THE UNEVEN IMPACT OF MISTREATMENT ON LAW CLERKS

“A clerkship lives at the extremes – if it is very good, it is wonderful and a blessing, and if it goes very badly, it can be the worst work experience one has ever endured. The work environment often revolves around one person – the judge,” Professor Jade Craig writes in Jotwell.

Professor Craig reviewed Aliza Shatzman’s article with the Columbia Law Review in Jotwell. He teases out several important nuances, particularly how the unregulated, hierarchical, opaque work environment of a judicial chambers may disproportionately affect non-white, LGBTQ, and first-generation clerks.