Elevating Your Legal Writing: Essential Skills for Judicial Clerks and New Lawyers
Judge-Led Education: Curriculum Development for Subject Matter Experts – A Lightning Course
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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
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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)
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Judges – Spring
Designing and Presenting: A Faculty Development Workshop
Impaired Driving Case Essentials
General Jurisdiction (JS 610) – Fall
Fourth Amendment: Comprehensive Search and Seizure (JS 645) – ONLINE
Designing and Presenting: A Faculty Development Workshop
Civil Mediation: An Online 40-Hour Workshop
Decision Making (JS 618)
General Jurisdiction (JS 610) – Spring
Drugged Driving Essentials
Selected Criminal Evidence Issues: Web-Based JS 602
Drugs in America Today: What Every Judge Needs to Know
Advanced Trial Skills for Judges: Managing the Jury Trial
Taking the Bench: An Interactive, Online Course for New Judges – Fall
Ethics and Judging: Reaching Higher Ground (JS 601): Web-Based
Judicial Ethics and Social Media: A Lightning Course
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
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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
Civil Mediation
Evidence in a Courtroom Setting (JS 633)
Special Court Jurisdiction: Advanced (JS 611)
Essential Skills for Tribal Court Judges
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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
Ethical Issues in the Law: A Novel Approach (JS 619)
Evidence Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Web-Based
Administrative Law: Advanced (JS 649)
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Judicial Writing (JS 615) – ONLINE
Operation Safe Arrival: Impaired Driving Interventions for Service Members and their Families
When Justice Fails: Threats to the Independence of the Judiciary (JS 644)
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The Traffic Case: A Course for Nonlawyer Judges
Special Considerations for the Rural Court Judge: Web-Based
Advanced Evidence (JS 617) – Online
Dividing the Waters Annual Conference
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2025 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit
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Advanced Skills for Appellate Judges
Mindfulness for Judges
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Financial Statements in the Courtroom – October ONLINE
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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)
Legal Writing: Striving for Clarity
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
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The Examination of a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Violation from Roadside to Docket
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FreeWill state constitutions become the primary source of individual rights?
Faculty:
- Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. His work has won awards from the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 45 cases. In his most recent book, The Words that Made Us, Professor Amar unites history and law in a narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted.
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Scott Kafker has served on the bench since 2017. He has also served as deputy chief legal counsel to Governor William F. Weld and served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from July 2015 to August 2017. Justice Kafker taught state constitutional law at Boston College Law School from 2009 to 2015 and continues to teach and present on the topic.
- Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Robert F. Williams teaches in the Rutgers School of Law and serves as director of the school’s Center for Constitutional Studies. His books include: The Law of American State Constitutions (2009); The New Jersey State Constitution (2d Ed. 2012) and State Constitutional Law, Cases and Materials (Fourth Edition, 2006). Professor Williams’ newly released The New Jersey State Constitution is an overview of New Jersey’s constitutional history, providing an in-depth analysis of the entire constitution and detailing the many significant changes that have been made since its initial drafting.