Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs

Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately ...

Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs. Approved September 19, 2006; effective January 1, 2007. 1. A ...

Privately Funded Seminars Disclosure System | United States Courts

The Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs requires educational program providers and judges to disclose ...

Guess Who's Paying for Judicial Seminars?

The disclosure requirements promulgated by the 2007 Judicial Conference policy on judges' attendance at privately funded educational programs are one protection ...

May Judges Attend Privately Funded Educational Programs ...

For more than two decades, privately funded programs for judicial education, particularly in the area of law-and-economics, were the subject of ...

Undue influence? Special interest groups sponsor judicial education

Various media raised questions about judicial education that was funded, primarily by industries with particular special interests, though they appeared to be ...

New limits on judges at private seminars - SCOTUSblog

... privately-funded educational seminars that federal judges may attend, and limit the expenses they may get reimbursed for attending such events.

When judges get free trips to luxury resorts, disclosure is spotty - NPR

Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did ...

Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose Attendance at Right-Wing ...

... attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school. ... For decades, judicial education programs sponsored by George Mason's ...

FAQs: Privately Funded Seminars Disclosure | United States Courts

The organization intends to invite 10 federal judges to serve on the faculty for the program, and those judges will be reimbursed for their travel expenses.

US judges' educational trips resemble 'paid luxury vacations,' group ...

Thirty-one U.S. federal appeals court judges have on 76 occasions since 2021 attended privately-funded seminars at luxury resorts, ...

Would United States Judges Benefit From More Graduate Training

22See Bruce A Green, May Judges Attend Privately Funded Educational Programs, Should Judicial Education be ... judicial positons since attending the programs ...

Judges still attending private seminars | National Law Journal

A decade ago, an environmental watchdog law firm reported a trend in corporate-funded junkets that sent federal judges to free seminars in ...

"Judicial Ethics and Policy" by Bruce A. Green - Fordham Law

Bruce A. Green, May Judges Attend Privately Funded Educational Programs? Should Judicial Education be Privatized?: Questions of Judicial Ethics and Policy, 29 F ...

May judges attend privately funded educational programs? Should ...

Notwithstanding these expressions of concern, judicial organizations such as the Judicial Conference of the United States have permitted judges to attend ...

Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket

... attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school. ... For decades, judicial education programs sponsored by George Mason's ...

A JUDGE'S ATTENDANCE AT SOCIAL EVENTS, BAR ... - NCSC

for a private high school's capital ... attend functions sponsored by victim assistance programs, sexual assault centers, family violence.

Judges' Group Opposes Bill to Limit Seminar Participation

The judges who set policy for the federal court system voted today to oppose new limits on the ability of judges to attend privately ...

2000 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary - Supreme Court

... judges from attending privately sponsored seminars. II. Judicial ... judges' ability to attend privately funded educational programs.

JUDICIAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

The role of a judge is ever changing and, like other professions, must be supported by continuing educational programs proving targeted and varied training.

May judges attend privately funded educational programs? Should ...

Perhaps the most compelling evidence that, from judges' perspective, attendance at privately funded judicial education programs is not legally or ethically ...