NASJE News, Spring 2009

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Futures Advisory Committee Conducts Survey

NASJE’s Futures Advisory Committee is conducting a survey of the NASJE membership, non-member judicial educators, and other judicial educational groups and organizations as to programs they have conducted and/or attended that address cutting edge/emergent issues that affect judges and other judicial branch employees and stakeholders.

Committee Chair, Judge Bob Pirraglia, said the aim of the survey is “to gather, catalog and disseminate information respecting all such programs already in place that deal with such issues so that members can evaluate and present such programs to judicial branch audiences in their states sooner rather than later.” He added, “While it is useful to suggest areas and concerns that are likely to impact judges and other court personnel in the years to come, it is better still to recommend ready-to-go programs including faculty and materials that our members can replicate with ease and swiftness.”

Judge Pirraglia listed a few such programs as examples, including The National Judicial College’s Courts and Media Center’s presentation on the use of the new modes of communication available to the courts made possible by the creative use of the internet whether the mode chosen involves blogging, engaging in chat room discussions, tele-conferencing, twittering, etc.; several ethics programs created by the Judicial Division of the ABA dealing with the new Model Code governing judicial behavior that was adopted by the Association in February, 2007 has been or is in the process of being adopted by more than the judiciaries of forty states.

The Judge said that “there was a wealth of knowledge about such programs out there and the Committee’s job was to find out about them and bring them to the attention of NASJE’s Program Committee and members. After receiving the survey responses,” he concluded, “we will e-mail the resulting catalog of existing ‘futures’ programs with faculty to the membership”.