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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America welcomes applications to its Fourth Annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion
Writing Conference, to be held February 22-24, 2024</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">. The conference is open to individuals who have accepted
a 2024-2025 federal clerkship (district court or court of appeals) or a 2024-2025 state appellate court clerkship. The conference will take place in person on our campus.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>CSL will provide funding towards travel and accommodations.</b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Over the course of the conference, conferees will receive opinion writing instruction from some of our nation's most
distinguished members of the judiciary. They will also be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by our faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves. Finally, each attendee
will be eligible for the CSL Prize in Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> The currently scheduled faculty for the event (subject to addition and change) includes the following:</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b><u> </u></b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Judge Robert E. Bacharach, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals<br>
Judge Kathryn Davis, United States Court of Federal Claims<br>
Judge Kyle Duncan, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals<br>
Judge Joseph Leeson, United States District Court for E.D. Pennsylvania<br>
Judge Paul Matey, Third Circuit Court of Appeals<br>
Judge Edward Meyers, United States Court of Federal Claims<br>
Judge Chad Readler, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals<br>
Judge Eleni M. Roumel, United States Court of Federal Claims<br>
Judge Lee Rudofsky, United States District Court for the E.D. Arkansas<br>
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<br>
Judge Victor J. Wolski, United States Court of Federal Claims </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Conferees will be limited to no more than thirty-five. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance until the limit
of conferees is reached. Applications must be received no later than January 1, 2024. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED ON A ROLLING BASIS; AFTER CAPACITY IS REACHED, ALL OTHER APPLICATIONS WILL GO TO A WAITLIST.</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Details, including application information, can be found at the conference website:</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);"><u><a href="http://law.edu/JCOW" id="OWAf774a3f4-344c-1cdf-b44b-593f9e261715" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="http://law.edu/JCOW" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="47" style="margin: 0px;">law.edu/JCOW</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Direct all questions about the conference to Professor A.G. Harmon, Associate Dean of Bench and Bar Programs, at
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