This story in the Times of London reports that Lord Falconer (pictured) the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain has been accused by an independent watchdog of being influenced in appointing judges by whether they had been to Oxbridge.
It isn't really so different here. We have our own version of Oxbridge, I call it "Harleford." Of the current nine justices on the Supreme Court of the United States, five received their law degrees from Harvard, one from Yale and one from Stanford. Two of them, Souter and Bryer, received additional degrees from Oxford. Only John Paul Stevens was not educated at one of the big three.
As you may have gathered, I didn't attend any of them.
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