Amicus Groups, Attorney Connections to Justices, and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court

• In Event: Understanding Supreme Court Behavior

Brief Overview

We examine how attorneys' connections to Supreme Court justices via their own or law school classmates' clerkship experience relate to interest groups' success as amici curiae in persuading the Court to grant certiorari on cases of their concern.

Authors

• Huchen Liu, Princeton University

• John Kastellec, Princeton University