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 Monograph

Searching for Success in Judicial Reform

Voices from the Asia Pacific Experience

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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.

 

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. 

 
      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 and the Harvard Law School.

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 26 October 2009.

 

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.

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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

"Education 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

 

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (EU, Norway)

Commissioned issues paper:
Monitoring Judicial Integrity: Lessons for Implementation of UNCAC Art.11 (July 2009)

 

 

Research Monograph

Career Intentions of Australian Law Students 1995
Livingston Armytage & Sumitra Vignaendra
 The Centre for Legal Education (1995)

 

 

Professional Journals


 
 
 

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