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Director of Communications
National Center for State Courts
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Special
Issue of NCSC's
Justice System Journal Explores Judicial Ethics
Williamsburg,
VA (October 2007)—“Judicial Conduct and Ethics” is the topic
of a special issue of the National Center for State Courts’ Justice
System Journal (vol. 28, no 3).
This issue brings together prominent judges, attorneys, court
administrators, and scholars with many different perspectives on
judicial ethics, particularly in the wake of the American Bar
Association’s recently adopted Model
Code of Judicial Conduct and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in
a landmark case involving speech in judicial elections: Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002).
Two
opening articles provide valuable background information about the new
ABA Model Code of Judicial
Conduct. Five other
sections present different perspectives on specific aspects of judicial
conduct and ethics:
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Perspectives on the
New Code, including judicial disclosure and disqualification and
judicial ethics in problem-solving courts
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Perspectives on
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, including judicial free
speech in elections and the use of campaign oversight committees
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Educating for
Judicial Ethics, including ethics in the federal courts and
approaches to education on ethics
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Judicial Conduct
Commissions, including how such commissions work and the openness of
judicial conduct hearings
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Legal Notes,
including an update on 2006 judicial election litigation
Contributors
provide a wide variety of perspectives on judicial conduct and ethics.
For example, Mark I. Harrison, who served as chair of the ABA
Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, provides
valuable insight into the creation of the 2007 Model Code, and Alan B.
Morrison discusses the new code’s impact on judicial elections and
what judges may do regarding political organizations once in office.
Hon. Avern Cohn of the Eastern District of Michigan and Andrew J.
Lievense look at how federal court rules and the new ABA Model Code
diverge. Hon. Ellen F.
Rosenblum, of the Oregon Court of Appeals, takes up the topic of
educating judges on judicial ethics.
The Justice
System Journal is published three times each year by the National
Center for State Courts and is dedicated to the latest scholarship in
the field of judicial administration, broadly understood.
A single copy of the special issue on “Judicial Conduct and
Ethics” costs $13.00; one-year subscriptions to Justice
System Journal are $30.00. To
order or subscribe, please contact NCSC’s fulfillment distributor at
(888) 228-6272 (toll free) or (802) 862-0095; fax (802) 864-7626; or
e-mail ncsc.orders@aidcvt.com.
The
National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is
a nonprofit court reform organization dedicated to improving the
administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the
state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of
Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger,
provides education, training, technology, management, and research
services to the nation’s state courts. The National Center also has
offices in Denver, Colo. and Arlington, Va.
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