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AI Remember Doing the Time Warp

Madness takes its toll.

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I asked Claude, "Under the federal law clerk hiring plan, when can a recommender e-mail or call a judge to recommend a student?" Claude responded, in part,

Judges will not accept applications or recommendations before 12:00 pm EDT on Monday, June 8, 2026. (That's today — recommendations became permissible at noon Eastern today.) uscourts

For those reading this post later, note that I wrote this and asked Claude this on Sunday, June 7, 2026 (shortly after 12 noon Eastern). AI is indeed the future.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.