Lazarus, Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court, Times Books, 1998. For critical commentary on the book, see Jurist Books-on-law, May 1998 <http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/revmay98.htm>.
2.
Mauro, ‘Corps of Clerks Lacking in Diversity’, USA Today, 5 June 1998. Four months after the release of this study, a large rally was held outside the Supreme Court in protest: Mauro, ‘Protest Targets Lack of Minority Clerks’, USA Today, 1 October 1998. See also Mauro, ‘Congress Grills Justice on Clerks’, USA Today, 11 March 1999; Mauro, ‘High Court Hires more Minorities’, USA Today, 9 September 1999.
3.
By this time, US Supreme Court justices had also begun employing clerks: Baier, ‘The Law Clerks: Profile of an Institution’, (1973) 26Vanderbilt Law Review1125 at 1132. In the United Kingdom, however, associates were not employed until much later.
4.
Lazarus, ref 1, above, pp.261–75. See also Woodward and Armstrong, The Bretheren, Simon & Schuster, 1979, pp.34–5.
5.
123 Ed 2d 229 at 243 (1993). Cited in Jamieson, ‘Of Judges, Judgments and Judicial Assistants’ (1998) 17Civil Justice Quarterly395 at 399–400.
6.
Lazarus, ref 1, above, p.31.
7.
Lazarus, ref 1, above, p.271. See also Biskupic, ‘Making “The List”: A Final Sifting of Appeals’, Washington Post, 6 September 1999; Thomas, Judicial Ethics in Australia, Law Book Company, 1988.
8.
Biskupic, ref 7, above.
9.
Lazarus, ref 1, above, pp.271–2.
10.
In 1998–99, 615 applications for special leave were filed with the High Court.
11.
See, for example, Kirby, ‘What Is it Really Like to Be a Justice of the High Court of Australia? A Conversation of Law Students with Justice Kirby’, University of Sydney, 23 May 1997; Callinan, ‘Courts: First and Final’, Speakers' Forum, University of New South Wales, 17 August 1999.
12.
Kirby, ref 11, above.
13.
Hammond, ‘Recent Research on Legislative Staffs’, (1996) Legislative Studies Quarterly543 at 548.
14.
L'Estrange, ‘The Roles of Opposition Staff’ in Disney and Nethercote, The House on Capital Hill: Parliament, Politics and Power in the National CapitalFederation Press, 1996, p.184.
15.
Waterford, ‘The Minister and the Minister's Private Office’, (1997) 83Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration56 at 58.
16.
Australian Law Reform Commission, ‘Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System’, ALRC89, 2000, p.102.
17.
Hayne, ‘Australian Law in the Twentieth Century’, Keynote Address at the Judicial Conference of Australia, Melbourne, 13 November 1999.
18.
Callinan, ref 11, above.
19.
I am grateful to the many former associates who assisted me in compiling and checking this data, but take full responsibility for the conclusions that I have drawn from it.
20.
The eventual sample was 97 associates.
21.
Gummow and CallinanJJ.
22.
Of the 97 associates sampled overall, I was only able to determine which type of school 71 of the associates attended.
