The recent release of The Politics of Restraint: State Judicial Leadership in the 21st Century, authored by Chief Justice (ret.) Jeff Amestoy of the Vermont Supreme Court marks the 11th paper in the Harvard Executive Session series. The author discusses how judicial leaders should understand their role as extending beyond protecting and enhancing the budgetary …
Read MoreThe Language Access Basic Training (LABT) is a downloadable interactive training, which serves as an introduction to language access for all court employees. It is a collaborative project of the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) through the New Mexico Center for Language Access (NMCLA), funded by SJI and supported by the National …
Read MoreSJI support has assisted the National Association for Court Management (NACM) in providing training and educational content at its annual and midyear conferences for court managers, administrators, and judicial officers. Recently, NACM posted online educational sessions from it 2014 midyear conference, held in early February. Video presentations from more than a dozen sessions are available …
Read MoreThe National Center for State Court’s (NCSC)/Center for Elders and the Courts (CEC), in partnership with the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine’s Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect, has developed two training resources for judges and court personnel: The Elder Abuse Curriculum for Judicial Officers is available for download. The …
Read MoreOn January 14, 2014, the first-ever Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States was released. After several months of coordination with the White House, Executive Branch agencies, and other entities, the SJI-sponsored Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative was included as a part of this national …
Read MoreCourts across the country have experienced a significant increase in the number of cases involving self-represented litigants. To assist in meeting the demand for additional resources, the Court Statistics Project (CSP), with support from SJI, recently released a report titled, Developing Standardized Definitions and Counting Rules for Cases with Self-Represented Litigants, (SJI-12-P-084). CSP, a joint …
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