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Nevada Supreme Court Gets Visit from Italian Judge
by David Gordon

Dr. Carlo Renoldi, a Surveillance Judge (Magistrato di Sorveglianza) with the Cagliari Court in Italy, and participant in the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program, visited the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City on July 23, 2009.

After a tour of the Supreme Court, Dr. Renoldi had a number of questions about judicial education in Nevada including

• How are curricula developed?

• What are the qualifications of the various faculty?

• Is the relevance or motivation of educational topics ever called into question by the public?

• What is the organization of the state's judicial education department?

• What are the qualifications and background of the state's judicial educators?

• Are there differences among state judicial education organizations?

Dr. Renoldi works extensively in criminal cases, and develops training programs for magistrates in the District of Sardinia. In addition to gaining a better understanding of the US criminal justice system, Dr. Renoldi had the objective of gathering additional tools to supplement his judicial training courses.

According to the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, Italian surveillance courts play a role in deciding whether prisoners can be granted leave or be enrolled in a treatment program, be permitted to work outside a detention institution, or be granted a conditional release. (Criminal Justice Systems in Europe and North America, ITALY, by Adelmo Manna and Enrico Infante, Helsinki, Finland, 2000)

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