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Puppeteers or Agents? What Lazarus's Closed Chambers Adds to Our Understanding of Law Clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court

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Sally J. Kenney
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , Winter 2000 , pp. 185 - 226
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