Every post published in June 2018, most recent first.
Stephanos Bibas sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. He clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the October 1997 term. Twenty-six years ago, I was an eager summer intern in the middle of law school, working with a young lawyer named Greg Kennedy.
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Yesterday’s retirement announcement by Justice Anthony Kennedy dominates coverage of and commentary on the court. At NPR, Nina Totenberg examines the impact of the retirement, calling it “the end of the world as we know it, at least at the Supreme Court.” For The New York Times, Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman report on the White House’s efforts to pave the way for this Supreme Court vacancy.
Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement. What now? We continue our series on Supreme Court vacancies, with Dan Epps and Leah Litman — both former Kennedy clerks — setting the stage. “Good Behaviour” is First Mondays’ series of episodes covering Supreme Court vacancies and nominations.
Richard M. Re is an assistant professor at UCLA School of Law. He served as a law clerk to Justice Kennedy during the October 2010 term. When I began law teaching, I asked Justice Anthony Kennedy for advice.
Leah Litman is an assistant professor of law at UC Irvine School of Law. She clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the October 2011 term. Other justices are celebrated for hiring counter-clerks — clerks who are hired because they often disagree with a justice, not in spite of it.
Of all the names on President Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees, Don Willett’s may be the best known outside rarefied legal circles.
Daniel Hemel is an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Theodore M. Shaw is the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill.
Michael C. Dorf is Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Kennedy during the October 1991 term.