Judges Boycotting Law Schools? Actually, That’s Just Clerkship Hiring.

This “boycott” of Columbia clerks is a public statement about what judges have been doing privately all along.

Aliza Shatzman wrote about the federal judiciary's inequitable and opaque hiring practices. These 13 judges' "boycott" is nothing new: judges have been prioritizing and deprioritizing law schools and other applicant characteristics for as long as they've hired clerks.