Third Annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference for 3Ls who have accepted a clerkship
The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America welcomes applications to its Third Annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference, to be held February 23-25, 2023. The 2023 conference will take place in person on our campus.
The conference is open to individuals who have accepted a 2023-2024 federal clerkship (district court or court of appeals only) or a 2023-2024 state appellate court clerkship. This year, acceptances will be limited to one per law school.
CSL will provide funding towards travel and accommodations.
Over the course of the conference, conferees will receive opinion writing instruction from some of our nation’s most distinguished members of the judiciary. They will also be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by our faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves. Finally, each attendee will be eligible for the CSL Prize in Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing.
The currently scheduled faculty for the event (subject to addition and change) includes the following:
Judge Chad Readler, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Kyle Duncan, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Robert Bacharach, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Kathryn Davis, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Judge Joseph Leeson, U.S. District Court for the E.D. Pennsylvania
Judge Edward Meyers, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Judge Eleni M. Roumel, United States Court of Federal Claims
Judge Lee Rudofsky, U.S. District Court for the E.D. District of Arkansas
Conferees will be limited to thirty-five. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance until the limit of conferees is reached. Applications must be received no later than December 1, 2022.
Details, including application information, can be found at the conference website:
Direct all questions about the conference to Professor A.G. Harmon, Associate Dean of Bench and Bar Programs, at harmon@law.edu.
The conference is part of our school’s First Amendment Initiatives: https://law.edu/academics/First_Amendent_Initiatives_Program.html
