The word of mouth is that the SPC leadership noted that the US Supreme Court clerkships attracted top law students and wanted to do something similar in China. The program is a small example of “foreign beneficial experience,” about which I wrote about earlier this year. The official ...
work situation; theory & practice (w’ local court experience); investigation & research (local court experience); experience exchange (also w’local court experience); jurisdiction; model case analysis; understanding and application of judicial interpretation; SPC judicial interpretations & normative docu...
Roberts started his legal career with two clerkships in federal courts. First, he clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then he clerked for Justice Rehnquist (whom he would eventually replace) on the Supreme Court. Roberts stayed in Washington, D.C. after thi...
Barrett began her legal career with two clerkships in federal courts. After a year as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, she served as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 1998-1999. Barrett then briefly worked at a private...
In the years after she earned her law degree, Jackson completed three prestigious federal clerkships (typically one-year positions held by top graduates from highly regarded law schools): for Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; for Judge Bruce Selya ...
Following her graduation from law school, Barrett completed two prestigious federal clerkships, positions typically filled for one year by top graduates from highly regarded law schools. Barrett first clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Colu...