A third-year Law student and three Harvard Law School graduates will serve next year as clerks to United States Supreme Court Justices.
Richard B. Stewart, a third-year student, will clerk for Associate Justice Potter Stewart (no relation), Margaret J. Corcoran '62 will work for Associate Justice Hugo L. Black, James Loken will serve as an aid to Associate Justice Byron R. White, and Burt Rein will clerk for Associate Justice John M. Harlan.
Matthew Nimetz, who graduated from the Law School last year, is now a clerk for Harlan and will spend next year in that position also.
Clerks read briefs and petitions, perform research and often assist in the preparation of the Justices' opinions. Each Associate Justice can appoint two clerks annually and the Chief Justice appoints three.
Some 17 Harvard Law School professors have served as clerks for Supreme Court Justices. They include Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, and John H. Mansfield '52, professor of Law.
David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of School Sciences was also a clerk.
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