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1995

Law and Contemporary Problems

Judicial ethics

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Instructing Judges: Ethical Experience And Educational Technique, Cynthia Gray, Frances Kahn Zemans Jul 1995

Instructing Judges: Ethical Experience And Educational Technique, Cynthia Gray, Frances Kahn Zemans

Law and Contemporary Problems

Most professional responsibility textbooks do not discuss judicial conduct, and not surprisingly, many judges find themselves unprepared for the ethical dilemmas they face when they make the transition from partisan advocate to neutral arbiter. Gray and Zemans discuss the nine-topic curriculum for judicial educators to use to teach judicial ethics to judges at programs for new judges, continuing judicial education courses and judicial conferences.


Judicial Ethics Simulation Based Training, Stephen M. Simon, Maury S. Landsman Jul 1995

Judicial Ethics Simulation Based Training, Stephen M. Simon, Maury S. Landsman

Law and Contemporary Problems

The Judicial Ethics Education Project trains trial judges to be aware of ethical issues that arise in the trial process. The goal of the project, which employs case simulations that raise ethical and management issues requiring immediate attention during the course of a trial, is to provide sitting judges with a basis on which to make similar decisions during trials.


Ethical Training In The Profession: The Special Challenge Of The Judiciary, V. Robert Payant Jul 1995

Ethical Training In The Profession: The Special Challenge Of The Judiciary, V. Robert Payant

Law and Contemporary Problems

Although ethics for lawyers and ethics for judges have the same ultimate goal, the rules governing the two professions, the mechanisms for enforcement of these rules and the methods of training vary substantially. The National Judicial College is an institution with the specific mission to train judges.