Pt. I. The origins of the clerkship institution
Birth of an institution : Horace Gray and the lost law clerks / Todd C. Peppers
The judge as mentor : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his law clerks / I. Scott Messinger
Isaiah and his young disciples : Justice Louis Brandeis and his law clerks / Todd C. Peppers
Benjamin Cardozo and his law clerks / Andrew L. Kaufman
The family of Stone law clerks / Bennett Boskey
Pt. II. The premodern clerkship institution
A passion for justice : living with and clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Charles A. Reich
Clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Daniel J. Meador
Half clerk, half son : Justice Felix Frankfurter and his law clerks / Todd C. Peppers and Beth See Driver
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. : breaking the color barrier at the United States Supreme Court / Todd C. Peppers
Fifty-two weeks of boot camp / Bruce Allen Murphy
Lucile Lomen : the first female United States Supreme Court law clerk / Jennie Berry Chandra
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. and his law clerks / John M. Ferren
Strained relations : Justice Charles Evans Whittaker and his law clerks / Craig Alan Smith
Pt. III. The modern clerkship insitution
Clerking for Chief Justice Earl Warren / Jesse H. Choper
Charting civil liberties and protecting free expression : learning from and working with Justice William J. Brennan / Robert M. O'Neil
Justice Arthur Goldberg and his law clerks / Alan M. Dershowitz
Shirt-tales : clerking for Byron White / Kevin J. Worthen
Thurgood Marshall and his clerks / Deborah L. Rhode
Good old number three : Harry Blackmun and his clerks / Randall P. Bezanson
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. : a personal view by a former clerk / J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Making work for idle hands : William H. Rehnquist and his law clerks / Artemus Ward
The modern clerkship : Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her law clerks / Todd C. Peppers.