During remarks at the 57^th Plenary Session of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Senior Fellow Jay Plager, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, discussed his recently published article, “Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Justices Make, What Influence Their Choices, and Their Consequences,” 161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (2012), which he co-authored with Stephen Burbank of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  A link to the article is included here for your convenience:

Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Justices Make, What Influence Their Choices, and Their Consequences.