They used to be one of the last resorts in law students’ career ambitions. But SC judicial clerkships have become fashionable.

Why HC judges decline SC judgeship : Abhinav Chandrachud, Stanford Law doctoral student and son of the current Allahabad HC chief justice, illustrates that an obsession with hierarchy and seniority weren’t always the defining characteristics of India’s judiciary, and perhaps shouldn’t be, in a perci...