by David Gordon, Academic Coordinator, Judicial Education, Nevada Supreme Court/AOC As a part of the Judicial Administration, Training, and Decision Making Project for Kenya, in cooperation with the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, a delegation from the Read more
Dr. Anthony Simones has been named the Manager of Judicial Education and Programming for the Court Business Services Division of the Office of State Courts Administrator in Missouri. Simones obtained a J.D. and Ph.D from the University of Tennessee. He Read more
The purpose of any program of continuing judicial education is to provide a process…to improve judicial performance, and thereby, the quality of justice,” according to a 1993 University of New South Wales law journal article on the need for judicial education.
The relatively new and increasingly used word unretirement conjures up many different thoughts and emotions.
The Judicial Education office of the Nevada Supreme Court recently welcomed Gary Turner as the new judicial education manager.
More organizations are providing trainings and conducting meetings on-line, because it is cost-effective and efficient for participants and faculty.
The purpose of the Mental Competency – Best Practices Model is to present a body of practices deemed to be most effective and efficient for handling mental incompetency issues in the criminal justice and mental health systems.
The executive board of the National Association of State Judicial Educators is pleased to announce the appointment of Cynthia D. Davis as director of the southeast region.
As the new president of NASJE, I would like to thank immediate past-president Judith Anderson for her leadership and vision. Judith worked hard to keep NASJE moving forward during a financially difficult year for the country.
I am truly honored to have served as NASJE’s President this past year and have thoroughly enjoyed working with the NASJE Board—one of the most dynamic, energetic, and forward thinking Boards I have ever experienced.
We have all heard of the law of unintended consequences…an adage or idiom that warns that an intervention in a complex system invariably creates unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes. It is a basic principle of economics, and governments struggle with unintended consequences to the policies that are set in place on a daily basis.
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges announces the appointment of Mari Kay Bickett as its Executive Director.
The NASJE Western Region hosted its conference in San Francisco, March 3-4, 2011. There were workshops on engaging learners, strategies to improve PowerPoint, evidence-based sentencing, fairness and bias issues. Participants had an opportunity to visit California’s television studio and learn how its judicial education division produces and delivers education programs through satellite television.
