Career Research

BLSConnect > Career > Programs and Videos provides a recording of: Judicial Internship/Externship Information Session​ - 1.24.2025

BLSConnect > Career > Employment Resources > tab: Post-Graduate Judicial Clerkships provides Applying for FEDERAL Post-Graduate Judicial Clerkships, Applying for STATE Post-Graduate Judicial Clerkships, recordings of chats with judges, a Clerkship Manual, and many more resources.  BLS Career Counselors and the BLS Faculty Clerkship Committee also are excellent resources.  Through the Brooklyn Law School Symplicity CSM page, BLS students can access The Guide to State Judicial Clerkship Procedures (Vermont Law School). 

American Bar Association provides publicly accessible videos of these programs: Behind the Robes: The Real-World Value of Judicial Clerkships (June 25, 2025) + Getting the Most From Your Judicial Internship/Externship (July 18, 2024).  ABA also currently provides for free this article: Alejandro Cruz & Christina Marie Seda, Breaking Down Barriers to Judicial Clerkships: 5 Questions Answered (Jan 14, 2025). 

These ABA websites often highlight programs and materials on judicial internships and clerkships: ABA's Law Student Division, ABA's Young Lawyers Division + ABA's Judicial Division (which describes its website as a "home" to students who have an interest in courts and our system of justice).  BLS Library provides The Judges' Journal (ABA Judicial Division's quarterly publication that includes articles on innovations in our system of justice) in HeinOnline database. 

Related content: Prof. Debra Strauss provides much of the material at this website:

JudicialClerkships.com (focus: U.S.) - Includes:

• Tips
• Judicial Clerkships Links and Resources

Tip: Federal Judicial Center provides a searchable collection of guides and manuals on legal topics for judges and court staff at: Manuals, Monographs & Guides.  BLS students: Check each publication's date.  Example:

• William H. Brown, Consumer Bankruptcy Law: Chapters 7 & 13 (2nd ed. June 12, 2025)
• James Baker, Laurie Hobart & Matthew Mittelsteadt, An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal Judges (Feb. 13, 2023) 

Keyword searches in BLS Library's SARA catalog will yield many books by, and about, judges, including:

U.S.:

Websites of U.S. courts are a useful starting point to find information about courts and judges, news, court rules and case documents.  For example, the U.S. Supreme Court's website provides information about the Justices, press releases, oral argument transcripts/audio, opinions and many case documents submitted after Nov. 13, 2017.  This guide box provides 1) links and tools to find U.S. courts' websites and 2) publicly accessible directories of judges.

OSCAR (Online System for Clerkship Application and Review) - OSCAR's website describes OSCAR as "a web-based system for federal law clerk and appellate staff attorney recruitment" maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary.  OSCAR includes:

• Weekly updates on newly available clerkship/staff attorney positions
• Information about the duties/qualifications and salaries/benefits of law clerks and staff attorneys at Explore Your Legal Career with the United States Courts
• Applicant Prep Kit

SCOTUSblog (founded by lawyers Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe) states it provides "[i]ndependent news & analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court."

International:

African Court on Humans and Peoples' Rights, Internship

Court of Justice of the European Union, Traineeships

European Court of Human Rights, Employment and Traineeships

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Program of Internships and Professional Visits

International Court of Justice, Judicial Fellowship Programme

International Criminal Court, Internship Opportunities

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Internship Programme

Law.com - Aggregates legal news and analysis from ALM publications such as The American Lawyer, Connecticut Law Tribune, Corporate Counsel, Delaware Business Court Insider, Delaware Law Weekly, Litigation Daily, Legal Tech News, National Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal, New York Law Journal, The Recorder (CA), Supreme Court Brief and Texas Lawyer. 

Tip: Click: Menu > Topics > All Law Topics to review content by legal subject.  Includes legal topics:

• Judges
• United States Supreme Court

Law360 Pulse: Courts - Discusses recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in The Supreme Court's Week.  Also provides legal news and analysis.  

United States Law Week - Offers news and analysis and includes Supreme Court Today.

Judicial Clerkship Resources page - Includes:

• New York Judge Reviews and Court Directory (15th ed., c2017)
• Judge Profiles
• Judicial Analytics for U.S. District Court judges 

Provides Search Dockets, a search template to find case documents filed with courts. 

• Tip: Search by judge.

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Litigation Analytics - Supports analysis of the litigation track record of judges and courts.

• For U.S. District Courts, includes "quick tool": Compare Courts & Judges.

Lexis+ > Legal Research Content: Cases

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Westlaw Bulletin - U.S. Supreme Court

Profiler - Provides a search template to obtain profiles of judges.

Litigation Analytics - Includes judges and courts.

• Tip: Enter a judge's name to obtain data on ruling tendencies, case docket analytics, outcome analytics by party, motion analytics, precedent analytics, expert challenge analytics and appeal analytics. 
• Note: Coverage varies by court.

Westlaw Precision > Content Types: Cases

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