The Anti-Racist Courtroom: Theory and Practice
Tuition
1699
Conference Fee
439
Days
to
Course Location
Montgomery, AL
Course Fees
Tuition
$1699
Conference Fee
$439
This is a course for every judge, court administrator or lawyer who wants to take proactive steps to ensure that their courtroom is anti-racist. This course, incorporating embodied experience along with jurisprudence, is about eliminating systemic racism by taking practical steps in your own court to prevent unfair outcomes based on race. The curriculum includes history, experiential learning, cognitive science, and psychological and sociological research. Special arrangements have been made for one entire day of the course to take place at the Equal Justice Initiative Museum and Memorial with pending participation by EJI founder Bryan Stevenson. Participants will also visit Selma, Alabama.
Course $1699
Conference Fee $439
During this course, you will learn to:
- Identify sources of personal and systemic bias in their courtrooms
- Differentiate between effective and ineffective interventions
- Create or facilitate effective interventions to address bias in their courtrooms
- Lead impactful initiatives to identify and mitigate sources of bias in the legal system
Faculty:
Professor Dawn Bennett-Alexander
Professor Robert Chang
Judge Phyllis Kotey
Dr. Robert Livingston
Bryan Stevenson (tentatively scheduled)
CLE/CJE credit hour estimates* are 23 hours total credits with 2 hours of credits devoted to ethics.
This is a course for every judge, court administrator or lawyer who wants to take proactive steps to ensure that their courtroom is anti-racist. This course, incorporating embodied experience along with jurisprudence, is about eliminating systemic racism by taking practical steps in your own court to prevent unfair outcomes based on race. The curriculum includes history, experiential learning, cognitive science, and psychological and sociological research. Special arrangements have been made for one entire day of the course to take place at the Equal Justice Initiative Museum and Memorial with pending participation by EJI founder Bryan Stevenson. Participants will also visit Selma, Alabama.