Heritage 2022 Judicial Clerkship Training Academy

The application deadline for incoming law clerks is January 14, 2022.

The Heritage Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2022 Judicial Clerkship Training Academy.  If you have been hired as a law clerk with a start date in 2022, you should apply.

The Academy will provide you with many of the tools to maximize your clerkship. I will be leading an interactive seminar on textualism and the canons of statutory interpretation. I will also be delivering the Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture. Justice Lee of the Utah Supreme Court and James Heilpern will lead a session on corpus linguistics and originalism. Ross Guberman will teach a class on writing bench memos, opinions, and dissents. Plus, you can hear from two appellate judges and former law clerks about their experiences.

The deadline to apply is January 14, so move quickly.

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

I can’t imagine why anyone who has already been accepted for a clerkship would want to subject themselves to this, or adulterate their resume with it.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Clingerverse cred

[Noscitur a sociis]

Ross Guberman does decent work on legal writing, and I've been impressed by some of Justice Lee's work on corpus linguistics (though a clerk bringing it up on their own probably wouldn't go over well).

On the other hand, if Judge Sociis ever found out that an incoming clerk had applied(!) for the opportunity to be lectured by Prof. Blackman, a young attorney would very suddenly be looking for alternate employment.

[LawTalkingGuy]

Originalism provides definitive answers to fraught historical questions about contested meanings and can also be taught by someone with an IT degree over the course of an hour or so.

[hobie]

Will this be straight up neutral legal training or is any view-based indoctrination involved? Asking for a friend.