Elevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Judges – Fall
General Jurisdiction (JS 610) – Fall
Selected Criminal Evidence Issues: Web-Based JS 602
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for all Judges and Lawyers: A Comprehensive Course
Fundamentals of Evidence: Web-Based – Spring
The Traffic Case: A Course for Nonlawyer Judges
Judicial Writing (JS 615)
Fundamentals of Evidence: Web-Based
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Judges – Spring
Designing and Presenting: A Faculty Development Workshop
Impaired Driving Case Essentials
Civil Mediation
General Jurisdiction (JS 610) – Fall
Judicial Academy – A Course for Aspiring Judges
Best Practices in Handling Cases with Self-Represented Litigants
Fourth Amendment: Comprehensive Search and Seizure (JS 645) – ONLINE
Designing and Presenting: A Faculty Development Workshop
Civil Mediation: An Online 40-Hour Workshop
General Jurisdiction (JS 610) – Spring
Ethics, Fairness, and Security in Your Courtroom and Community
Mindfulness for Judges
Drugs in America Today: What Every Judge Needs to Know
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Judges – Fall
Handling Inquiries from the Media: A Primer for Judges
An Ethical Approach to the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
When Science Comes to Court: Self-Study Course on Forensic Evidence
Judicial Academy TribalElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Special Court Jurisdiction: Advanced (JS 611)
Fundamentals of Evidence: Web-Based – Fall
Administrative Law: Fair Hearing (JS 612)
Human Trafficking in Indian Country
Court Management for Tribal Judges and Personnel
Civil Mediation
Advanced Evidence (JS 617)
Special Court Jurisdiction
Strengthening the Foundation of a Tribal Court: A Self-Study Course for Court Administrators
Drugged Driving Essentials
Special Court Jurisdiction: Advanced (JS 611)
Essential Skills for Tribal Court Judges
Strengthening the Foundation of a Tribal Court: A Self-Study Course for Court Clerks
Mini-Course Administrative LawElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Evidence Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Web-Based – Fall
Ethical and Procedural Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Handling Complex Issues and Cases
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Administrative Law Judges
Evidence Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Web-Based
Evidence Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Web-Based
Administrative Law: Advanced (JS 649)
New MilitaryElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Judicial Writing (JS 615) – ONLINE
Operation Safe Arrival: Impaired Driving Interventions for Service Members and their Families
Decision Making (JS 618)
Selected Criminal Evidence Issues: Web-Based JS 602
Advanced Trial Skills for Judges: Managing the Jury Trial
Ethics and Judging: Reaching Higher Ground (JS 601): Web-Based
Conversations on Racial Justice Special CourtsElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
The Traffic Case: A Course for Nonlawyer Judges
Special Considerations for the Rural Court Judge: Web-Based
Evidence in a Courtroom Setting (JS 633)
Dividing the Waters Annual Conference
Lecture AppellateElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
2025 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit
Advanced Skills for Appellate Judges
Judicial Academy – A Course for Aspiring Judges
Advanced Skills for Appellate Judges
Mindfulness for Judges
2024 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit
Ethical Issues in the Law: A Novel Approach (JS 619)
When Justice Fails: Threats to the Independence of the Judiciary (JS 644)
water International Symposium TrafficElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Impaired Driving 2024: What’s New?
Advanced Evidence (JS 617) – Online
60th Web CourseElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Financial Statements in the Courtroom – October ONLINE
Judicial Ethics and Social Media: A Lightning Course
Leadership WebinarElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Screening & Assessment, and Motivational Interviewing: Applying Treatment Court Principles in Your Non-Treatment-Court Docket
Dealing with Sovereign Citizens (and maybe a few other difficult litigants)
Understanding and Navigating Tech-Enabled Trauma
Coaching for Judicial Excellence: Balancing Law, Ethics, and Humanity
Emerging Issues in Digital Safety
The Evolving Landscape of Image-Based Sexual Abuse
TribalWebinar Web Self-StudyElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Search & Seizure in Impaired Driving Adjudication: A Self-Study
The Examination of a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Violation from Roadside to Docket
Effectively Communicating with Families That Have Missing or Abducted Children Self-Study Course
A Thoughtful Approach to Racially Impartial, Research-Based Sentencing
DWI Court Enhancement: A Self-Study Web Course
Probate Matters: A Self-Study Online Course
FreeElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Legal Writing: Striving for Clarity
Justice Robert H. Jackson Lecture with Hon. Diane Humetewa
Lightning CourseElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Judge-Led Education: Curriculum Development for Subject Matter Experts – A Lightning Course
Crafting Effective Learning Objectives – A Lightning Course
Are Per Se Standards for Enforcing Marijuana-Impaired Driving Scientifically Legitimate? A Lightning Course
An Overview of Afrocentric Facial Feature and Skin Tone Bias in Criminal Law – A Lightning Course
Evidence-Based Practices: A Judge’s Guide to Pretrial Detention for Non-Violent Offenders – A Lightning Course
Tribal Online Self-Study Across the CountryElevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Advanced Bench Skills: Self-Represented Litigants
The Antiracist Courtroom
Advanced Criminal Law
Restorative Justice
The Antiracist Courtroom & Reducing Disparity Through Nontraditional Diversion
Animal LawJudicial Renaissance IV – Portugal
Previous Judicial Renaissances have been held in Bordeaux, France; Seoul, South Korea; and Athens, Greece
Tuition covers course fees, a cultural activity and group dinner, and breakfast and lunches. Tuition does not include airfare, lodging or other dinners.
The National Judicial College’s Judicial Renaissance course is an innovative and transformative experience for the judiciary. It’s an intellectual retreat that transcends the boundaries of conventional legal education, immersing judges in the deep and diverse currents from which the law itself has emerged. Here, participants will traverse the vast landscapes of history, philosophy, the arts, humanities, and sciences, uncovering the rich tapestry that informs the very essence of jurisprudence.
This is more than just a study program—it’s an intellectual odyssey that rekindles the ageless pursuit of wisdom and justice. It’s a conclave where legal minds come to learn from the past and grasp the big ideas shaping our future. With guidance from a cadre of luminaries across varied disciplines, judges will explore enduring human achievements and the foundational principles of justice.
In joining the Judicial Renaissance course, judges are not merely expanding their legal expertise; they are embarking on a quest to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of the human condition. It’s an invitation to be part of a community that values lifelong learning and to contribute to a dialogue that elevates the administration of justice to its noblest form. This course isn’t just an education; it’s an inspiration—a chance to engage with the big ideas revolutionizing our world and to reaffirm one’s vocation to serve the timeless cause of justice.
This course may be eligible CJE credit hours. Due to the international scope of this course, and collaboration with other international schools of judicial training, NJC cannot predict the number of CLE/CJE credits that will be approved by your state.
Registration fee includes: tuition fees, cultural activity (including a dinner), lunches. Registration does not include: airfare, lodging or dinner (except for the social activity) or other meals outside of course hours.
Registration is first come, first served. Given the significant interest, we recommend you register early.
Deadline to register for Judicial Renaissance IV is July 31, 2024, but may close earlier if all seats are filled.Â