The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, Alvin E. Roth

NBER Working Paper No. 13213
Issued in July 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors are grateful to Anne Alstott, Akhil Amar, Ian Ayres, Heather Gerken, James Hines, Alvin Klevorick, Martin Kurzweil, Judith Resnik, Benjamin Roin, Benjamin Sachs, Steven Shavell, Benjamin Shultz, Kirsten Solberg, Betsey Stevenson, Cass Sunstein, David Tannenbaum, Stanton Wheeler, Stephen Williams, Ernest Young, seminar participants at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School, and participants at the National Bureau of Economic Research Law and Economics Program Meeting and the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting for very helpful comments and discussions. Jon Goldin, Andrew Kim, Dina Mishra, and Michael Simkovic provided outstanding research assistance. Finally, special thanks to Ellen Keng for her invaluable assistance with tabulating our survey data. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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