Have Highly Placed Judges Been Boycotting “Lower Tier” Law Schools

To a significant extent, yes. Here is an excerpt from Josh Blackman’s article at Reason: “Judicial Boycotts of Non-Elite Schools” ^[1]:

Could one say that the Justices have imposed a boycott of every other law school outside the T14? I’m sure they would resist the characterization. For sure, they have not announced any public boycott. But the practical consequences of their hiring pattern is that students who graduated from non-elite law schools are persona non-grata.

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