Advanced Skills for Appellate Judges

It is anticipated that the curriculum will include such topics as:

• opinion writing;
• small group dynamics and collaborative decision-making;
• how to get the most during oral argument;
• civility and professionalism;
• ethics issues pertinent to the appellate bench;
• judicial deference to executive branch agency decisions;
• trends in judicial security;
• a re-examination of the death penalty 50 years after Furman v. Georgia;
• standards of review and writs;

This course’s faculty is comprised of experienced judges who have served in an appellate capacity and instructors who are experts in the field of writing, logic and legal reasoning.