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Courtiers of the Marble Palace
Todd C. Peppers
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Description for Courtiers of the Marble Palace
paperback. Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 tables, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
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Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observers and the general public have demonstrated a consistent fascination with law clerks and the influence—real or imagined—that they wield over judicial decisions. While initially each Supreme Court justice hired a single clerk, today's justices can hire up to four...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753821
SKU
V9780804753821
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About Todd C. Peppers
Todd C. Peppers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
Reviews for Courtiers of the Marble Palace
"[This book], which [is] carefully researched and use multiple sources to confirm [its] findings, take us a long way toward a better understanding of the role of law clerks at the Supreme Court. . . [It] is an important addition to the scholarly literature on the Supreme Court."—Mark C. Miller, Law & Social Inquiry "Law clerks have come to play...
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