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School of Law Hosts 10th Annual Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute

Pepperdine University School of Law will host more than 80 judicial clerks from across the country for the 10th Annual Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute on Thursday, Mar. 18, to Saturday, Mar. 20 in Malibu, California. 

Each year, Pepperdine brings law graduates who have been accepted into federal judicial clerkship positions to its campus for the Byrne JCI. During the past decade, the Byrne JCI has trained more than 865 judicial clerks representing more than 130 law schools. Clerks have the opportunity to gain distinctive, comprehensive training by several of the most highly-respected judges in the U.S.

Judges will speak on topics such as the role of the law clerk, judicial clerkship ethics, legal writing for law clerks, and evidence issues from the judge's perspective. Friday’s schedule includes a lecture by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine School of Law, and Ken Starr, dean of Pepperdine’s School of Law on important recent and pending Supreme Court cases.

Later in the day, Pepperdine will host the Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Annual Lecture, entitled, Detention and the Constitution, with Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Commentators include Judge Harris Hartz, Judge Paul Friedman, Professor Bob Pushaw, Professor Akhil Amar, and Dean Starr.

For more information or to register for the event, contact Margaret Barfield at (310) 506-4653.