Livingston Armytage

Educating Judges: Towards Improving Justice: a Survey of Global Practice. Edited Reprint with Updated Research Livingston Armytage

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Livingston Armytage has been instrumental in establishing judicial education since the early 1990s. He has specialised in judicial development and reforming justice systems in more than 50 countries around the world. His other books include: "Searching for Success in Judicial Reform Voices from the Asia Pacific Experience" (Oxford, 2009), and "Reforming Justice A Journey to Fairness in Asia "(Cambridge, 2012). He is Editor of "Judicial Education & Training," the journal of the International Organization for Judicial Training. Dr. Armytage is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney."Table of Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue to the Second Edition: 2015 1 Introduction; 2 Framing Perspective: A Global Overview; 3 Original Edition; 4 Research Methodology; 5 The Data a Significant Recent Developments; b Institutional Issues and Challenges; c Trends in Professionalising Practice; d Evolving Goals, Curricula, Methods and Approaches; e Building Knowledge Research and Evaluation; f Exchanging Knowledge Global, Regional Networks; g Information Technology Impact and Applications; h Official Development Assistance; i Globalisation of Judging and Judicial Education; 6 Conclusions Bibliography to this Prologue Preface to Original Edition; Foreword to Original Edition; PART A The Issue of Need 1 Introduction I Professionalization; II Concept of Competence; III Quest for Accountability; IV History; V Outline 2 The Need for Judicial Education I Educational Need; II Philosophical Debate 3 Judicial Selection I Criteria; II Extraneous Considerations; III Models of Selection; IV Consultation 4 Assessment of Need I Methodology and Technique; II Empirical Research; III Findings in Australia; IV Observations PART B Educational Considerations 5 Adult Learning I Application of Adult Learning Theory; II How Adults Learn; III Observations for Judicial Educators 6 Judges as Learners I Professional Development; II The Practice of Judicial Education; III Foundations of a Model of Continuing Judicial Learning PART C Effective Program Delivery 7 Frameworks of Policy and Practice I Mission, Goals and Objectives; II Formulation of Policy; III Domain; IV Standards; V Prescription; VI Educational Planning 8 Educational Evaluation I Techniques; II Methodology; III Models; IV Practice of Judicial Education; V Critique 9 Conclusions I Summing Up; II The Challenge Ahead Appendices; Bibliography to the Original Edition; Subject Index to the Original Edition." Contributor Bio:  Armytage, Livingston Livingston Armytage is a specialist in judicial and legal reform, advising governments, courts and international development agencies on improving justice systems around the world. He has worked in senior roles on substantial reform programs for major development agencies in many developing countries from Afghanistan and Azerbaijan to Haiti, Palestine, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea.