Specific Judicial Clerkship Questions

• Explain your interest in trying to secure a clerkship.
• What are your particular interests in seeking such a job with me?
• Do you think a one-year term is long enough to make the job worthwhile? Explain. What are the particular aspects of a clerkship that you would value?
• How far do you feel that you have progressed in developing your writing skills?
• How valuable do you consider law review work in preparing for a judicial clerkship?
• What judges have you particularly admired because of style, substance, or ideology?
• How conversant are you with the significant current decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States?
• Under what obligation is a judge to help a law clerk find another job at the end of the term?
• How can we improve the administration of justice?
• What are your practice interests? (Litigation, corporate, public interest, etc.)