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Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court.(Book review)

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Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court

Artemus Ward David L. Weiden NYU Press www.nyupress.org 352 pp., $39

Although Sorcerers' Apprentices does not mention the famous orchestral piece animated in the movie Fantasia, it is shaped by its provocative imagery. The book does refer to the 1797 poem that inspired the composition, cautioning that if Supreme Court law clerks continue to overstep their bounds, "like the apprentice in von Goethe's poem, [they] may find themselves unable to quell increasing threats to the Court's legitimacy."

The allusion is dramatic--but hardly apt. It illustrates the tendency toward sensationalism in a book that claims a scholarly pedigree as "the first comprehensive examination of law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court."

The book does cover a comprehensive time period, from Justice Horace Gray's first clerk in 1882 through the 2002 Rehnquist Court. Its scope also is ambitious: Sorcerers' Apprentices discusses clerks' selection, their role in the Court's review of petitions for certiorari, their influence in decision-making, and their writing of...

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