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The conservative law school growing its influence with the Supreme Court

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The University of Notre Dame Law School is having success placing both students and professors in prestigious Supreme Court clerkships.

The school counts among its former faculty Justice Amy Coney Barrett , who helped form the 6 -3 conservative majority on the court.

Justices, mostly conservatives but at times liberals too, have become frequent visitors and guest lecturers at the school.

Four Notre Dame graduates have clerked at the Supreme Court in the last five years , all for conservative justices.

Each of the nine Supreme Court justices hires four clerks a year .

The clerkship is considered the most prestigious post a recent law school graduate can obtain.

Some former professors and students say there is a clear tilt to the right at the law school.

The traditional elite law schools dominate Supreme Court clerkships.

In the last five years , more graduates of Notre Dame Law School have been clerking at the high court.

Another conservative-aligned law school that is making inroads is George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia .

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