Supreme Court made history this term with a majority of female clerks, details about the gender and race of clerks in lower courts has remained unstudied, they say. Results of the new study are likely to be years away.