Recently the University of Chicago Law School, where I teach, established a Supreme Court and appellate clinic, in partnership with the law firm of Jenner & Block. In the Supreme Court Brief, Tony Mauro asked, quite reasonably: Why? There are already Supreme Court clinics at other law schools. There are Supreme Court specialists at great law firms. And the court hears only about 80 cases a year.

I am the faculty director of the new University of Chicago clinic, so let me try to explain.

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