Visiting law professor Todd peppers is a co-organizer and participant at the upcoming symposium Judicial Assistants or Junior Judges: the Hiring, Utilization and Influence of Law Clerks.
The symposium will be held on April 11-12, 2014 at the Marquette University Law School. During the symposium, judicial biographers, journalists, legal scholars, social scientists, and judges will discuss a variety of issues related to law clerks – from how law clerks are selected (including issues of racial and academic diversity) and relied upon by biographers and journalists to the various job duties given to law clerks and the related question of law clerk influence. The Marquette Law Review will subsequently publish a symposium edition, containing essays written by many of the participants.
