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Education For Judicial Aspirants, Keith Fisher

Keith R. Fisher

Introductory judicial education (IJE) is an avenue for improving both appointive and elective systems of judicial selection. The impetus for considering this topic can be traced back to a lingering unease with judicial selection and the ongoing (though now somewhat stagnant) debate over merit selection. Moreover, changes in the nature of law practice and the judicial role over the past several decades have rendered the gap between the two activities increasingly large. IJE is an effort to maximize the chances that judicial selection, by any process, will result in a judiciary composed of competent individuals who are not only philosophically …