The current hiring plan . . . will fail, sooner or later . . .
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Any plan with tightly defined deadlines benefits mostly the judges in the I-95 corridor between Boston and Richmond, where students can schedule a large number of interviews in a compacted period of time. A system without deadlines is the best market, because it recognizes the geographical and personal differences among judges, law schools, and students, and affords the greatest opportunity for judges and applicants to evaluate each other.
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The existence of the proposed plan has substantially affected the pool of applicants so far this year . . . I nonetheless have in the neighborhood of one hundred applications already this year . . .