The Law and Culture Series - keynotes and seminars

 

1. The Art of Judging - keynotes and seminars

2. America's Criminal Justice System / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

3. America's Civil Justice System / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

4. America's Judiciary / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

5. America's Model / Post-Dictatorship Legal Reform in Chile, Russia, and Spain - keynotes and seminars

 

 

1. The Art of Judging - keynotes and seminars

Whether a keynote for civic groups or bench and bar associations, or a seminar for judges, The Art of Judging offers an affectionate, critical, and provocative examination of the judge's art. 

• How can a busy trial judge help every citizen -- lawyer, litigant, victim, witness, defendant -- feel that he or she has been treated with courtesy and respect? 

• How can judges better understand their own strengths and weaknesses, their own communication styles, and their own biases?

• How can judges present their decisions, oral and written, so they clearly and compassionately convey the law for lawyers and non-lawyers alike?

• How can judges better understand the non-legal subjects often surrounding the legal issues they must resolve?

• How can judges most carefully address cases requiring compromise or mediation?

• How can judges most thoughtfully decide cases where the precedents seem uncertain or conflicting? 

• How can judges most artfully blend legal clarity and decisiveness with the human touches needed to reach out to all?

Based on ten years on the trial bench and twelve years on the appellate bench, Judge Schudson seeks to help judges answer these questions and more.

 

2. America's Criminal Justice System / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

Based on seven years as a state and federal prosecutor, ten years as a juvenile and criminal court judge, and twelve years as an appellate judge, Judge Schudson provides provocative analyses of America's criminal justice system -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

 

3. America's Civil Justice System / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

Based on twenty-two years as a trial and appellate judge, and subsequent years as Senior Counsel at a leading law firm, Judge Schudson provides provocative analyses of America's civil justice system -- the good, the bad, and  the ugly.

 

4. America's Judiciary / An Insider's Critique - keynotes and seminars

Based on twenty-two years as a trial and appellate judge, Judge Schudson provides provocative analyses of America's judiciary -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

 

5. America's Model / Post-Dictatorship Legal Reform in Chile, Russia, and Spain -keynotes and seminars

Based on study and teaching in Chile, Russia, and Spain from 1996 to 2005, Judge Schudson provides provocative analyses of the process and substance of legal reform in post-dictatorship societies.  Most particularly, he explores: 

• Russia, organized crime and its deadly worldwide consequences, and the courageous Russian efforts to introduce the rule of law

• Chile and Spain and their innovative efforts to synthesize American and other legal traditions with their own.

 
I The Politics and Presidents Series

I-1 Tippecanoe and Who -- An Affectionate History of American Presidential Campaigns - keynotes and seminars

I-2 Pestering the Presidents / Political Cartooning - Past, Present, and Persistent - keynotes and seminars