Publications
Monograph
Reforming
Justice
A
Journey to
Fairness in
Asia
Cambridge
University Press
in press
2012
‘Reforming Justice’
calls for justice to be repositioned more
centrally in evolving notions of equitable
development.
Justice
is fundamental to human wellbeing and essential
to development.
Over
the past fifty years, however, development has
grappled with the challenge of improving ‘the
rule of law’ with underwhelming and often dismal
results.
There
is an imperative for a
paradigm shift in development agencies which
have supported legal and judicial reforms as
being instrumental to aggregate economic growth
or good governance, but indifferent to concerns
about equity and distribution.
Building on new evidence from Asia, Livingston
Armytage argues that it is now time to realign
the approach to promote
justice as fairness and
equity.
This
important book explains why and how.

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Monograph
Searching for Success in
Judicial Reform
Voices from
the Asia Pacific Experience
Click here to read the introduction
Armytage L.
and Metzner L.
(Editors)
Oxford University Press 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-806077-2.
This unique and timely volume presents the
collective reform experience of some of the Asia
Pacific region’s most skilled judges, court
administrators, legal scholars and researchers.
The publication comprises provoking analyses of
recent judicial reform programmes undertaken by
a cross-section of Forum countries, with
contributions from: Deputy Chief Justice Prof Dr
Paulus Lotulung, Indonesia; Justice Dr Ananda
Bhattarai, Nepal; Justice Kim Sathavy, Cambodia;
Prof Dr Mohan Gopal, India; Prof Myrna Feliciano,
Philippines; Ms Ayesha Dias, India and Sri
Lanka; Ms Zenaida Elepano, Philippines; Ms Anita
Jowitt, Vanuatu; Mr Ly Tayseng, Cambodia; Mr
Aria Suyudi, Indonesia; and Mr Hari Phuyal,
Nepal.
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These papers provide a wealth of insights
relevant across the region
that address many of the modern challenges of
justice: exclusion, delay, corruption and
incompetence. Analysis of this experience
indicates the existence of ten themes, or
overarching challenges, which have confronted
the passage of judicial reform over recent
years. These relate to goals, leadership,
independence, capacity for change, training,
integration, community, donors, data and
results. Any serious contemplation of judicial
reform should acknowledge the challenges of
practice evidenced in the experience of authors
in this collection.
Understanding of judicial reform has evolved
over recent years, in line with international
development assistance and the growing
recognition that the policy, governance and
institutional dimensions play crucial roles in
shaping development. Economic thinking has
traditionally prevailed to cast the state, and
the judiciary as a key institution, in an
instrumentalist role to support development of
markets. More recently, this approach is
yielding to growing recognition of the
imperative to evolve a more human-centred
pro-poor vision for judicial reform. At the
same time, understanding and appreciation of the
complexity of the political economy environment
has also deepened with this experience.
Donors’ continuing support for judicial reform
reflects the growing recognition of the
importance of justice to societal wellbeing, and
is on what may be fairly be described as a
continuing journey of development
understanding. Over the past decade in
particular, many countries in the region have
laid important but as yet uneven foundations in
judicial reform which are characterised by both
their development merit and their greater
potential. These foundations, and their
fragility, are to be appreciated by citizens,
governments, donors and reform practitioners
alike.
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Monograph
Educating Judges*
Introduced by Sir Anthony Mason,
Chief Justice of Australia 1987-1995
Kluwer Law International (London, Boston,
The Hague), 1996
This seminal monograph provides a
comprehensive study of judicial education,
and forms a part of major collections around
the world, including the
Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford,
Harvard Law School
and the
University of Sydney.
Chief Justice of
Australia, Robert French,
quoted from "Educating
Judges"
in his paper at The Fourth International
Conference on the Training of the Judiciary,
Sydney 6 October 2009. |
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Judicial education is new to the common
law tradition of judging. During the past
twenty years, the education of judges has
become a matter of considerable prominence
and debate in the United States, Britain,
Canada and Australia, most recently prompted
by media complaints of gender and racial
bias. This work researches the underlying
issues through a comparative analysis of
experience across the common law world. The
author explores the need for judicial
education and how it should be provided. He
argues that judicial education is a
distinctive process, owing to the imperative
for judicial independence and a number of
educational considerations. The work offers
a model approach for educating judges and
provides analysis, reasoned insights and
practical assistance for judges and
educators to guide future endeavour.
*This publication is
available at the following site
- click here
What experts have said about
"Educating Judges"
"A comprehensive
review of judicial education ... an extremely
valuable work which will enhance our understanding
of issues which are likely to be of critical importance
in the near future."
Sir Anthony Mason, Chief Justice of Australia
1987 - 1995
"Educating Judges" by Livingston Armytage is truly
a seminal work which sets the best practice for
the field. I found the author’s comprehensive
review of judicial education to be invaluable in
my own doctoral research. Livingston has provided
a much needed resource for judicial educators,
researchers and academicians interested in the
education, training and development of judicial
officers where otherwise there is a significant
void in research and scholarship."
Dr
Charles A. Ericksen,
former Vice President, National Center for State
Courts,
Williamsburg Virginia,
USA
"A most masterly
survey of the field ... and could influence the
way we are thinking about (judicial education) in
this country.""
Professor Martin Partington, Dean of Law, University
of Bristol;
Member, Judicial Studies Board, England
"Thorough,
well argued and comprehensive in its review of
the literature ... it offers substantial insight
at many points ... an important addition to the
literature of this just-emerging field."
Professor John K. Hudzik, Dean, International
Studies, Michigan State University; Director, Judicial
Education Research & Information Technology
Transfer Project
"A substantial
piece of work ... and a significant contribution
to the body of knowledge of judicial education.""
Professor Peter Sallmann, Executive Director,
Australian Institute of Judicial Administration
"...
sophisticated
and mature treatment of a vital area of public
education."
J. E. Thomas, Robert Peers
Emeritus Professor of Adult Education, University
of Nottingham
"Invaluable
... contains a wealth of material and references."
Judge John Goldring, District Court of New South
Wales; Dean, School of Law, University of Wollongong
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PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
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Evaluation, (2011)
vol. 17(3): 261-276
Judicial reform in Asia: case study of ADB's
experience: 1990-2007
Hague
Journal on the Rule of Law, (2011) vol. 3:
70-105
Journal of Development
Effectiveness, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2010,
442-467
This
case study evaluates the experience of
Australia’s aid agency (AusAID) in supporting
bilateral judicial reform in Papua New Guinea
through its Law and Justice Sector Program
between 2003 and 2007.
Click here
for the full article
Legal and judicial reform
performance monitoring: the PNG approach
The European Journal of Development
Research, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2008, 141-157,
co-authored with Steve Miller
Justice in Afghanistan -
Rebuilding Judicial Competence after the
Generation of War
Heidelberg Journal of International Law,
HJIL/ZaöRV 67 (2007), 185-210
Governance and Social
Development Resource Centre
Monitoring Performance of
Legal and Judicial Reform in International
Development Assistance - Early Lessons from Port
Moresby & Phnom Penh
International Bar association Chicago Showcase,
Judicial Reform: Economic Development and the
Rule of Law, 18 September 2006
Governance and Social Development Resource
Centre
Click here for IBA Daily
News
Training of Judges:
Reflections on Principle and International
Practice
European Journal of Legal Education, 2005
2(1) EJLE 21-38
Pakistan’s Law & Justice
Sector Reform Experience - Some Lessons
Law, Social
Justice and Global Development Journal,
University of Warwick (LGD) 2003 (2)
The GRC Exchange 2004
The
Governance Resource Centre (GRC),
UK Department for International
Development (DFID)
Pakistan's Judicial Reform
Program
Australian Law Journal (May 2001)
Judicial
Education as an Agent of Leadership and Change:
Lessons from Common and Civil Law Experience
The Judicial Journal of the Supreme Court of the
Philippines (PHILJA) Vol. 5, Issue No. 15,
January 2003
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Performance Indicators - Evaluating
Judicial Education
International Bar Association Newsletter
(May 1998); IBA Judges' Forum Newsletter 6,1,
September 1998; and, National Association of
State Judicial Educators News 13, Spring 1998
- Judging: an Occupation and Skills
Analysis - Implications for Educators
National Association of State Judicial Educators
News 11, 3, Fall 1996
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Judicial Education on
Equality - with particular reference to gender
and ethnicity
The Modern Law Review, 1995, 58, 160-186
- Founding Editor, The Judicial Review
Judicial Commission of New South Wales,
Sydney, 1992-5
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Need for Continuing Judicial
Education
University of New South Wales Law Journal,
1993, 16, 536-584
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Towards Professionalism in Continuing
Legal Education - Some Questions of Policy and
Practice
Journal of Professional Legal Education,
1990, 8, 139-148
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Evaluating the Impact of Judicial
Education
Journal of Judicial Administration, 1995,
4, 1,
143-170
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Policy Development in Continuing Judicial
Education: An Assessment of Some Approaches
Taken in New South Wales, United States, United
Kingdom and Canada
Journal of Professional Legal Education,
1993, 11, 1, 51-78
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Continuing Judicial Education: The
Education Program of the Judicial Commission
of New South Wales
Journal of Judicial Administration, 1993,
3, 1, 28-46
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New South Wales, Australia Mentoring
Profile
Catlin DW, Mentoring in
the Judiciary, Lansing, Michigan: JERITT Monograph
2, 1992, 52-59
Training for New Judges
Judicial Officers' Bulletin, 1995, 6, 10,
73-79
A Review of Aspects
of the Specialist Accreditation Program of the
Law Society of New South Wales
Centre for Legal Education Sydney, Australia
                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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