This article deals with the institution of clerkship and its recruitment process in the Supreme Court of India through a comparative lens. It analyses the factors which make the clerkships worthwhile in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States to argue that an important job profile like clerkship should have a transparent, accessible and inclusive recruitment process so that there is equality of opportunity. Using the framework of the recruitment process in these countries to cull out broader parameters, a scrutiny of the existing recruitment scheme in India has been done to highlight the flaws in the current scheme of things. Learning from the best comparative practices, the article proposes a new recruitment policy for law clerks at the Supreme Court of India