1. Daniel M. Katz, J.D., M.P.P. PhD Pre-Candidate University of Michigan Department of Political Science Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Derek K. Stafford PhD Pre-Candidate University of Michigan Department of Political Science Center for Complex Systems Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary

2. Data Collection  Nearly 20,000 Law Clerk Events  1995-2004 All Article III Judges  95.8% of Total Law Clerks  Collection is still underway  More than 800 Edges Distributed Across Nearly 600 Jurists  Used Limiting Characteristics to Find ‘Movers’  Conservative in Willingness to Validate a ‘Mover’

3. From Data to a Network  Nodes  Yellow – Supreme Court Justices  Green – Circuit Court Judges  Blue – District Court Judges  Edges  Measure of Shared Clerks Between Jurists

4. Kamada-Kawai Energized Judicial Social Network

5. Kamada-Kawai Energized Judicial Social Network (CloseUp)

6. Fruchterman-Reingold Energized Judicial Social Network

7. Fruchterman-Reingold Energized Judicial Social Network (CloseUp)

9. The Extreme Skewing of The Judicial Social Network

10. Preferential Attachment as a Possible Generating Mechanism? Computational Simulation of a Preferential Attachment Process http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/PreferentialAttachment