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In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of law school. Using the same general methodology as we employed in a study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This paper analyzes our findings within the prevailing economic framework for studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of the judges responding to our surveys has concluded that nonadherence to the specified start dates is very substantial -- a conclusion we are able to corroborate with specific quantitative data from both judge and student surveys. The consistent experience of a wide range of other markets suggests that such nonadherence in the law clerk market will lead to either a reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present pattern of mixed adherence and nonadherence, thereby avoiding the complete abandonment of the current system.

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Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Cassidy, John: How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities. - New York/N.Y. : Farrat, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now -- WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY -- Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism -- Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" -- The Moral Impulse -- What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? -- PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT -- Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? -- Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith -- Community in the Pragmatic Tradition -- Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture -- Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage -- The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks -- The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science -- Pragmatism and Its Limits -- PRAGMATISM AND LAW -- Pragmatic Adjudication -- Freestanding Legal Pragmatism -- What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? -- Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban -- It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal -- Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech -- PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART -- Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? -- Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier -- The Novelist of Everyday Life, -- When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing -- Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism -- Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index